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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: briskit who wrote (10485)	2/10/2002 10:59:44 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

It was a humorous comment on Sunday school- to which dear Greg attaches such great importance. Greg's post was silly and high handed- and I was aiming for a silly post (although based on real statistics) in a like manner. Hence the odious smiley face- which I really don't like using, but which seem necessary on the net. Ugh. But perhaps you didn't read it that way, and I'm not really sure I care. No, I don't. I suspect people who do not have adequate internal controls gravitate to the external control of religion (among other things)- which would mean you would get more people attracted to religion who were, on average, less able to control their negative impulses. But that is just my thought. Therefore religion is not "causing" anything, it is merely an attractor. Now I suspect you will read that wrong also- that is not to say that ALL people attracted to religion are attracted for those reasons, only that some people, who need external controls are. So if you come back and tell me I just said bad people are attracted to religion I will laugh at you.

To: briskit who wrote (10485)	2/10/2002 12:44:21 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"RELIGIOUS folks, fornicate more" Does this include "CALIFORNICATION",as in the Red Hot Chili Peppers song? If not, is it bad that religious folks fornicate more? Perhaps it even contributes to their emotional health, particularly if members of a sex-repressive religion? Could you offer an opinion about how such statistics would be arrived at, since I don't think such enquiries have found their way into the Census questionaire, yet? Could it be that religious people are more TRUTHFUL than agnostics and atheists, who, lacking any particular fire and brimstone outcome relative to falsehood, might be more inclined to gild the lily (or whatever part of the body might be used in "fornication"? Namaste! Jim