Steven Weinberg wrote
On 20 Apr 2014, at 06:59, LizR wrote:
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would
have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil
things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
-- Steven Weinberg
Of course, we can guess that he meant "that takes institutionalized
religion".
I can conceive a religion which takes seriously the "non-naming"
attribute of god, defended in theory by many religion, but of course
in theory only the day they are institutionalized.
Tradition and institutions are for the non-believer only, and
eventually it kill the rest of faith that some people can have.
For good people doing bad things, you need misinformation (like in
Rwanda, or in Europa), you need propaganda (like with prohibition).
You need some brainwashing, you need manipulation, authoritative
argument, fear exploitation, violence, ... All things that many would
qualify as non-religious in the extreme.
Bruno
On 20 April 2014 16:54, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/19/2014 9:01 PM, Samiya Illias wrote:
Including Uri Geller, UFOs, a thousand people who want to "prove
Einstein wrong", Borley Rectory, the people trying to sell me
something from Nigeria, the Loch Ness monster, Ouija boards, Thor,
Zeus, Odin and so on - yes, no doubt one shouldn't dismiss
anything, but life's too short not to prioritise.
Too short, yes! Prioritize, yes! Especially because if there is a
purpose to this life, and especially if there is more to life after
death, and if this short life is but a test, whose result is
eternal, then we better study earnestly. Difficult, yes,
impossible, no!
"It's an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe
something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations
with all their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."
---- Gloria Steinem, women's rights activist
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