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Originally Posted by BigBen
Is it suddenly cool to not believe in God? Did I miss a meeting? You folks think it is an empowerment thing?
My faith in humanity is a little shaken, looking at the poll results. I need to go read the responses now.
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Is it cool to train your brain so it believs in the barking mad and you become a religious person?
I think I look at religious people with the same suspicion that you look at atheists.
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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
— Albert Einstein
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