We'll open the presents in any minute here. To shorten your waiting time, here's the last year's thread on the topic: http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye/browse_frm/thread/8d37b9f24a311fd/f024ac7d7e7cc2ec?lnk=gst&q=mary+christmas#f024ac7d7e7cc2ec
On 24 Dez., 07:15, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is an enjoyably impudent piece of research from Innsbruck > University. People were observed buying newspapers, using an honesty > box to pay. They were interviewed later - so the person with the > clipboard seemed unconnected with the newspaper purchase - and asked > about age, occupation and attitudes. Men cheated more than women; > people over 50 cheated more than the young; higher education made no > difference; and by a long chalk churchgoers cheated most. This may be > a statistical anomaly. But we all know one thing: religion no more > makes people good than lack of it makes the rest of us bad. > > Secularists take offence too at the way the religious paint > unbelievers as poor desiccated rationalists, not only without values, > but joyless, lacking a sense of mystery, devoid of awe. Yet, > earthbound, there is enough wonder in the infinite capacity of the > human imagination, in a magical world of thought, dream, hope, memory > and fantasy. To be human is not to be particularly rational, the > senses often overwhelming common sense. There is no emotional or > spiritual deficiency in rejecting religions that infantilise the > imagination with impossible beliefs. > > The above is from Polly Toynbee - a Guardian staff writer. > Apparently, buses with atheist adverts have attracted substantial > funding of late. It's the Anglo Saxon New Year - no doubt after a > merry pagan festival we will once again ride out spreading love > (battle axes for tree chopping only!). To be fair we took on Xtianity > as rather better than our gods of fertility and war - though this > seems to have made us even more warlike. Time for a secular peace > campaign. All the best, all. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
