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Originally Posted by Charlatan
So by your reasoning religion (and specifically the afterlife promised by most religions) is the only thing that maintains order in our society.
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The key word here is ONLY. Religion HELPS maintain order, but it is not the ONLY factor. This was your faulty jump in logic.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Given the context that you are an atheist, and by suggestion, an educated man what I am I to conclude except that you are suggesting that the afterlife and it means is used to control the uneducated and that you as an educated person do not need such constraints.
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I orginally used intelligence over education but switched it, I should have used both, as both are a requirement. My thought has always been that if you are intelligent, educated, and still feel the absoulte validity of the creed of most organized religions, you are deluding yourself. Its a beautiful deception, one I wish I could indulge in as oblivion has no alure for me, but a fantasy none the less.
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As for your power and police analogy... we were subject to the big blackout here and there was no increase in crime that night. In fact, my experience was just the opposite.
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Yes that must mean its not true. My research mentor used to tell a bit of a joke that I will never forget since it applies to much in life, N = 1 is a case study N = 5 is still a case study. One only has to look at the chaos that was in N.O. to know what happens when power and police are removed from the equation.
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. Power outages occur frequently throughout the Dominican Republic, and travelers should remain alert during blackout periods, as crime rates often increase during these outages.
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Shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday, three to five masked men with handguns broke into a medical marijuana clinic in the 400 block of Haight Street, pistol-whipped a person inside and made off with marijuana and money, Fagan said.
Fagan said he wouldn't be surprised if the group of thugs had taken advantage of the power failure to rob the clinic, called Alternative Herbal Health Services.
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I'd also note that they will increase police presence during a black out, plus one would assume that the power outages would have to be predicted or prolonged for a criminal to take advantage. Reguardless electrical power is just one thing that helps maintain order, much like the police, or personal moral codes.
Power and police are easy to document, and in some locations most likely not even the force that maintains order. In my city, it would take a long time without either for the social order to degrade, in other places its a thin veneer.
But 'kill' their religion, and no one thinks anything unpleasent would happen?