Nice Comment

Comment was by Onyango Makagutu on February 26, 2021 at 4:23am

Religion or many ideologies have internal ways of reinforcing themselves that it is hard to get out. One almost always needs external stimuli to drop a belief held from childhood.

Comment was by Mrs.B on February 25, 2021 at 1:38pm

Majority are brainwashed from birth....not many break out.

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 25, 2021 at 8:03am

I think the trouble with being a critical thinker or an atheist, or a humanist is that you're right. And it's quite hard being right in the face of people who are wrong without sounding like a fuckwit. People go, “Do you think the vast majority of the world is wrong?” Well yes, I don't know how to say that nicely, but yes.
-- Tim Minchin

An interesting and I think very accurate observation by Tim here. It reminds me of the scene in the movie Contact where Ellie Arroway is confronted with her lack of belief and it is considered a disqualifier, because the majority of the world believes in some form of god – argumentum ad populum. And is the rest of the world wrong? Personally, I have exactly ZERO reason to believe otherwise.

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 24, 2021 at 7:27am

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson [Letter to William Short, 13 April 1820]

Even Jefferson noted the contradictory nature of Jesus' preachings over 200 years ago. That his observations aren't more widely recognized in the here and now reflects the general unwillingness to evaluate Christianity without the rose-colored glasses.

Comment was by Onyango Makagutu on February 24, 2021 at 1:37am

That letter to Menoeceus is one beautiful piece of art.

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 23, 2021 at 7:49am

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
-- Coco Chanel

And that last word is the most important of all.

Comment was by Joan Denoo on February 23, 2021 at 3:14am

"death is feared, not because it is painful being made, but because of the wait is painful."

"of all the evils that gives us more horror, death is nothing to us, since we exist as ourselves, death is not, and when death exists, we are not."

~ Epicurus, Extract from the Letter to Menoeceus, https://www.the-philosophy.com/death-epicurus

Comment was by Mrs.B on February 22, 2021 at 2:15pm

Being told what to think & how to think it, never sat well with me.

Comment was by Loren Miller on February 22, 2021 at 9:29am

Indeed, Davy ... things like freedom and the right to think for yourself, come to your own conclusions and recognize when the organization which has set itself above you is doing its damnedest to limit your actions and behavior and even your thought patterns.

Had I been raised in a tradition like that, my reaction to it now would ... well, let's just say it wouldn't be pretty.

Comment was by Davy on February 22, 2021 at 8:48am

Quite agree Loren but will add sometimes one becomes an Atheist because of what Religion took away from them.

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