tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post3941536841377799042..comments2024-03-29T01:45:45.002+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Dear ChristiansRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-82315541290645433862018-02-02T09:43:25.760+00:002018-02-02T09:43:25.760+00:00You seem to have forgotten to address the content ...You seem to have forgotten to address the content of the letter other than to say my logic is flawed without saying why. <br /><br />I'm sorry you felt you needed t be condescending and abusive but perhaps you had nothing more. I'll leave your abuse in place so that people can see how Christians respond when someone points out the damage they've done under cover of faith and with a god and a book to blame.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-87676236514344940022018-02-02T04:48:14.896+00:002018-02-02T04:48:14.896+00:00It is absolutely beyond question that there are ma...It is absolutely beyond question that there are many unreasonable and unconscionable (self proclaimed) Christians (the doctrine gives lie to their proclamation)! Same holds true of those who are "Christ-free". Having no doctrine to be bound by, however, at the very least, they can't be accused of hypocrisy.<br />You have mentioned Serbia (country I was born and raised in) on the list of your "faith based initiatives (that) have shown us that religion is not a force for peace"... This brings me to the beginning of this letter - do you know anything about the role of the U.K. and the U.S. (I still don't know where you are from) in the Balkans during the nineties?! And what faith based initiative are you talking about, please?!?! Furthermore, being a leftist, you must know that Marx said (quite rightly so) that wars are about power and economy. (I admit, he also said that religion was the "opium of the masses"). I will resort, once again, to the music argument again, in a different way: some 80% of my compatriots identify themselves as Orthodox Christians; I would venture to say that somewhere around 5% are justified in making this claim... Much like lady Gaga isn't music, most of those who claim Christianity, have no basis to do so! But I would not outlaw music in order to get rid of the garbage that passes for it and this miss out on Rashied Ali and Coltrane or Allan Holdsworth or Bach or Mussorgsky, etc!!! Same with Christianity - so much of what passed for it historically has been horrendous, I agree. But I also submit that it has transgressed against the doctrine, thereby annulling its validity!<br />If you spoke Serbian, you would be able to listen to mother Irina - a lady who, upon earning her masters degree in mathematics, studied theology, and upon earning her doctorate, renounced the world and became a nun. She is an intelligent, erudite woman, displaying humility (which you clearly lack), tact (which you wouldn't know if it hit you over the head - which it wouldn't), kindness (not sure you understand the word) and a kind of serenity (you would surely benefit from, judging by the letter I just read)... <br /><br />I wish you a future more peaceful than the present this letter was written in...<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Marko Djordjevic<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-74173627694827786742018-02-02T04:47:38.255+00:002018-02-02T04:47:38.255+00:00Dear Sir/Madam or Other,
Your tone is dreadfully c...Dear Sir/Madam or Other,<br />Your tone is dreadfully condescending, while the logic behind your moral reasoning is deeply flawed. Based on your command of the English language, I assume you are either from the U.K. or the U.S. (I will bet on this like you bet on the non-existence of God - neither of us has any way of knowing, I may be wrong, you may be wrong). Still, if I happen to be correct regarding the passport you hold, I implore you to immediately renounce your citizenship and become an apatride - it would be unbecoming of a self proclaimed "center-left humanist" to be paying taxes and thereby supporting one of the two empires that have harmed, and continue to harm humanity in ways unparalleled in human history! These days it is almost interchangeable - wherever America bombs, Britain bombs as well.