Study Finds Link Between Brain Damage and Religious Fundamentalism
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Really?? Eat somebody who was weaker than you so you can grow stronger? May explain why they are extinct at the moment.
Would you astro travel into a locked box just to prove the only thing missing is a way out?
Would you astro travel into a locked box just to prove the only thing missing is a way out?
I like the idea of sh!tting them out, but it's to get to that point. Chowing down on the same meal, night after night...
In the Congress Cafeteria:
Something from the menu, sir?
Yes please. I'll have the Mo-HAM-Ed pate with crackers for an appetizer, served with a vintage bottle of Mo- HAM-Ed red. But...
Something wrong, sir?
I'm somewhat conflicted about the main. What do you recommend?
Well, we marinate all the meat because it's rather...tough. Unless you get a young one. But we cannot promise that. At any rate, a nice goulash served with 12 grain bread often hits the spot. And of course, if it tastes like sh!t, we always keep a bucket handy that you can throw up into.
Yes, but...
But what, sir?
Is the meat properly cleaned before going into the kitchen? I've pursued these creatures for a number of years and their hygiene is, well, it's disgusting.
Don't worry about that. They are completely scrubbed down, skinned, and processed in a separate building. The abattoir is inspected daily for cleanliness!
Ok, I'll try the goulash then.
Excellent choice, sir!
You're mixing up the Supernatural for Magic, Bones. Catholicism freely acknowledges the presence of a supratemporal Creator Who formed and supercedes Natural Law. It is a Theist faith which means it believes in an active and engaged God. That establishes an ordered universe comprehensible to human reason.
Hence the living Eucharist is the central facet and completely consistent with the religion. Magic conceives creation as a random intersection, in a void, of singularities of unknown origin fomenting a Big Bang. That is beyond all comprehension, and is simply a Gnostic meditation. ALL of modern Cosmology is formed of this.
That's an utterly specious distinction. Magic in this context means the belief that by following the proper rituals and making the right incantations you can control, or at least influence, some supernatural agent to act in your favour. What is prayer if not that? It's pure magical thinking.
No it doesn't, it simply assumes that, on the basis of no good evidence at all, which means it's probably false and everything that follows from it is also probably false.
No it's not, modern cosmology is a carefully thought out body of scientific observations, theories, and conclusions,firmly rooted in evidence and reason, and carefully and thoroughly tested. The quantum theory and general relativity theory that underlie it are two of the three most successful, most accurate, widest ranging, and best attested, scientific theories we have. The third is evolution. Science would not claim them to be true in any absolute sense, all understanding but the trivial is provisional to some degree, but they're currently the best explanations of reality we have. Religion is perhaps our first, and worst, attempt at an explanation of reality, and we should have outgrown it long ago.