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The Advent of Religious Search Engines
Beetle B. writes "Do Google search results contradict your religious views? Tired of getting pornographic results and worried you'll burn in Hell for it? Are you Christian? Try SeekFind — 'a Colorado Springs-based Christian search engine that only returns results from websites that are consistent with the Bible.' Muslim? Look no further: I'm Halal. Jewish? Jewogle is for you. NPR ran a story on the general trend of search engines cropping up to cater to certain religious communities. I wonder how many other 'filtered' search engines exist out there to cater to various groups (religious or otherwise) — not counting specialized searches (torrents, etc)."
"Sorry Junior, you'll have to go to that blasphemous town library to research your report on dinosaurs, because in this household the Internet remains pure and as God intended!"
Just realised that this is a silly example anyway, as fanatical Christians wouldn't allow their kid to go to a school that was unholy enough to teach them about dinosaurs, the fossil record or how the we all evolved from a common ancestor with those damn dirty apes.
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Actually, atheists are usually much more superstitious than believers.
in the end (that's where we get it all the time anyway), we'll continue to be informed that we came from monkeys, & they (corepirate nazi illuminarians) didn't (they arrived on chariots of fire, blah blah blah). guess whois supposed to survive/escape the escalating holycost? talk about a fixed (?human?) race. don't forget to look up; deception, coercion misrepresentation (?false ?gods??) etc... on the 'new' search engine.
meanwhile (time gets more important when one has less to spend); the corepirate nazi illuminati is always hunting that patch of red (see also; organized religion/southern baptist, tony blair etc...) on almost everyones' neck. if they cannot find yours (greed, fear ego etc...) then you can go starve. that's their (slippery/slimy) 'platform' now. see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder
never a better time to consult with/trust in our creators. the lights are coming up rapidly all over now. see you there?
greed, fear & ego (in any order) are unprecedented evile's primary weapons. those, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' life0cidal hired goons' agenda. most of our dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'wars', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid schemes. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & any notion of prosperity for us, or our children. not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one, & the terminal damage to our atmosphere (see also: manufactured 'weather', hot etc...). see you on the other side of it? the lights are coming up all over now. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be your guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. we now have some choices. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on your brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
"The current rate of extinction is around 10 to 100 times the usual background level, and has been elevated above the background level since the Pleistocene. The current extinction rate is more rapid than in any other extinction event in earth history, and 50% of species could be extinct by the end of this century. While the role of humans is unclear in the longer-term extinction pattern, it is clear that factors such as deforestation, habitat destruction, hunting, the introduction of non-native species, pollution and climate change have reduced biodiversity profoundly.' (wiki)
"I think the bottom line is, what kind of a world do you want to leave for your children," Andrew Smith, a professor in the Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, said in a telephone interview. "How impoverished we would be if we lost 25 percent of the world's mammals," said Smith, one of more than 100 co-authors of the report. "Within our lifetime hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions, a frightening sign of what is happening to the ecosystems where they live," added Julia Marton-Lefevre, IUCN director general. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives."--
"The wealth of the universe is for me. Every thing is explicable and practical for me .... I am defeated all the time; yet to victory I am born." --emerson
no need to confuse 'religion' with being a spiritual being. our soul purpose here is to care for one another. failing that, we're simply passing through (excess baggage) being distracted/consumed by the guaranteed to fail illusionary trappings of man'kind'. & recently (about 10,000 years ago) it was determined that hoarding & excess by a few, resulted in negative consequences for all.
consult with/trust in your creators. providing more than enough of everything for everyone (without any distracting/spiritdead personal gain motives), whilst
Well, at least we don't just place blind faith in what someone tells us and consider it the truth without further investigation. ;)
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
An atheist is someone who puts belief in gods on the same level as belief in magic and belief in leprechauns.
Yes, but there's lots of kinds of agnostic. All it means is a state of not knowing. Some agnostics ("hard") believe that god is unknowable while "soft" agnostics believe that there may or may not be a god (some believe that there is, some don't have a firm opinion) and that they don't know god. Some agnostics think that no human knows God, but that he is knowable. And so on.
the only thing you can say for sure is that Xtifr does not know what atheist means — the belief that there is no God. That is substantially different from requiring substantial proof. Indeed, it is a highly unscientific view. The scientific view is to regard God as either unknown, unknowable, or outside the dominion of science, depending on where you stand.
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A Return to the Dark Ages and self censorship....
How long until these groups return to the "If we don't acknowledge it, it don't exist" views ?
Oh, it's like that already isn't it...mmmk.
End of Line.
E.g abortion laws
You think murder is only a subject of religion? No wonder theists find atheists to be so terrifying.
Of course, what you're really trying to say is that only theists would consider an unborn baby to be a life. That's absolutely ridiculous. One need not be religious to hold that view, and certainly not all religions hold it.