<br />Try this on for size: 90% of what people consider music is disingenuous, worthless trash that doesn't deserve the moniker. But, the remaining 10% ranges from beautiful to sublime! In this spirit, I have precious little objection (does not mean "none") to your view of organized religion, when taken en masse. In fact, here is an excerpt from a letter I wrote to a friend a few days ago: "I am grateful to have come along in an era after God had been "killed" - by those who proclaim(ed) to be "in his service" way before Nietzsche dealt him a "fatal" blow..." <br />Irrespective of claims made by Dennett, Harris and even one of my favorites, Hofstadter, free will does exist: from a purely materialistic perspective, I believe it is hidden in what Hofstadter posed as a recursive relationship between the non-living aspect of our brains (quantum level) on one side and ideas and concepts (especially original ones!) on the other. <br />Man... No, let's be fair: Man, Woman and Other all have a weakness for riches and comfort, and their free will guides them this in this direction. The trouble is that most people will proclaim anything and pledge allegiance to anyone in order to do "well"... Not so much when it comes to doing "good"... Continued in post No. 2<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-45999983286398080642014-07-22T00:13:27.534+01:002014-07-22T00:13:27.534+01:00Oops! Thesauros ran away! I wonder if he's st...Oops! Thesauros ran away! I wonder if he's still boasting about never having seen a question from an Atheist he couldn't answer.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-70877942101156720822013-10-14T14:05:04.335+01:002013-10-14T14:05:04.335+01:00"Not all Christians.." really? That'..."Not all Christians.." really? That's the BEST argument against this essay? "We're not all like that." THAT THERE IS A SINGLE ABRAHAMIC BELIEVER WHO CHOOSES VIOLENCE OVER PEACE PROVES THE WHOLE THING IS A LIE. There is no omnipotent god who enters the hearts and minds of every single Believer and magically turns them into instruments of peace. If there were, we would not still be having this argument. If a Believer bothers to read the bible front to back, there's all manner of violence, and the peace it calls for often leads to its followers playing the victim in an endless charade of codependency on the church, governments, and other institutions that fall in and out of alleged favor with an imaginary deity. So even your "peace" is imaginary. You can't hold the ancient Abrahamic texts up as perfect and unwavering, then dismiss the unpleasant parts we cite as "oh well we're not really like that." SOME OF YOU ARE! and the fact even one of your lot under your tent flap still clings to violence as a solution to humanity's problems, and refuse to accept that blind belief in unproved malarkey IS one of humanity's many problems, makes every single one of you culpable. ZachsMindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736997572266455429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-52017174744752692892013-04-05T08:26:26.655+01:002013-04-05T08:26:26.655+01:00Extraordinary!
Do you really imagine belief is ...Extraordinary! <br /><br />Do you really imagine belief is merely a decision? Presumably, for you it is. Your god exists for no other reason than that you have decided to believe it does.<br /><br />And on that evidence-free, capricious arrogance, millions of people have been killed and billions have had their lives controlled by people who have learned to use that arrogant stupidity to their own advantage.<br /><br />Sorry, but respect is the one thing your 'decision to believe' does not deserve - which is probably why religionists are always demanding it.<br /><br /> Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-27873509566494636302013-04-05T02:31:05.088+01:002013-04-05T02:31:05.088+01:00Dear Rosa,
I respect your decisions to believe in...Dear Rosa,<br /><br />I respect your decisions to believe in what you believe in and wouldn't want to attempt to convert you to any other religion. My beliefs are different from yours, in that I believe in God, as a Christian. I know and acknowledge that many wars have been and are fought in the name of "religion," but I am essentially a pacifist and seek peace on earth, which Jesus also came to bring, being the "Prince of Peace." On that level we may have some common ground, but I do not wish to wage war with you as an atheist, much as I hope you don't wish to wage war on me as a Christian. Best wishes to you.Erik Retallickhttp://worldprayr.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-46158956476633994772013-03-18T12:55:44.892+00:002013-03-18T12:55:44.892+00:00ex_king_john is spot on, and amply demonstrates wh...ex_king_john is spot on, and amply demonstrates why any so-called rational debate about faith based on empiricism and reason is inherently flawed - we're using the wrong language here... to paraphrase again, trying describe music is like "dancing about architecture" unless you're especially "gifted" or "disadvantaged" enough to display the arrogance of an autistic sprectrum disorder such as Asperger's.<br /><br />This blog is a waste of time. All the cowardly anonymous Rosa Rubicondior (why not use a real name?) does is give self-absorbed atheists a chance to pat themselves on the back for being so clever, whilst simultaneously baiting self-absorbed religiosi (not a typo) to be subjected to her (or his?) unnecessarily bullying.<br /><br />Oh the other thing this blog does is generate money... just like any good religion lol.