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Originally posted by soup sandwich
But at a deeper level, I don't think the God-stuff should be taught in a classroom because it just isn't scientifically useful. The "God just makes it happen" theory is intellectually lazy and is no use to the scientist at the lab bench.
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Faith should be studied in some class. Its an amazing concept when you think about it, and really... what concept has had more of an effect on our history?
Faith is a brilliant lie. Its telling people to believe the opposite of everything around them, everything their senses and common ssense tell them is probably true. And then it tells them that the more they are faced with facts disproving what they believe, the more they must believe the improbable stories the Church tells them to believe.
And the kicker - and this is where the lie of faith is truly brilliant - is that it plays on man's fear of death. The religious leaders unilaterally deem themselves fiunctionaries of God and tell people that to reject them is to reject God and go to Hell. Because there's no way to disprove the fantastic story these religious leaders sell, the masses are left to choose between belief or damnation.
The world would be a lot different if 3000 years ago, a scientist started a church, claimed he knew God, and told people that if they didn't believe what science uncovered, they'd die and go to hell.
We'd all be a lot better off.
Some people are just too fucking stupiud to think for themselves and need somebody else to give them a little fantasy world of beliefs to make them feel like its all going to be ok.
It won't. The faithful, the faithless and the agnostic... we all go to the same place in the end. And we all know it.
