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To: epicure who wrote (252879)

6/16/2014 12:26:21 PM

From: koan

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That is the one that always got me. Say there is a god. Which one is the real one? There are untold thousands of gods. So what are the chances you have the right one. About the same as winning the lottery.

Or are all the gods real? Who believes that and we have already dispelled many of them. Northern lights are not spirits.

It is so silly and illogical I could not understand how highly educated people believed it? I can understand how primitive people who have no information or a developed mind can believe it, but not someone with a college degree.

So the dogma kids get at an early age sure seems to be cemented into the brain somehow?

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While I am not the atheist my parents were, I think it's unlikely that there is anything in the universe that cares about human beings. I think it's much more likely that man created God than vice versa. And there are thousands of Gods created by humans- what would the odds be you'd pick the right one? Every person who believes in one of these things would swear to you theirs is the right one (and many are willing to kill over that). Where does that sort of credulity come from? People are programmed to believe they've got the "right" idea- no matter what sort of idea it is. There are people on these threads who act like they'd like to kill other people over politics. They're absolutely certain about their beliefs (even beliefs that a little googling would show are clearly wrong). The story of humans and their beliefs is a litany of idiocy. But you don't need to believe me- just read Swift- and his story of the Big Enders and the Little Enders. Idiocy and credulity are apparently timeless.