The world to the old peeps was malevolent. Feeding kids, keeping alive, surviving diseases, weather, war, and way early on, other animals. Religion acted as a psychological survival kit, and it often still does for many. Not such a comfort for you or I, but that's what makes soccer games.
For me, the existential is ultimate, and perhaps it shouldn't be? Character flaw and all that. So I pursue the views of those willing to get into the intellectual weeds, for this. Now, this is knowing that the majority of scientists hate this because it gets in their way. They like atheism, they like when you are dead you are dead, and they like grants to pursue interesting research. For them, their neurobiology likes this pattern. Me? Not so much. On Monday, June 14, 2021 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: On 6/14/2021 2:17 PM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:05 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > New religions I hold we do not need. I hold we don't need the old religions either. > Skeptic Michael Shermer paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke, said: A sufficiently advanced alien intelligence is indistinguishable from God." Not the Christian God I hope! I love the quote by biologist Richard Dockins from his terrific book "The God Delusion". “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” Any relation to the biologist Richard Dawkins? The God of the New Testament isn't any better. Just read revelations. Brent -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/277e9caf-5e61-2132-8382-73ae73b0bdbd%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1098793675.27137.1623711015923%40mail.yahoo.com.
