And just to clarify... I'm criticizing religious arrogance because it is based on NOTHING. No facts of any kind. Fairy tales handed down from generation to generation.
I've got viewpoints based on facts... you say arrogance, I say simple truth.
What would be arrogant is if I was a Christian arguing with a Muslim over my religion being the "right one" because "god told me so in the bible." Neither religion is based on anything but faith.
There is animosity towards religion on the internet, because the internet attracts thinking, intelligent people who do not believe everything everyone tells them. People who are used to researching things for themselves, gathering actual FACTS, and taking very little "on faith."
Maybe they're also sick of how much death and destruction can lay it's blame on religion. How many people have died for "religious" reasons. How many scientists have been tortured by close-minded churches? (Catholics come to mind here.)
Mostly I'm turned off by the arrogance of 99% of the religions that somehow think THEY are the chosen ones.
Here's a factoid for you -- the earth's been here for 4.5 BILLION years, and Christians (a piddly 2000 years old) think they are all that and a bottle of wine.
How anything that is 2.25 MILLION YEARS YOUNGER than the planet it lives on can feel anything but small and unimportant is beyond me. But most religions fall into this category.
It seems to me that religion is for the weak. People that need something to help them when they can't think of any reason to get off their ass and do what is "right" (however you define that).
I mean, you must be a weak minded person (or one brainwashed by years of listening to your relatives) to believe something some man in a funny outfit tells you every week. And don't you christians get me started on the bible -- a book so filled with inconsistencies it should be classified as FANTASY in your local library.
I read an article in the LA Times that reported on research into a so-called "god lobe" in the brain. They noticed that people with larger and/or more active "god lobes" were more likely to be moved by spiritual/mystical experiences.
So ya see folks, this religion crap is just a chemical imbalance.
OK I'll let you off the hook now... go read a book that doesn't have BIBLE stamped on the front... all 12 of you reading this. Try picking up Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World." If you read and digest this book, you'll be much more likely to use your brain, keep a healthy level of skepticism, and perhaps not believe EVERYTHING EVERYONE tells you.
The purpose is obviously just to hack the mozilla source forever! I mean, seriously, it couldn't possibly be that rewriting 90% of a piece of software meant to surf a few protocols and parse a dozen document types takes longer than a year, right? Surely these engineers working on this project must be a bunch of glue-sniffing morons, with nothing better to do than infinitely hack away on code and listen to complainers like you.
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And just to clarify ... I'm criticizing religious
arrogance because it is based on NOTHING. No
facts of any kind. Fairy tales handed down from
generation to generation.
I've got viewpoints based on facts... you say
arrogance, I say simple truth.
What would be arrogant is if I was a Christian
arguing with a Muslim over my religion being the
"right one" because "god told me so in the bible."
Neither religion is based on anything but faith.
1. Did I say religion is unimportant?
2. "Some of my comments are foolish, and others
are wrong but understandable." Which ones and how?
3. Not thousands... try millions.
4. Religion is THE number one cause of death in
the world. Do some research.
There is animosity towards religion on the internet,
because the internet attracts thinking, intelligent
people who do not believe everything everyone
tells them. People who are used to researching things
for themselves, gathering actual FACTS, and taking
very little "on faith."
Maybe they're also sick of how much death and
destruction can lay it's blame on religion. How
many people have died for "religious" reasons. How
many scientists have been tortured by close-minded
churches? (Catholics come to mind here.)
Mostly I'm turned off by the arrogance of 99% of
the religions that somehow think THEY are the
chosen ones.
Here's a factoid for you -- the earth's been here
for 4.5 BILLION years, and Christians (a piddly
2000 years old) think they are all that and a
bottle of wine.
How anything that is 2.25 MILLION YEARS YOUNGER
than the planet it lives on can feel anything but
small and unimportant is beyond me. But most
religions fall into this category.
It seems to me that religion is for the weak. People
that need something to help them when they can't
think of any reason to get off their ass and do
what is "right" (however you define that).
I mean, you must be a weak minded person (or
one brainwashed by years of listening to your
relatives) to believe something some man in a
funny outfit tells you every week. And don't you
christians get me started on the bible -- a book
so filled with inconsistencies it should be classified
as FANTASY in your local library.
I read an article in the LA Times that reported on
research into a so-called "god lobe" in the brain.
They noticed that people with larger and/or more
active "god lobes" were more likely to be moved
by spiritual/mystical experiences.
So ya see folks, this religion crap is just a
chemical imbalance.
OK I'll let you off the hook now... go read a
book that doesn't have BIBLE stamped on the front...
all 12 of you reading this. Try picking up Carl
Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World." If you read
and digest this book, you'll be much more likely
to use your brain, keep a healthy level of
skepticism, and perhaps not believe EVERYTHING
EVERYONE tells you.
Later.
The purpose is obviously just to hack the mozilla
source forever! I mean, seriously, it couldn't possibly be
that rewriting 90% of a piece of software meant to
surf a few protocols and parse a dozen document
types takes longer than a year, right? Surely these
engineers working on this project must be a bunch
of glue-sniffing morons, with nothing better to do
than infinitely hack away on code and listen to
complainers like you.
Nah, he thinks mozilla is a joke because he's
too stupid to look into further into the mozilla.org site before taking the easy, critical, way out...