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Author Topic:   The slickest con ever perpetrated on mankind
crashfrog
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Message 24 of 59 (662967)
05-20-2012 5:24 PM
Reply to: Message 22 by marc9000
05-20-2012 4:59 PM


Re: Thanks for the reply, but...
Pay me now for a promise of life after death IS a con, it’s not the legitimate Christian religion.
But Christianity isn't the only religion, though, now is it?
I know you won't believe anything I say, and if I tell you X you'll consider that ample reason to believe Y - you'll do this because, frankly, you're not that smart, and believing the opposite of what your enemies believe is your only tool for cognition - but I think you're getting hung up because you see an attack on religion as an attack on Christianity.
But there's other religions. Buddhism, Islam, Shinto, Hinduism, even those goofy Ba'hai cultists. I mean, you can't believe that their religions encapsulate truth, or something. So what's the deal, there? Don't you have to look at the vast wealth amassed by their high priesthoods, the crushing poverty at the foundations, and at least suspect a con?

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crashfrog
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Message 29 of 59 (662975)
05-20-2012 7:46 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by marc9000
05-20-2012 7:35 PM


Re: Thanks for the reply, but...
It’s the main one in the western world,
Which is, by far, the least populated of the Earth's hemispheres.
it’s the one that is by far under the most attack from the scientific community.
No religion is "under attack from the scientific community."
Do you have evidence that evolutionists don’t do the exact same thing to creationists?
If all an evolutionist had to do was believe the opposite of a creationist, we wouldn't have to go to school for as long.
There are many cases where separation of church and state results is laws requiring restrictions in Christian public displays/actions, while giving a free pass to muslim displays/actions.
At most you have one or two cases you can construe as "Muslims getting a free pass", and for every example you have, I can give you the reverse - Muslims under restrictions that are never applied to Christians. Remember the "Ground Zero Mosque" that was neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero? Remember Herman Cain asserting that Muslims had no First Amendment right to construct places of worship because Islam was not "technically a religion"?
Separation of church and state applies as equally to Hindus and Muslims as it does to Christians. If that principle is not upheld, that's a failure of the secular agenda, not the result of it.
Most all discussions on these forums are about governments and religions of the western world.
I don't see any indication in Coyote's posts that he's restricted the conversation to the West.
The scientific community seldom if ever seems to refer to them, or oppose or try to change them.
Because the scientific community is engaged in a search for reliable physical models, not in a quest to oppose or change the world's religions.

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