Atheist Progress

Bad logic. It's unrelated to the question of whether a God exists or not.

I'm not really claiming that this demonstrates God's existence, just that it shows the ill effects of atheism.

More false logic. It shows that in one case a country was both atheistic and poor.

NK doesn't have a long history of poverty. The atheism engendered the poverty...

I'd say that the lack of religion in North Korea has had little effect worldwide. Now if you want to talk about a real setback of reason---



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Not even interested in anything you have to say, ruprup. You can stay on ignore.

Oh GanjaSnaKKKe--I guess you're afraid of facts that refute your implied premise that atheistism is anti-technology/science. I guess your limited memory has led you to forget that the first artificial satellite was launched by a government space program that was officially atheist.

My my my GanjaSnaKKKe you are such a deep thunker---

From now on when I see a GanjaSnaKKKe I'll just think of this


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Oh look, another atheist state, as seen from space, at night . . .

Hey Gunga Dim, can you say "selection bias?"

Open steppe is one thing, a nation with nuclear weaponry and no lightbulbs is something else...

I guess GanjaSnaKKKe's thread has demonstrated that atheism doesn't mean a tinkers damn to progress as North Korea's real threat to progress is an authoritarian regime, a condition that also existed when the Catholic Church was providing an authoritarian environment during the dark ages.

Perhaps the US should take authoritarianism as a warning, not atheism nor Catholicism, nor any other -ism as long as it recognizes that repression of individual liberty and individual thought hinders progress and development.

US take warning--we've come to a point where the US is dancing dangerously close to an oligarchy and power concentrated in the hands of the few tends toward authoritarianism.

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North Korea is not a society based on science and reason, it is based on ignorance and oppression. Isn't the whole point of that image to show their lack of scientific progress? So in what way is NK "based on science"?

Alley Oop never had atom bombs; you sort of need science for that...

Atheism is an expression of original sin.

Atheists define choosing as sorting out the best result, using the facts about good and evil as sortingcriteria (eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil).

That way every single time an atheist makes a decision, then by the definition of choosing that they use, they did the best. The brain releases drugs, their ego get's a boost. Also it means, when they did not do the best, then the definition they use says they did not choose it, so it must have been a mistake or an accident or something, not their fault.

That is the mainstay of how atheists, communists, nazi's and all the rest of them think. It is all just based on original sin, making good and evil into a fact, in stead of attributing the goodness and evil of a man to their soul which chooses. That the existence of the soul is a matter of opinion, faith, makes the good and evil a matter of opinion also.