<br /><br />Ignore the troll and move on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-70502878150174301342013-02-27T11:28:42.223+00:002013-02-27T11:28:42.223+00:00Paul, what two-way dialogue is necessary in this p...Paul, what two-way dialogue is necessary in this particular context? If you tell a bully 'no more' do you then negotiate? Perhaps just accept being bullied on Tuesdays? <br /><br />In the appropriate place there is endless debate, but this is a statement and one I support.<br /><br />As for 'not all Christians' I had a conversation at the height of the child abuse revelations with a Catholic woman who said "but not all Christians are like that". Despite her revulsion for what was happening she still supported the church and thought it was wonderful. She really was a nice person - as I freely admitted - aside from her ability to hold two opposing opinions about the church in her head at one time.<br /><br />As I pointed out to her, the better she was in her life the more harm she did by supporting the church. To put it at its simplest, people meeting her would say that "she is clearly a nice person so the church must be safe for my children". By being one of the 1.2 billion Christians (who can't all be wrong) she helped give the church an acceptable face. She was enabling the crimes (not to mention funding them) and every time she said "I'm a Catholic" helping to draw in more victims.<br /><br />Not that I really blamed her personally. She too was a victim of the previous generation of Christians. But adults have to take some responsibility for what they do and say and if you joined the KKK because you quite liked the bedsheets they hid under then you'd have to accept the criticism.Panikoshttps://twitter.com/hardfactsnetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-1505859416382802752013-02-25T22:26:00.179+00:002013-02-25T22:26:00.179+00:00We are like the TV host interviewing Richard Feynm...We are like the TV host interviewing Richard Feynman and asking for a brief explanation in a couple of minutes of QED for the audience to which Feynman replied "If I could do that I wouldn't have won a Nobel Prize" It's apocryphal but it sure sounds like Feynman could have said it. And he could give you an understandable explanation but it would take longer than a TV spot has available.<br /><br />At some point we all have to say "I don't know". I can live with that. Some people can't and either make something up to fill in the gap or being smarter than me they go looking. Personally I'll always listen to the second guy who says "I don't know either but look at what I found" than the first guy who says "I know, you can stop looking now and I'll tell you what to believe".ex_king_johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00142587064659671659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-84618836126059185222013-02-24T10:30:02.567+00:002013-02-24T10:30:02.567+00:00Mind you, I think Mr Understandably Anonymous dese...Mind you, I think Mr Understandably Anonymous deserves the credit for being the first person to try to divert the conversation and distract people's attention from the substance of the blog by mentioning Hitler.<br /><br />To reduce their opportunities for doing so was one reason I deliberately avoided an explicit mention of the Catholic-inspired Holocaust and the enthusiastic encouragement the Catholic Church and many Protestant churches gave to the Fascists of all countries during the 20th century and to their ultra-nationalist, anti-proletarian, anti-democratic, racist predecessors.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-5849714494189099372013-02-24T00:33:55.716+00:002013-02-24T00:33:55.716+00:00And if you knew anything at all about the traditio...And if you knew anything at all about the traditional religious backgrounds of countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, China and Korea you would know that the concept of a creator god was totally alien to them until they encountered Christianity. And if you think that was a good a good thing, perhaps you'd like to check out the Taiping Rebellion. That's what Christianity did to China, 20 million dead. Gary Hillhttp://www.imagesandmeanings.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-21381495962372972032013-02-23T21:10:38.834+00:002013-02-23T21:10:38.834+00:00Would that be the same Hitler who was brought up a...Would that be the same Hitler who was brought up a Catholic and died a Catholic, having never left the church in their own eyes? <br />Would that be the same Hitler who wrote a two volume opus where he outlines in considerable detail why his political outlook was based on Christian ideals?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who forced all German civil servants to make an oath of allegiance to God or lose their jobs?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who banned the atheist movement in Germany, gave their building to the church and executed their leader?