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Old 04-19-2007, 02:04 AM
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Ten Chips Down
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It takes FAR more faith to construct and maintain the concept of a deity than not.

Religion rests the whole of its foundation upon faith, ideally never questioned. Transubstantiation of bread into flesh and wine into blood. Miraculous healings. Go thou and "sin" no more. An angry God who drowns 99% of his creation. Sends locusts to devour harvests. Asks Abraham to sacrifice his son as a test of love for this God. Virgin births.

Seventy-two virgins awaiting the martyr for a fringe Islamic cause.

Such is the stuff which springs from blind faith.

Faith and reason are forever incompatible. While science requires investigation and application of reason, faith and religion scoff at these intellectual freedoms, oftentimes holding the free use of man's intellect as an affront to God when that thinking runs afoul of the given faith.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no evidence that Christianity is any more valid than the myriad of other religions across the world and across the ages. (Hinduism predates Christianity by twenty-five centuries!)

As I touched upon, there are real dangers with having organized religions in the world, and when I post again we'll have an in-depth look at why.

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