Weinberg is wrong, Liz. It might have been an affront to Weinberg's dignity if and when he tried it, but not everybody. Weinberg might agree with the statement that, let us say, Transhumanism, or the Universal Dovetailer Argument is also such an indignity. I don't know why Weinberg would, but he might. There are religious scientists and engineers all over the place, so are they subjected to a great indignity? Who shall save them of this suffering, that they, themselves, are obviously, having no luck in letting go of? Just because Weinberg hates banana daiquiris, does not mean that I should.
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 -----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Apr 20, 2014 12:59 am Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate. 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 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
