similarities between New Age atheists and religious nut jobs (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, January 10, 2011, 23:09 (5043 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Life has a lot more to offer my dear friend.
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> Yes, life can be celebrated all by itself, with or without religion. Religion tries to answer 'the why question', but has done so in a very unsatisfactory way so far. Since no one knows, the answers dance in every direction, and the intensely religious folks fight with each other all the time over interpretations that have no basis in fact. A lot of it is wishful thinking. But atheists are just as bad. They are attepting to prove a negative, that God does not exist, and proving a negative is extremely difficult.-Well, atheists don't prove a negative, they simply point out that God as defined in the bible is very, very, unlikely to exist. Dawkins says frequently (and he is correct) that every supernaturalistic claim against the physical world has been categorically refuted. -Though this says more about the approach to dogmatists than it does about religion at large... though it is a relatively new phenomenon, to make God the center of creation... which I must again point out takes up 2 of some 900 chapters of the Torah.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"