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Lethal Dangers Of Creationism

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Some Creationists cannot tolerate being proven wrong and will kill as a result.
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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Aq00yJSxo
    Religion creates very polarized people. It's amazing that people dig their heals in this far. Have a look at this angry Catholic mother shouting at her child for daring to become an atheist.

    "IT'S NOT OK MICHAEL! IT'S NOT OK!!"
    phillyharper
  • http://jcnot4me.com/Items/cults/victims_of_religion.htm
    Wow...how Christian of him. That's a sad story. I usually just nod and smile after a theological argument has passed the point of usefulness.

    I'm all for exploring spirituality, but Rule Books need to become the historical relics that they are.

    For more examples of Why Religion Sucks
    Humdrum
  • http://bp2.blogger.com/_1J11lnNV_GI/Rn3euu0de1I/AAAAAAA...
    People know what's going to happen when you stab somebody!
    covelogibbs
  • this is equally about the Lethal Dangers of Drinking.
    stephenthomson
  • It's a scary line being crossed when a group or a single person feels justified to kill or harm others in preservation of their beliefs.

    Kudos to the family member who caught that gem on film Philly. In my opinion people with control issues shouldn't become parents. Kids grow up, if you can't handle it, get yourself a fish tank or maybe some nice gerbils, etc. Much less disappointing.
    aschneider
  • Let's talk reality, not just points of view from our prejudiced minds. if it would have been the other way around, would the atheist have recieved only a five year sentence? there is something totally screwy about this die and kill for your loyalty to something that you've been conditioned about since birth. I thought that we would have gotten over this after the crusades and the middle ages. aparently we have not 'evolved' as much as we like to pretend that we have.
    Magalex
  • Magalex, the Crusades and the Midlle Ages are very, very recent, almost contemporary to today, on the scale of the length of time that has passed since human precursors emerged and evolved into humans. In such a short time - bar some global catastrophe that totally and permanently alters the environment, thus eliminating those human gene lines (and lineages, in a sense) that don't carry random mutations which happen to enable survival in the new circumstances and allow the mutated individuals to live long enough to reproduce and pass on that vital mutation to new generations - little if any evolution actually can occur. Indeed, we haven't really evolved since the Crusades and the Middle Ages, but technology certainly has (and most dramatically and exponentially over the past 150 or so years, along with a similar sharp upward curve in population), creating in us the illusion of being much more evolved than the people of those times. Basically, we are all barbarians with a thin veneer of "civilization" to rein us and our impulses in.... with fragile and limited success, as world news painfully remind us daily.
    Vierotchka
  • Vierotchka, that's why Magalex used quotations around the word 'evolved'. He wasn't referring to real biological evolution, which of course we know takes much longer than the 'evolution' of culture and technology.
    stephenthomson
  • Many people I have this debate with are either angry, or depressed. After one particularly invloved debate, the devout Christian girl actually started crying because I "made her think." People don't want to think about their belief because it's a sin to doubt. This results in VERY emotional expression, and, added to drunkenness, violence. As "Reason is the enemy of faith." Martin Luther said this upon self-reflection, realizing that if you actually THINK about your beliefs, you may become doubtful.
    dco
    • dco
    • 8 months ago

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