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who, in front of 250,000 people in 1933, told the German people that he had destroyed atheism for good in Germany?<br />Would that be the same leader who allowed men of any religion to join the SS except Jews and atheists?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who instigated, for the first time in Germany, compulsory prayers to Jesus in state schools?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who, in 1943-44, had the Vatican completely surrounded by German troops, yet not one entered under orders from Hitler himself?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who was feted by American clergymen such as William Bell Riley and Charles Coughlin for his anti-atheist stance on their weekly radio shows throughout the 1930s, both of which had in excess of 30 million listeners?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who, in 1935, banned the sale and library stocks of all books which were critical of Christianity?<br />Would that be the same Hitler who continued to have German army officers wear their uniform belt buckle which had the words "God With Us"?<br /><br />Would that be the same Stalin who spent 5 years training to be an Christian Orthodox priest?<br />Would that be the same Stalin who, in 1942, rescinded Lenin's order that the Russian Orthodox church be a proscribed organisation and freed nearly all priests serving jail terms?<br />Would that be the same Stalin who reinstituted state funding for the Russian Orthodox church?<br />Would that be the same Stalin who awarded the Stalin peace Price to several religious figures including a British Anglican clergyman, a German Catholic and a Burmese Buddhist?<br /><br />Would that be the same Pol Pot, who, unusually for a Cambodian, spent 8 years of his childhood being educated by the Jesuits, the guys who said "give me a child and I'll give you the man"?<br /><br />Would you be the same Christian spouting the fundamentalist, simplistic, misinformed, theist nonsense atheists have come to expect?<br /> <br /><br /><br /> Gary Hillhttp://www.imagesandmeanings.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-26723176451986386842013-02-23T17:09:49.105+00:002013-02-23T17:09:49.105+00:00not to mention every first born killed, born or no...not to mention every first born killed, born or not, in egypt. on the assumption they have on average 5 children, that's the extermination of 20% of the egyptian population. makes hitler look like a saint in comparison.the thinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14724002433862102584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-51227735984234588382013-02-21T22:52:09.256+00:002013-02-21T22:52:09.256+00:00Every now and then a genuine 22 caret gold balm po...Every now and then a genuine 22 caret gold balm pot comes along and it makes it all worth it. :-)Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-26653076208450307622013-02-21T21:13:53.819+00:002013-02-21T21:13:53.819+00:00I particularly like the. 'if it wasn't for...I particularly like the. 'if it wasn't for christianity there be on atheism' . Human beings have been about for over 85,000 years when we started roaming out of Africa. What were they up to for the first 83,000, before Christians came along :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13329657676188449473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-77166853387641527042013-02-21T09:48:42.812+00:002013-02-21T09:48:42.812+00:00Are you seriously suggesting only atheists have ab...Are you seriously suggesting only atheists have abortions? And as I've pointed out elsewhere, your god would be responsible for any child that dies at or before birth through natural causes (should he exist). Thus your god is the absolute authority when it comes to abortion. Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-65012180280411833172013-02-21T07:41:55.685+00:002013-02-21T07:41:55.685+00:00One theory, which is based in part on the Feynman ...One theory, which is based in part on the Feynman Equation, says that all possible universes should come into existence from a singularity - so-called quantum foam.<br /><br />Don't forget that quantum events are often highly counter-intuitive so intuition is probably one of the worst ways to test a theory. There is no law which says reality has to conform to human intuition or perception. It's often said of quantum mechanics that if you think you understand it that's because you haven't understood it.<br />Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-25058614003017412952013-02-21T03:20:22.725+00:002013-02-21T03:20:22.725+00:00I don't believe in Vishnu, Odin or the Flying ...I don't believe in Vishnu, Odin or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I'm afraid you'll have to share responsibility for my atheism with hundreds of religions and thousands of gods.