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Pope Francis allows for Atheism

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Message 20 of 62 (700869)
06-08-2013 1:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by Faith
06-07-2013 11:23 PM

Re: The Ultimate Power Play
That's what I was saying about the RCC. All they want is to recover the power they lost through the Protestant Reformation, they'll do anything they think might further that aim.
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More to the point, all western religions want to recover the power they lost through the Enlightenment.
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Not going to happen.
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Humanity is (very) slowly learning to turn its back on myth and superstition.
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
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Message 25 of 62 (700931)
06-09-2013 7:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 24 by onifre
06-09-2013 7:25 PM

Re: The Ultimate Power Play
Whenever the locals rub blue mud in their navels, I rub blue mud in mine just as solemnly.
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Robert A. Heinlein, speaking through the character Lazarus Long in the novel Time Enough for Love, 1973
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
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Message 44 of 62 (701117)
06-11-2013 8:26 PM

With all of these discussions of what religions have done to themselves and to others, and I the only one who feels that nobody with a fundamentalist belief should ever be allowed in any position of power?
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(This goes for fundamentalists of all stripes, so as to include Mao, Stalin and other similar misfits as well.)
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
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Message 46 of 62 (701122)
06-11-2013 8:57 PM 		Reply to: Message 45 by Taq
06-11-2013 8:29 PM

Even more, should we restrict democracy based on religious views?
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We might have to. We exclude other misfits.
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