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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 09:29 PM
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Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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I don't understand this attitude that living things are somehow entitled to be free of suffering. That an injustince was done in that we were created incomplete. I have never felt...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 09:24 PM
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Posted By madnak
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When I read the ABC article I thought to myself the Pope can't be this stupid it must be the reporting. So I read what other news sources had to say. It turns out I was right. The ABC...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 09:22 PM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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So you've given us your theory on the evil in nature (which the major religions agree with)

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Uh, the major religions believe that God created nature. Therefore, if this is...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 03:28 PM
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Posted By madnak
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I hadn’t realized he was so well published. I was responding to his post which I assumed from the context that it was based on this thread. Had he wished the reader to know that...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 03:04 PM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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Nature causes both pain and pleasure. I don't see how it is easier for man to spread awful pain than to alleviate the suffering he causes.

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Then you're ignorant, or have...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 02:37 PM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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Technology does not make one happy.

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Technology provides food, warmth, and shelter, which are necessary for happiness (and which, largely due to religion and its effects...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 02:31 PM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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Pretty harsh. I can only imagine what you would call people who opine after reading an 8 paragraph news article of a 76 page text.

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Hey! You're being awfully dumb. How...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 11:35 AM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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We assume it will be in the afterlife, where God is in direct control and man has no say anymore. But on earth, man has the free will to do what he wants within the confines of nature. To...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 04:07 AM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

In themselves, not in the human race. In an elite group of authorities with no real philosophical basis.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 03:35 AM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

Stalin and Mao wouldn't agree with me. Stalin and Mao came from completely different directions - they weren't humanists. We can only say so much about their motivations, but their principles were...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 03:33 AM
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Posted By madnak
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Anyways if you want to blame God for the fact that all humans at some point succumb to the rigors of the ecosystem go right ahead. I don't but I'm the type of guy who doesn't blame the...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 03:14 AM
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Posted By madnak
Re: Pope blames atheism for all the worlds problems.

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"The atheism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is -- in its origins and aims -- a type of moralism: a protest against the injustices of the world and of world history. A world...
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