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03324051802160343773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-29250641375836117242013-02-21T02:24:54.788+00:002013-02-21T02:24:54.788+00:00Thank you for taking the time to write the respons...Thank you for taking the time to write the responses. I have spend an hour doing research on part of the information that you have given and I am sure I will spend most of my weekend looking further into these. :) Also, I did mean inanimate, so thank you!<br /><br />That said, I did get a lot of well thought out and accurate information but I don't know why I am not convinced. Given, I am not religious AT ALL, hell I don't go to church , and I am the worst type of Christian, I am sure, a Roman Catholic! Sadly, I still have a lot of unknowns such as while we don't what happened in the 1*10^-43 seconds, we know that it was a singularity before that and there are theories that say that we are part of an even bigger cosmos/galaxy? (I am unsure of the term, you can correct me if I am wrong). Moreover, I am always weary of what man believes it to be "true" because as many say everything is in the eye of the beholder. So since is only good until it is proven false, or incomplete. <br /><br />That said, you have given me a lot of information and therefore I must research it! <br /><br />Thanks again for taking the time to answer me and to write the blog :)<br /><br />AndresAndreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07722208077774834456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-51957121053926350762013-02-21T02:02:25.965+00:002013-02-21T02:02:25.965+00:00Mate, if the post was about why we don't accep...Mate, if the post was about why we don't accept the tenets of Nazism or any of the varieties of socialist dictatorship then those things would have been right at the top of the list. But the post is about religion.<br /><br />When our kids were growing up we had one basic rule about arguments [apart from no knives or fisticuffs] and that was the first person to use the 'but everyone else is doing it' tactic was deemed to have at that point lost the argument. It made them think before they opened their mouth.ex_king_johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00142587064659671659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-84397109792314246122013-02-20T23:56:29.292+00:002013-02-20T23:56:29.292+00:00Should of course have read 1*10^-43 seconds.Should of course have read 1*10^-43 seconds.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-25758782787177230402013-02-20T20:50:05.351+00:002013-02-20T20:50:05.351+00:00As to your second question, I don't think it i...As to your second question, I don't think it is possible to create a morality from the immorality of lies and deceit which depend on superstition and ignorance for their success. A pretence of knowledge in place of ignorance is a lie. <br /><br />As the lessons of religions show us, this gives the priesthood a corrupting power which is invariably abused. The pretence of knowledge and the dependence on unquestioning dogma and the lack of supporting evidence by which the validity of dogma can be measured inevitably leads to division and conflict and the vested interests of the power behind it inevitably leads to grotesque abuses of human rights. Seeing life as a preparation for something better leads to its devaluation to the point where brain-washed, mind-controlled individuals can be used as mere guidance systems for flying bombs to be used to kill those who have different ideas and ideas which threaten the vested interests who exploit the very fears and superstitions they have worked hard to instil in those whom they control.<br /><br />Morality comes from our innate evolved ability to empathise with other people and place ourselves in our model of their perception of the world. Our ability to do this, because we have a brain capable of doing it, gave us great advantage as an evolving ape and those with the ability survived and produced the most descendants, just as with any other evolved attribute. (See <a href="http://rosarubicondior.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/religion-abdication-of-moral.html" rel="nofollow">Religion: An Abdication Of Moral Responsibility</a>). In fact this is how we have our morality and ethics now; they came before religion. Ask yourself how you would recognise and evil god? (See <a href="http://rosarubicondior.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/xenos-religious-paradox.html" rel="nofollow">Xeno's Religious Paradox</a>.) It's a demonstrable fact that, in Europe, the <b>least</b> religious states tend to be the most peaceful, least criminal, most stable, and to have the highest regard for human rights, equal opportunities and freedom of conscience and discrimination. It is also a fact that the most religious states tend to have the highest rates of crime and violence and the lowest regard for the rights of minorities and, almost invariably, tolerate systematic abuse of women and even assign them an inferior legal status.