Religion is a virus of your biological computer (the brain). Every holy book is psychologically engineered to play on the 3 biggest human emotions; Fear, Greed and Guilt. What are your thoughts? Also watch the video! [video=youtube;XPN3UlxCXH4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPN3UlxCXH4[/video]
Fear, Greed and Guilt. Whats wrong about it ?? Religions were created in times when man could not differentiate between good and bad. When man used to practice acts like human sacrifice, slavery, racial discrimination and more. I would not want to comment on other religions but one should take a peek into Christianity and Islam. There was a necessity to imbibe fear in the minds of people who were practicing heinous crimes. Religion was more like a constitution for the people then. Rules had to be set up to avoid inhuman acts. Few religions went aboard to draft most harsh punishments while few remained merciful. If Atheist term Jesus or Mohamed as schizophrenic, its fine. But it was because of these same people that hordes of communities did not get corrupted, they did not kill, rape, enslave each other. The corruption and misdoings of religion which are pointed out are nothing but superficial compared to the worst crimes in humanity. None of the religion teaches that a man should be killing other. If there has been ethnic cleansing, holocaust, massive exiles then those have taken place due to personal reasons veiled by religious diktats of no concern. Gods existence stems from the very existence of humanity. The only time when Atheism will be acknowledged is when nobody will care for anybody.
As if aethists does not have any of these feelings "fear , greed and guilt" . Aethism is also a religion whose motto is "Ask for money , sexual favors,etc from believers in the name of god" if religius people refuse to oblige just blast them wherever you see them . Pure Love is God , hatred is devil , like a light bulb can either be on or off , either you are trying to go towards God or by default you are going towards devil.
I'd go with fear, shame, and guilt as a better list. I agree that religions are memetic viruses, but I think the real question is how to cure them. My current thinking is that the only way to cure them is to replace them with a better virus. I am thinking that we need to create an alternative to traditional religion which is based upon science. People obviously feel fear, greed, and shame and we need to find ways to help people deal with those emotions without turning them into the animals that religion often creates.
Seqqa - Hi, we haven't met - but I greatly enjoyed your post Thanks. Will - I'd argue that the list should have four items on it; fear, greed, shame AND guilt. Of course, there is also the fact that religious people enjoy feeling superior to others; it's form of narcissism, I think. Imagine it - you and a group of others hang out once a week, talk about how you are going to heaven, you know the truth, blah blah blah - everyone else is wrong, etc. Imagine how much that would feed a superiority complex - it is in effect, mutual masturbation. it career - I know you aren't that bright given your previous post about how a rape victim is to blame if she isn't celibate or has been drinking or the like - and I understand that these views are sadly the result of your church - but honestly; do you really think that is the motto of Atheists? "Ask for sexual favors from believers in the name of god"? Really? Last I checked we didn't have a motto - we were individuals.
People just can't handle the fact that their time is limited. Which is where fear and greed start to play in the mind, they start to fear death and at the same time they want unlimited life. Humans don't like being out of control of something and death right now is one of them, we crave control and we want to control everything. Reglion just creates ideas that someone higher than you is in control of what we as humans can't control yet, and makes a false promise that everything will be ok
You don't see whats wrong with playing with someones emotions to get them to do what you want? Really? Of course we have them. The difference is we don't advantage of them to make children believe things that are untrue. Probably the most repulsive thing about religion is how they threaten children with torture to make them believe silly old stories.
And convinces them that if they're raped they are the only one to blame, as it career pointed out in an earlier post. If I didn't already hate religion, this was change my mind.
The big three???.....and the conspiracy is being conducted by whom? Not rhetorical, as our congregation does believe their is an origin of dissemination and that it just as well conducts the simplistic response to atheism as the "psychological" objective those participants also readily accept just as the religious in traveling a similar diversion - neither to find the answers they are looking for. The dilema is for everyone to answer and is the reason for beliefs with or without a God. The answer to why a person was crucified might serve both the atheist and religious similarly.
I am just ignoring a psychopath who thinks girl can have sex drugs and have sex with 10 guys one by one in a club but if eleventh guy had sex with her she should be considered as a chaste women and media , govt should hang that 11th guy and she should get millions of dollars as compensation for rape , where in reality when she is under heavy drug she will not even know who is doing with her but somehow from the video of the event if she finds out a guy who is doing her is not in her facebook list , she will call media , police and whine in a chaste tone and file a complaint and demand few millions dollars as compensation.
These are definitions of rape: * The unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. * Any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. * To force to have sexual intercourse. It is not okay to rape a woman because you don't believe she's "chaste", or because she's under the influence of a "heavy drug", or if she's wearing a low cut blouse. If a woman says no, and sex is forced, the woman is not "whining" by filing a police report.
Roman - Lol <3 Rebecca - Good post, as always. it career - Who said she should be considered chaste? I know I didn't. I personally think it's wrong to go out an have unprotected sex with 10 out of 11 guys at a club or party - BUT - does that mean the pathetic little cunt who rapes a woman because he missed out has a right to do so? The answer is a definite NO. If you believe it's a yes, you should castrate yourself - physically, not chemically - so that if you're ever that 11th guy you don't rape anyone. Or reproduce. What you also rape your daughter if she was not "chaste" and consider it right? Even godly? What about your mother or grandmother? Sickening little creep.
You are one seriously messed up human being. I can't imagine you will be running wild on the streets very long. I only hope that you aren't able to do much harm before you are sent to prison.
Honestly, get a life dude. Get educated...And I'm not talking about learning to read and write. That's called being literate (you just seem semi-literate anyway from the way you type). Rebecca has clearly given the perfect answer to this absurd post of yours. Sorry Alexis that you have to deal with such morons at DP...
Rebecca is always so spot on; I think it helps she is also far politer than most people would be in these situations while still making it 110% clear when something is absolutely NOT OK. Lol - I'm a big Rebecca fan ^-^; I appreciate the concern on my part too, thank you - sadly some of the sick freaks here are easily enraged by my posts >.<'
Can we call girls who willingly have sex with 10 guys whore ? it is obvious who is more sick creep by the amount of shit that you just typed. You just own your partner's pnis and casstrate it if you like , do not ask others to castrate.
You are out of your mind.It looks like you had an accident in your childhood deeply affecting your brain.How the hell did you attain such a reputation.If you dont believe in god do not post crap.
You can say whatever you want, but it doesn't make it true. You're just a creepy little pervert who is afraid of women. Here's an idea -- how about you go flush your head in a toilet to clean out your brain? You primitive scared little people really sicken me. There is no god. Grow up and get over it. There is no tooth fairy, no santa claus, and no allah. Deal with it.