Peace
Posted: Sat 17 Nov , 2012 12:56 am
Let's pray for peace in Gaza/Israel, even if you don't believe in (a) god.
Pinky wrote:Praying won't help. Religion is one of the major causes why this region has been at war for hundreds of years.
Pinky wrote:Praying won't help. Religion is one of the major causes why this region has been at war for hundreds of years.
Even the Palestinian people fought against each other some time agoTodori wrote:The problem is, that they dont have the same religion.
Scepticism is the prime duty for anyone with a free will and an open mind. You shouldn't just believe in things because someone else told you to do so. You should always be sceptical and come to your own conclusions based on rational evidences. Here are some words from the British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell you might want to think about:Todori wrote:A world without belief and hope isn't a place i want to live (there allways is something to trust in).
You guys are just so skeptical.
and further:Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
Blind believe in religion has oppressed the scientific and cultural evolution of mankind for a long time. Just imagine where we could stand right now if we wouldn't have wasted a lot of time during the Middle Ages.My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.