<br /><br />If religions were right there would only be one; it would be called 'science'.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-15345111039380205182013-02-20T20:35:08.270+00:002013-02-20T20:35:08.270+00:00Thanks for a couple of good questions. It seems Bl...Thanks for a couple of good questions. It seems Blogger requires several answers due to size limitations<br /><br />1. The reason we can't know what happened in the first 1*10^43 seconds is because that is the Planck time - the smallest unit of time that can exist, just as we can't measure anything inside a Planck length of space - the smallest unit of space that can exist. The instant the universe came into existence it was <b>already</b> 1*10^43 seconds old.<br /><br />Do you mean inanimate rather than innate? If so, I don't see what this has to do with the production of energy in the Big Bang. the BB was the production of lots of energy (equal quantities of positive and negative adding up to zero). Energy itself is not an object so it are not subject to Newton's Laws of Motion which deal with the motion of mass in space from which you get your action/reaction. Newtonian physics has been superseded by Einsteinian Relativity which deals with space-time and gravity and so how objects with mass behave, so tends to deal with the large scale and causality. The Big Bang however was a quantum event and we know that quantum events do not necessarily have a cause. Examples are the spontaneous decay of the nucleus of a radioactive isotope and the return to it's ground state of an excited orbital electron in an atom.<br /><br />There is nothing wrong in science with not knowing. In fact there is <b>everything</b> wrong in pretending to know, or in assuming that a culturally popular superstition has it all worked out and not bothering to find out for sure. "I do not know" is the fundamentally honest position to take and the driving force behind scientific enquiry. No scientific advance was ever made by giving up and assuming it must be the locally popular god which did it and in every single example where science has worked it out to with a fair degree of certainty, and certainly for all practical purposes correctly, no god or anything supernatural has ever been found to be involved.<br /><br /><br />Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-81870712728222784532013-02-20T19:01:32.814+00:002013-02-20T19:01:32.814+00:00Rosa Rubicondior,
This is a great letter! Extreme...Rosa Rubicondior,<br /><br />This is a great letter! Extremely well thought out and referenced. Moreover, I do love the response by religious individuals that feel that they cannot learn anything from what you are saying, as if what you were saying it is not true. Sadly what they seem not to realize is that if we do not learn from our mistakes, how to do we expect to get better or have a better future. That said, you seem to be more knowledgeable on Atheism than I am, so I want to understand your point of view better. Given, if you posted something like this before, just point me in that direction :)<br /><br />Suppose that there is no religion, or any deities, high power(s) if you will, how can we explain or interpret things that cannot be explained and/or interpret. For me, I want/need to rationalize everything, so if I cannot do it through religion, I want to find another way of rationalizing it. For example, I know you mentioned in your post 20 Questions Atheists Have Answered, “We do not know exactly what happened in the first 1*10-43 seconds of the life of the universe […]” which I understand and I do not disagree with the Big Bang theory. However, my rudimentary science (I am a business “major”), tells me that for every action it can be an equal and/or opposite reaction, which tells me an innate objected had to be been moved in order to create the perfect to storm if you will, that the Big Bang was. Is there a possibility of a higher power(s), or deity, making that first move?<br /><br />For my second question is, if the overall purpose of religion is not all bad, after all, the main premise of religion is to lead a more moral life, to help those who can’t defend themselves and such, which helps gives us a sense of structure and/or accomplishment. Is it not possible to create a religion that helps harbor these types of feelings and/or goals in people in general, like a business marketing a product if you will? <br /><br />I hope you are able to answer, even if you do not know or you know someone who might as I am always in search for answers, wherever they take me.<br /><br />Once again, great post.<br /><br />Andres<br />Andreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07722208077774834456noreply@blogger.com