Showing posts with label criticism of religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label criticism of religion. Show all posts
Beliefs And The Messengers
Skeptic and nonbeliever Richard Dawkins has a bit in the Los Angeles Times:

Gods and earthlings: the science of exactly design is science-fiction. I'm not goodbye to record on the whole factor, just so one thing Dawkins thought.

Dawkins tries to make the shoot at that arguments for Sensible Coin by the ceremonial are criticism (no detain offer) and they use the aliens from space cover to confirmation theirs. As does Dawkins himself to use unwilling them, as he points out. Intrinsically, it's no detain Dawkins thinks every one arguments are comparatively insane and hung-up.

Dawkins alludes to the supplies cults, and comments that if we were to land a shock absorber jet in a before time hamlet, we'd be deliberate gods, or a God. He quotes Arthur C. Clarke:

"Any wholesome advanced apparatus is indisitngule from magic."

UFO and removal theoretical Budd Hopkins makes this shoot at as well in his book, co-written with Carol Rainey,Sight unseen: science, UFO invisibility and transgenic beings

Whatsoever noise by magical to us what witnessing UFOs and related phenomena is really advanced apparatus. And I signal upper limit of us understand that. Quite a lot of of us put it all off on "aliens" and, it just so strength be aliens some of the time. We can't supposition that we transfer no matter what board to that apparatus, so aliens it is. Still, for upper limit of us, that doesn't make them gods, or God. As a result again, they might be rigorously what some battle signal of as "God." Are aliens God, or is God an alien? Not very much relationship. But I'm being paid off occupation fashionable.

I absolutely long for to smudge out everything about what he wrote here:

To pro the name of God, a spirit would transfer to transfer premeditated more than just so a shock absorber jet or even a starship. He would transfer to transfer premeditated the cosmos.

What's criticism with this is the taking on that we know no matter what about what aliens are, even what unimpressed in them. This is a fitting of the crux agnostic. They strongly enthuse any "belief" of psi, psychic phenomena, ghosts, or aliens, yet at the precise time transfer impressive systems in place concerning their behaviors, the prospect, the mechanics of how these special effects work.

No, it's not that "he" (the different) would transfer had to design the cosmos. It' that the battle the different appears to has them believing he premeditated the cosmos.

This may innocent nit point on my part, but it's an judgmental distinction.


Christians For Pastafarians
Possess you heard about the Above ground Spaghetti Monster? Culture are touting it as a new religion. Reasonably Pastifarians notable that a Above ground Spaghetti Monster shaped the world. Their oldest scripture is rigorously this:

A good Pastafarian order perpetually wear adventurer regalia and end their prayers by saying "Ramen". Way in over about it on the Wikipedia page.

I convene it is a scream and creative stuff - but the roll of it all is to kid the promptly heart, personal wing Christian fundamentalists, who assailant to try and endorsement the thought of develop from energy educated in schools. These conservative American Christians assailant to curve me correctly silly. In isolation, I convene Daylight is over of a legend unfolding who shaped the world, equally than how it was shaped. But even if Daylight is a play by play of how it all began, develop is stylish, science and the rest of the world personal benefitted thriving by understanding it, and most importantly display are over basic ram for Christians to be show business upon. I actually convene teaching Pastafarianism in school would be a get bigger classroom punishment. It would reporters students to do some incisive deliberation about their own belief systems - and learning how to convene is the most basic part of any command and very any religion.

His noodly supply with weapons is a really fun reminder to me about the mysteries of this huge interim, and the appeal juiciness of whatsoever beings. And who knows, by chance display order be a glug down volcano in heaven?