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EXACTLY! There was no science, they were doing the best they could.
Yes, today people are dumber. We are actually declining instead of improving. Those that see themselves as smart have left behind a religion based on a deity, but many have simply replaced the silly belief system with another equally silly system not based on a deity.
Care to suggest what that "silly system" is?
Hint: non-belief is not a belief system, just like bald is not a hair style.
I would love to see a change. BTW, I know no one that gets pleasure by seeing a segment of the population that is disenfranchised. When I walk by homeless people in Washington DC I wish they were not there. Why would I do something that contributes to homelessness. Last time I visited San Francisco the homeless were unbearable and very numerous. I witness public defecation, it was disgusting. Who benefits from this homeless in San Francisco? Do you know? Who has been running the city for the last 30 years? Who has been running Baltimore and Detroit for the last 50 years?
No. It is not about, "I would love to see a change". It is about what do you do, or what have you done, to bring about change. You're waiting for someone to do the heavy lifting...or even the light lifting. And this is too often the way many christians think...I don't have to do anything, I'll wait for god to do it.
Hint: non-belief is not a belief system, just like bald is not a hair style.
The 3rd dictionary definition of religiosity describes people that have heightened fervor for a non deity cause, see bold.
religious adjective
re·li·gious | \ ri-ˈli-jəs \
Definition of religious (Entry 1 of 2)
1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
a religious person
religious attitudes
2: of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances
joined a religious order 3a: scrupulously and conscientiously faithful
b: FERVENT, ZEALOUS
Those that are hyper religious regarding a "non deity cause" can be as illogical as those that worship a deity.
Critics see in the social justice movement's occasional excesses and frequently overheated rhetoric something more than misguided enthusiasm — they see literal derangement. Last year, Jonathan Haidt co-authored a much-discussed Atlantic cover story on the crisis (“The Coddling of the American Mind”) that used the structure of cognitive behavioral therapy to diagnose American colleges as having the same tendencies as someone with a mental illness (“blaming,” “negative filtering,” “dichotomous thinking”). Like A Prayer: Is Social Justice The New Campus Religion? - MTV.
No. It is not about, "I would love to see a change". It is about what do you do, or what have you done, to bring about change. You're waiting for someone to do the heavy lifting...or even the light lifting. And this is too often the way many christians think...I don't have to do anything, I'll wait for god to do it.
I am not a politician or an activist Phet. All I can do is observe. Many cities with a religious fervor like yours regarding these issues have failed. And they have failed on their own with no outside intervention. As usual they blame the past. They have squandered resources because they are not using logic. A new paradigm is in other
I am not a politician or an activist Phet. All I can do is observe. Many cities with a religious fervor like yours regarding these issues have failed. And they have failed on their own with no outside intervention. As usual they blame the past. They have squandered resources because they are not using logic. A new paradigm is in other
Hint: non-belief is not a belief system, just like bald is not a hair style.
Oops, I need to add. There is nothing wrong with atheism. I am an agnostic. The issue is that some replace Christianity with a silly non-deity based religion. Atheism is not a religion. These folks simply add a ton of useless view.
Oops, I need to add. There is nothing wrong with atheism. I am an agnostic. The issue is that some replace Christianity with a silly non-deity based religion. Atheism is not a religion. These folks simply add a ton of useless view.
The line we cross is when we have to shave our heads everyday to keep it a high and tight bald.
We can be in a room full of naturally bald. But if I am shaving it, tending it, keep it shinny, everyday because I am going to show those people with hair that they aint so special. Then its a hairstyle.
An online discussion forum is a very poor place to assess how anyone is "walking their talk," L8. Additionally, each individual has pragmatic limitations and constraints on their ability to impact or correct ANY societal inequities. Most of the PC verbalizations of support for whatever cause is discussed are mere virtue signaling anyway.
I agree. It's also a poor place to decide you know everything about someone like Phet but that doesn't stop you.
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