The New Pope!
(feigning shock and elation) Awesome. We've traded King Cocks of the most corrupt, worthless international pyramid scheme of anti-scientific powermongers bent on the continual subjugation of mankind to a make-believe Sky Fairy whose manners and ideals no better than yours or mine.
I'll save my little dance for when we quit believing some old fart with a magic pointy hat is the conduit to the wisdom of the universe.
*sigh*
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UPDATE:
I'm just saying if someone's going to call an entity God he ought to be somebody worth looking up to, not someone who throws hissy fits and destroys stuff when he (sorry, He) gets mad. Or contradicts himself literally and philosophically at every turn.
I don't know how we got here, and nobody else does, either, so why make up such a dumb story as Creation (which is really a variation on several other earlier pagan creation stories)? At least evolution makes decent sense at an intellectual level, and has the least number of unfounded assumptions. If there is a God, he would have done it way cooler, like, with lazers and robots anyway.
When you die, that's it--whether you believe God flicked a booger and created the world or cosmic dust bunnies humped each other in space...you still die. You don't climb up Heaven's Chimney or drink from the Razzleberry Fountain In The Sky. These are man-made constructs of our subconscious because we don't want to confront death. Religion's a poor coping mechanism at best, and an unrestrained inflicter of misery and poverty at worst.
...hence the and-don't-even-get-me-started-about-some-guy-who-is-now-god's-infallable-representative-on-earth-not-by-a-booming-voice-from-the-sky-but-democratically-elected-by-a-bunch-of-other-morons tone in the post earlier...but then if you're reading this, you probably expected that.
I'll save my little dance for when we quit believing some old fart with a magic pointy hat is the conduit to the wisdom of the universe.
*sigh*
---
UPDATE:
I'm just saying if someone's going to call an entity God he ought to be somebody worth looking up to, not someone who throws hissy fits and destroys stuff when he (sorry, He) gets mad. Or contradicts himself literally and philosophically at every turn.
I don't know how we got here, and nobody else does, either, so why make up such a dumb story as Creation (which is really a variation on several other earlier pagan creation stories)? At least evolution makes decent sense at an intellectual level, and has the least number of unfounded assumptions. If there is a God, he would have done it way cooler, like, with lazers and robots anyway.
When you die, that's it--whether you believe God flicked a booger and created the world or cosmic dust bunnies humped each other in space...you still die. You don't climb up Heaven's Chimney or drink from the Razzleberry Fountain In The Sky. These are man-made constructs of our subconscious because we don't want to confront death. Religion's a poor coping mechanism at best, and an unrestrained inflicter of misery and poverty at worst.
...hence the and-don't-even-get-me-started-about-some-guy-who-is-now-god's-infallable-representative-on-earth-not-by-a-booming-voice-from-the-sky-but-democratically-elected-by-a-bunch-of-other-morons tone in the post earlier...but then if you're reading this, you probably expected that.


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