Dec 042009
Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Science. His most recent book is Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2004). Professor Diamond argues that religion has encompassed at least four independent components that have arisen or disappeared at different stages of development of human societies over the last 10000 years. … usc college crcc center for religion and civic culture university of southern california creativity jared …
But if we choose to ignore the lessons learned from thousands of years of religious trial and error, we are doomed to suffer the consequence of our stubbornness.
fsm ftw
God told me it’s OK to masterbate
…That or they have a cultural predisposition toward exclusion. Havn’t you ever read the old testiment? They think they are God’s chosen people, and are not known for wanting converts. Conversions seem to have arisen from Jesus’ need to convince Jews that he was a true messiah.
ah but more and more in jewish comminuties and societies are refusing to allow certain people TOO be jewish, more and more gentiles wishing to convert to Judaism are being refused out of the fact of your heritage or other reasons, in form creating of Jewish master race. So in part, they pick the best and leave the rest.
The Bible is the greatest work of Pagan Mythology ever writ.
you come across as indoctrinated.
.where you home schooled ?
have you ever left you town ?
cloning for organ harvesting? You make it sound liek the grow babies and kill them once born to take their organs.
Gender identity disorder as being attributed to a lack of god? Homosexuality? What about all the gay catholic people. Tatoos? Drugs? both have been used extensively in religions since the beginning of time.
I’m glad that your church has gotten to you sufficiently to try and suppress all things that seem unfamiliar to you.
Raves are awesome, and you, good sir, are an idiot.
@jdcremin Just a question for a minute….
A lot of these things are coming out due to society developing a greater acceptance for people’s individuality and a better understanding of who each of us are. Gender identity disorder is hardly the fault of athiests. And drug legalization doesn’t seem to be linked to religion in my book. Gay pride parades?
How is homosexuality a political or religious issue? Isn’t it about who one is and what one likes? What if it were the other way around?
no one is perfect
if you want proof of the spirit realm
ask some one who does spiritism
and they will tell you about the voices
they can hear. those are demons if not the devil himself. belive me you don’t want to know about being demon possessed. The King Jesus will return to crush them and wicked men who do not
believe and practice the truth
wow
i love porn
yet i believe in god
silly me
you give atheists too much credit
by the way
no one claims lady gaga
Because no christian (or jew, muslim, etc) has ever gotten an abortion, practiced sexual deviance, had a tattoo, or gotten fake tits… Right?
bigot
Ironicly the nations with the most atheists have the least crime (Sweden) . Atheists are the bogey men to fundamentalists .Atheists have higher IQ’s and are bookworms that have more morals than theists .
Jihad, Crusades, Genital Mutilation, Sexual Repression etc. etc…
good on you religion, you rock
[1934-1997] American astronomer and author
In a March 1996 profile by Jim Dawson in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Sagan talked about his then-new book The Demon Haunted World and was asked about his personal spiritual views: “My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it,” he said. “An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.”
To be continued.
Thanks for the props. Should I also eat some babies? Mabye hump a few dogs?
There is no correlation between any of those items you’ve listed and lack of religiosity. In fact, the majority of those are negatively correlated with Atheism. Atheists are (on average) more educated, less likely to divorce, more intelligent (operantly defined as higher scores on IQ tests), less likely to murder, and so on.
By all means, make up many silly non-correlates and at the end of your faulty premises add the conclusion that they are the work of atheists.
no problem man it’s a tough grind but i think we can overshoot the destroyed family quota this month.
Hahaha. Funny there is a larger amount of people of faith involved in these activities.
porn, TV violence and horror, abortion, euthanasia, cloning for organ harvesting, genetic engineering for looks, sexual deviance and promiscuity, the superflluous nuclear family, gender identity disorder, kids without dads, divorce, tatoos, drug legalization, chic lesbians (men next?), gay pride parades, wanton materialism, breast augmentation, calf implants, Lady Gaga, raves, the L word, Tila Tequila,South of Nowhere, MTV’s LOGO and True Life.
Keep up the good work atheists.
Nothing in God’s word is a myth,unless it is spoken of to expose man made lies.Man loves to twist things to his way of thinking.the carnal mind you see.
Only thing i can think about are Jews.
Jews are great. Instead of forcing people to choose to be Jewish, they’re doing it the other way.
They spend most of their time being more productive.
As a result, the whole Jewish community rises, and as said by ” Survival of the Fittest “, Jews go on and reproduce and become ever more stronger, while non-Jewish people form other races spend more time killing each other, and forcing each other to believe in their religion.
JEWS FTW !
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oups i forgot to tell you the word relation as thesame rooth or relgion, legion