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=> Re: Dawkins' Agnosticism

Re: Dawkins' Agnosticism
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, March 3 2012, 12:04:18 (UTC)
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Arrow wrote:
> there have been 30,000 gods claimed by the human race, at least...and we have shed almost each and every one of them along the way
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>Those 30,000 were different names referring to only one concept that has not been shed yet: a transcendental, supernatural intelligence. All ancient civilizations believed in that. They differed, however, over the name and the attributes of the deity.

...that's something YOU say in retrospect...but not one of those groups would have agreed with you. You may like to say that Allah and Yahew and Jesus and his father are all the same "concept"...but none of those followers of their own god would agree with you...hell, they couldn't even agree on ONE Jesus but went right on killing each other over the SAME god....this is merely sophistry after the fact.

...ancient civilizations believed in lots of things we no longer credit...Venus and Isthar and Thor are very different from Allah...the NEED for a big brother may have always been there...but wishful thinking is wishful thinking...murder has "always been a need"...so has rape...and yes, they have all been frowned upon through the ages and yet they are still around. The persistence of an idea, whether a god or a killing has little to say for its validity...the human race is still stupid, what do you want me to say? But the NEED for this god business is dying out...and it was never universal, but KILLING non-believers has always been there and made it LOOK like "everyone has a need for god"....but they didn't.

There are lots of things which have remained popular through the ages...I doubt you would go along with most of them just for that.



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