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aarchaon · 02-05-2004, 04:26 AM

A belief in an all-powerful being that punishes you when you do bad, rewards you when you do good smacks of psychological insecurity and a deep-seated need for a parental figure. Edmund Freud was a founder of this theory, and I believe it.

There is the fact that I have never seen or heard or felt anything that could be classified as a religious experience. The discrepancies and missing information from the Bible first led me to believe that religion and God is a false premise. A belief in a power higher than yourself is built around fear and self-loathing. Flaggelation, confessing to sins, these are examples of this.

First of all, it would be impossible to have the amount of genetic variation (i.e. skin colour, shape of eyes and nose, shape and size of body, eye colour) of the human species if we all originated a few millennia ago, and we all are offspring from two, yes count them on one hand, two people. That notion is absurd, and a priest actually admitted that to be more of a meaning kind of thing rather than something to be taken literally.

Noah's Ark is another illogical parable in the Bible. Whats that, fit two of every species of animal in a boat, and enough food to feed them all for the amount of time you claim that the Earth was flooded? You have to be kidding me. Even if one base pair of each species (i.e. Cat, Dog) was to taken aboard, you still would need some kind of genetic variation (evolution) to compensate for the huge amount of different breeds of cat and dog that are present today.

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02-05-2004, 04:26 AM	#44 (permalink)
aarchaon Insane	A belief in an all-powerful being that punishes you when you do bad, rewards you when you do good smacks of psychological insecurity and a deep-seated need for a parental figure. Edmund Freud was a founder of this theory, and I believe it. There is the fact that I have never seen or heard or felt anything that could be classified as a religious experience. The discrepancies and missing information from the Bible first led me to believe that religion and God is a false premise. A belief in a power higher than yourself is built around fear and self-loathing. Flaggelation, confessing to sins, these are examples of this. First of all, it would be impossible to have the amount of genetic variation (i.e. skin colour, shape of eyes and nose, shape and size of body, eye colour) of the human species if we all originated a few millennia ago, and we all are offspring from two, yes count them on one hand, two people. That notion is absurd, and a priest actually admitted that to be more of a meaning kind of thing rather than something to be taken literally. Noah's Ark is another illogical parable in the Bible. Whats that, fit two of every species of animal in a boat, and enough food to feed them all for the amount of time you claim that the Earth was flooded? You have to be kidding me. Even if one base pair of each species (i.e. Cat, Dog) was to taken aboard, you still would need some kind of genetic variation (evolution) to compensate for the huge amount of different breeds of cat and dog that are present today. [/rant] __________________ Green. Yellow. Blue.