On 1/19/2015 10:40 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 18 Jan 2015, at 20:42, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/18/2015 6:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
With the definition you gave in a preceding post, and with which I agree,
everyone
believe in some God. The question is always: which one? And where it does
come
from, and why.
All philosophers and most scientists have some idea about what is
fundamental
reality - but (unless they are theologians) they recognize it is just a
working
hypothesis. I'd say most people don't even think about it enough to have a
definite opinion.
Well, it might be about time. Many people don't think to this, because we
abandonned
the subject to professional brainwashers since a long time.
Most people are just not interested in fundamental science. Usually people
like to
take things for granted, and dislike doubting everything, as Descartes knew
already
we have to do if we search truth.
The more I think about it, the more I doubt that these subjects were simply "abandoned"
in an innocent fashion. The problem is that beliefs about fundamental reality are at the
foundations of political power, and the powerful know this, even if only intuitively.
Of course, religion was invented as a socializing tool. God watched everybody before Big
Brother had the techology. God answered all questions and defined right and wrong.
When atheist politicians say that we must respect the Vatican, they are agreeing on some
border of power.
?? What "atheist politicians". In the U.S. an admitted atheist couldn't get elected
dog-catcher. Atheists are the only group less trusted than Muslims.
They are saying, ok we can't have absolute power but we can negotiate peace with the
Vatican.
The subtlety is that there is now a very powerful religion which has no name but is
profoundly materialistic. I think you intuit its existence, and were perhaps a victim of
it, by the suppression of your thesis.
It's the Illuminati? Richard Dawkins and Dan Dennett are out to get you?
Brent
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