Every religion proven to be based upon a foundation of lies

The real world isn't imposing the limits, you are.

In the real world, if you go soft on assholes, the assholes win. Pretty simple really.

Thus Republicans.

A justification is a justification, fool yourself all you like.

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The most hilarious posts i've read here in ages . . .

Well if Gunga is spending so much time and energy looking at men's bottoms, he's going to have less time to spread hate and pseudo science. That's got to be a good thing.

Do you think that this man has a real world view on the causes of behavior?
If you do not, "what do you think he is wrong about?

Interesting comment about head hunters. Nonetheless....

I once watched a PBS program which had me rolling on the floor it was so funny. A couple of PBS yuppies were interviewing a Pacific islander and the answers they got to questions were very far from what they expected or what their ideology had conditioned them to expect. They asked the guy about head hunting and they clearly expected to hear something like what your man Fresco has to say, and that isn't what they got at all.

The islander noted that his grandfather had spent 20 years in a French prison for taking heads and that nobody ever got a decent nights sleep on those islands in those days i.e. they were either worrying about other people trying to take their heads or they were out trying to take other people's heads. The guy said that in those days no woman would marry anybody who hadn't taken at least one human head and it was a sort of a right of passage. The guy noted also, naturally enough, that no useful work ever got done under those circumstances and that the economy of the islands had been in the toilet since the days of Adam and Eve and Alley Oop.

The guy also noted that all of that had ended with the introduction of Christianity to the islands and described Christianity as the greatest thing which had ever happened in the world, and you can imagine the look on the two yuppies' faces when the guy said that...

I think I see where you are coming from. I do think that Christianity has evolved compared to many other societies and it would seem as a heaven in a way compared to other societies but I would not be ignorant to the history of our own mores that can be found in the old testament.
Many religions justify the actions of their past and the actions of their present mores.
When we are open minded to other point of views we start to see the reality that we are exposed to.

Excellent point,but I lack the ability to explain it properly.

Experiments at Stanford and Yale supports your claim.

At least with the so-called end game of science, it continues toimprove on "truth."

I think the word "rationality" is subjective toeach person.

Good point; it's all based on socialization and culture. I've often said that religion is an accident of birth.

Maybe, but then there's a high conversion rate, during adulthood to a different religion once the individual becomes "enlightened".

But that still follows from socialization andculture.

No, it often follows from education. Many Christians may convert to either Judaism or Islam following an educational experience ( such as college courses ).

So you are claiming only people with education switch religions?
Where's your proof? I became an atheist as a young teenager. All my siblings are christians.

Not to change the subject but do you know where farmerman has been?
I have not heard from him in a month, We had a good discussion a few pages back where his expertise could have been used!

I would think that new info {education} is what causes all beliefs but I am sure that I could be wrong!