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Darwin’S Doubt
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Watching Steve Backshall's Extreme Mountain Challenge last night, he trapped a large wasp. He explained that this particular variety of wasp stings spiders, paralysing them, and then proceeds to lay its eggs inside the paralysed body. The hatchlings eat the spider from the inside – avoiding the vital organs in order to keep the spider alive - hence a source of fresh food is guaranteed. He said that Darwin’s discovery of this wasp and this process caused him to doubt the existence of a beneficent God.
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"Coming from an atheist background, I had an easier time accepting Islam than a Christian because I didn't have to unlearn or give up any beliefs," she said."
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"Coming from an atheist background, I had an easier time accepting Islam than a Christian because I didn't have to unlearn or give up any beliefs," she said."
@Khandro
Atheists, who take up a religion, weren't really atheistic, they were just people with a 'data hole' left vacant because family or school didn't bother to shovel anything in there and, all the while, had a 'craving' for something to fill it with.
As jim said:-
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isn't it reasonable to think that people who either feel rejected by their family, or actually are, would be that bit more vulnerable to being exploited by anyone that can give them a sense of belonging?
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Although I usually think things like this while reaching, desperately, for answers to the question of why people join far-right groups. Although, realistically, it's their last hope of a social life after the rest of the world has sent them packing.
Atheists, who take up a religion, weren't really atheistic, they were just people with a 'data hole' left vacant because family or school didn't bother to shovel anything in there and, all the while, had a 'craving' for something to fill it with.
As jim said:-
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isn't it reasonable to think that people who either feel rejected by their family, or actually are, would be that bit more vulnerable to being exploited by anyone that can give them a sense of belonging?
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Although I usually think things like this while reaching, desperately, for answers to the question of why people join far-right groups. Although, realistically, it's their last hope of a social life after the rest of the world has sent them packing.
Peter Pedant, you seem to be somewhat miffed with me. Oh well …
Moving on.
Khandro, to continue from your post at 23:30 Tue. Western World leaders purporting to cleave to ‘faith’ – as, with the ridiculously expectant attitudes we have, they must do if they’re to be elected - consistently tell us that Islam is a religion of peace and that radical Islam is not representative. Additionally, if you read these pages you will find that, with the exception of Goodlife who determinedly maintains that everyone else is wrong, when presented with criticism, ambassadors of one religion will vigorously defend another religion simply because it is ‘religion’. We have you applauding anyone who rebukes an atheist and Keyplus clapping a Roman Catholic on the back, and so it continues - even though your respective ‘faiths’ are very much at odds. In my opinion the western approach in general is one of such tolerance that it denies reality so if you’re expecting a resurrection of the Crusades (radical Islam doesn’t believe they ever ended), I think you’ll wait a very long time. The only people who speak out in any numbers against Islam are those atheists – and that is by no means all - who refuse to adhere to the politically correct attitudes that society stupidly demands. They tell it as it is and they are not only castigated for it – they are actively demonised.
In the words of John Lennon - just ‘Imagine’. If religion didn’t exist the turmoil in the Middle East – the greatest menace to the world today - wouldn’t exist and, hence, neither would the growing fear that Islam intends to conquer. Refugees from countries devastated by political conflict would come here, settle, and integrate – and they would be welcomed - but as always with religion, “It’s not me – it’s the other bloke”. It’s a sad world.
Moving on.
Khandro, to continue from your post at 23:30 Tue. Western World leaders purporting to cleave to ‘faith’ – as, with the ridiculously expectant attitudes we have, they must do if they’re to be elected - consistently tell us that Islam is a religion of peace and that radical Islam is not representative. Additionally, if you read these pages you will find that, with the exception of Goodlife who determinedly maintains that everyone else is wrong, when presented with criticism, ambassadors of one religion will vigorously defend another religion simply because it is ‘religion’. We have you applauding anyone who rebukes an atheist and Keyplus clapping a Roman Catholic on the back, and so it continues - even though your respective ‘faiths’ are very much at odds. In my opinion the western approach in general is one of such tolerance that it denies reality so if you’re expecting a resurrection of the Crusades (radical Islam doesn’t believe they ever ended), I think you’ll wait a very long time. The only people who speak out in any numbers against Islam are those atheists – and that is by no means all - who refuse to adhere to the politically correct attitudes that society stupidly demands. They tell it as it is and they are not only castigated for it – they are actively demonised.
In the words of John Lennon - just ‘Imagine’. If religion didn’t exist the turmoil in the Middle East – the greatest menace to the world today - wouldn’t exist and, hence, neither would the growing fear that Islam intends to conquer. Refugees from countries devastated by political conflict would come here, settle, and integrate – and they would be welcomed - but as always with religion, “It’s not me – it’s the other bloke”. It’s a sad world.
