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To: one_less who wrote (14571)	6/19/2007 8:01:04 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

“Man is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.” - Mark Twain, 1909 applicable to Bush and the Nuts in the Middle East

To: one_less who wrote (14571)	6/19/2007 9:02:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

His investing religious significance to extraterrestial life reminds me of that movie Contact, based on a novel by Carl Sagan. Sagan was an atheist who put great significance in space aliens. When I saw the movie, I was embarrassed for Sagan, in that this "atheist" clearly depicted his fictional space aliens as godlike or angelic beings, all wise all powerful. Just goes to show atheists are religious after all.

To: one_less who wrote (14571)	6/19/2007 11:08:42 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Einstein also said this: Religion is concerned with man's attitude towards nature at large, with the establishing of ideals for the individual and communal life, and with human mutual relationship. These ideals religion attempts to attain by exerting an educational influence on tradition and through the development and promulgation of certain easily accessible thoughts and narratives (epics and myths) which are apt to influence evaluation and action along the lines of accepted ideals. It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science. (Albert Einstein, 1948)

To: one_less who wrote (14571)	6/19/2007 11:12:18 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Albert Einstein; "Nobody, certainly, will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just, and omnibeneficent personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance; also, by virtue of its simplicity it is accessible to the most undeveloped mind. But, on the other hand, there are decisive weaknesses attached to this idea in itself, which have been painfully felt since the beginning of history. (Albert Einstein, 1941)