On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At one time the human race was knowledgeable enough to construct the >> Antikythera Mechanism, but 200 years after it was made Jesus was born and >> started a major world religion, and 630 years after Jesus Mohamed was born >> and started another major world religious; and by the time Mohamed died >> we'd lost over 90% of our smarts. Actually there is some truth in what you >> say, certainly during Mohamed's lifetime nobody on the planet knew how to >> make something like the Antikythera Mechanism, a device that was made >> nearly a thousand years before. >> I said it before I'll sat it again, religion makes people stupid. >> > > > Not religion, but the imposition of a religion to others, > Until just a couple of centuries ago the 2 things were virtually synonymous, and even today it remains true for hundreds of millions of people, especially in the Islamic world. > that is made possible by the separation of religion from science > Religion is made possible by the separation of critical thinking from the population, that's why critical thinking was illegal and punishable by death in the past, and still is in many places. > You have never refute my argument that (strong) atheism is de facto ally > with the Churches against reason. > Let me see if I understand you correctly, you believe I have not spent enough time refuting your monumentally silly "argument" that atheist is just a slight variation of Christianity. Did I get that right? John K Clark > -- 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.
