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Any book of history is based upon first hand accounts of the events.
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Actually, quite a few are based on people's interpretation and perspective of events, which change over time. Also, a lot of them are based on guesses and theories, since not a single one of us was around a hundred, let alone a thousand or a million years ago.
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rather than simply accepting Thor and Zeus as the answer we actually used science to understand why these things really happened.
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And we are now better off in what fashion? I'll agree science has done a lot of wonderful things, but simple understanding of
how something happens does not always answer the question of
why something happens. And I think a lot of people put way too much concern into figuring out both sometimes.
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The facts are that if you are going to make the assertion that there is a god, you have to provide evidence to back up your supposition
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Why? While I don't agree with you, I also don't feel it's my duty to try provide you evidence of anything. I'm not pressing my beliefs on you, nor am I trying to (rather rudely) invalidate all your points with repetitive arguments. The only fact here really is that
you feel I need to supply you with some sort of irrefutable evidence, which I most certainly do not. You're free to your thoughts and beliefs. You don't have to like mine. But from your comments, you seem to think people who have some sort of faith or beliefs are idiots, which I'd wager a few bucks (Canadian or US, take your pick) is far from true.
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Religion, on the other hand collapses as evidence proves it wrong.
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Religions of the world: numbers of adherents; growth rates
As of the year 2000, approximately 2% of the world didn't have some sort of religion.
As of 2001, approximately 0.4% of the United Stats populace was Atheist, which has grown (from the sources I can find) to 1.6% by 2007:
Statistics on Religion in America Report -- Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
I think "collapse" is probably not a valid adjective to use for religion, no matter it's form, seeing as how ~98% of the population of the world has some form of belief.
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He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
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And this is exactly why I rarely go to church and am not a fan of organized religion. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this type of crap and opinion is what comes from the human input to religion, not the basis of religion itself. Not that this proves the existence or non-existence of any deity, but I think is the perfect example of exactly WHY we're in for a rough ride if we put our faith in humanity itself.
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the fear of believers and some form of blackmail by the priesthood in order to get believers to keep coming back and feeding the coffers.
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Again, not something I do or believe others should do to this sort of extreme. I fear nothing. In all honesty, I quite enjoy my life and the belief that there's something better for me afterwards. If not, again, I didn't miss a thing.
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they all rely upon the exact same thing
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All of them? Every single one of them? I'm reasonably sure this statement is pretty false.
My personal bottom line in all this is really, truly, I don't care. Evolution can be exact as it's stated. Wonderful. Everything else can be the polar opposite of what I believe. Fabulous. None of it changes my life one bit. It neither makes me a perfect nor a terrible person. I have personal beliefs, I have personal morals. I'm happy. Good enough for me.
