What if horoscopes targeted countries, wouldn't you be offended? Americans need to eat less, exercise more, use less credit cards and not be so arrogant. The Japanese need to learn more English and stop eating so much sushi. The French need to be nicer to Americans and eat less frog legs.
Are you offended yet? I hope so. How do you think I feel when I see horoscopes in the newspaper or posted on Facebook?
Showing posts with label Pseudoscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pseudoscience. Show all posts
Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
What human institution puts value on discarding our reason?
What human institution puts a value on discarding the one thing that separates us from the rest of the mammals on earth? Religion and pseudoscience. Religion and pseudoscience demands that humanity discards our ability to reason to accept it's teachings.
If anyone thinks that religion has advanced civilization, think again! The operative word, "Think"! Has the world of pseudoscience, psychics, astrology and religion advanced civilization? Nope.
What human institution makes cars, buildings, ships and airplanes? What human institution advances medicine and surgery? Science.
I submit, we need to use our brains. What do the religious, the believers say? Don't use your brain, all it's takes is faith and belief. Which is better? Use your brain? Or don't use your brain?
Who are the crazy ones? The people who say to discard reason and don't think about it, just believe in religion? Or the people who say, critical thinking and using your brain are important.
The answer is: Use your brain.
When will civilization, en mass, begin to really move forward? When the masses, seeking for answers, begin to look for the natural and not the supernatural.
If anyone thinks that religion has advanced civilization, think again! The operative word, "Think"! Has the world of pseudoscience, psychics, astrology and religion advanced civilization? Nope.
What human institution makes cars, buildings, ships and airplanes? What human institution advances medicine and surgery? Science.
I submit, we need to use our brains. What do the religious, the believers say? Don't use your brain, all it's takes is faith and belief. Which is better? Use your brain? Or don't use your brain?
Who are the crazy ones? The people who say to discard reason and don't think about it, just believe in religion? Or the people who say, critical thinking and using your brain are important.
The answer is: Use your brain.
When will civilization, en mass, begin to really move forward? When the masses, seeking for answers, begin to look for the natural and not the supernatural.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Some thoughts
“Everyone gives themselves permission to behave absurdly when religion is mentioned.” –Christopher Hitchens
Some examples of the bad behavior of the religious...
The scared, the intolerant, the deluded, the self-devaluing (You need religion because you are born bad.), the delusion of mind-reading (Your god can read your mind.), secret death wishes (Doesn't matter if you die since you'll go to heaven. If you see a city or cities blown to bits by a nuclear bomb, you secretly are happy since you think Christ is about to come back.), the grandiose delusion of thinking that you know a god, the bigoted and the erotomaniacs are all characteristics of the religious.
Some examples of the bad behavior of the religious...
The scared, the intolerant, the deluded, the self-devaluing (You need religion because you are born bad.), the delusion of mind-reading (Your god can read your mind.), secret death wishes (Doesn't matter if you die since you'll go to heaven. If you see a city or cities blown to bits by a nuclear bomb, you secretly are happy since you think Christ is about to come back.), the grandiose delusion of thinking that you know a god, the bigoted and the erotomaniacs are all characteristics of the religious.
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