26 June 2012
About Me
- Name: Infidel753
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
Previous Posts
- Ode to orthography
- Link round-up for 24 June 2012
- Video of the week -- Bernie Sanders
- Greek tragedy
- Link round-up for 17 June 2012
- Obama's illegal-alien initiative
- Video of the week -- the transit of Venus
- Link round-up for 10 June 2012 (delayed)
- Prometheus -- fighting back against the gods
- Stagnation inexorable?
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
US out of UN, UN out of US
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
4 Comments:
More good news:
"Young Americans Losing Faith? New Poll Shows 31 Percent Of Adults Under 30 Doubt God Exists" huffpost
Nice jobby. I agree with a reader who thought this comment by you significant:
"All the good [religion] supposedly does is actually done by people, and I think most of that good would still be done by people -- likely the same people -- with or without religion."
SK: That's moving in the right direction -- and I don't believe for a moment that a lot of the other 69% haven't, in fact, had their doubts.
LP: Thanks. Of course, even if religion does occasionally inspire people to do good they wouldn't otherwise have done (and I see no reason to think it does), that would be trivial compared with the herd conformity, anti-intellectualism, gay-bashing, obstruction of medical research, etc., that comes along with it.
Thanks for participating!
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