Also I think we can agree that Ricky Gervais and Bill Maher aren’t helping anything.

lol

I had to google bonobos.

I like your thinking

i don’t know. i don’t actually listen to her

/clicks link
//closes office door

You lost me here.

I had to google bonobos.

There’s a reason why you never see a family of Bonobos in church.

You lost me here.

I agree with this in part…but there were a lot of advancements that were prevented by religion as well.

Gravity has destroyed more than any bomb ever created in that sense it might have prevented many advancements however without gravity its difficult to imagine any basis to advance from.

I just don’t think a no religion option was ever available to us if we intended to be where we are today. There’s a reason why you never see a family of Bonobos in church.

got_em_looking is a most underutilized commenter on here. Always well reasoned guy, whether I agree or not.

Thanks you sir

/picks up a towel and goes back to end of the bench.

The continuation of making Die Hard movies

Another reason to go atheist.

i like discussing spirituality and deities, and am certainly open to there being a higher power, but i prefer to believe that our decisions and actions have far more to do with our lives than puppet strings or return on prayer investment

in short, i believe in people power

Depends on what you think the cause of terrorism is

I predict that by the end of the 2013 football season, the leading cause of terrorism in Louisiana will be Cam Cameron’s football follies.

For us to be here intelligently arguing about religion, religion had to exist to allow civilized society to flourish in key points in our development where law enforcement or even our own sense of right and wrong wasn’t advanced enough to foster the survival of the complex societies we have today.

Your post was excellent overall, and this is the key takeaway. To me, religion is a societal vestigial tail, an entity that served its purpose and now has no worthwhile function.

If there is a god, he’s at best a chronic underachiever and at worst a murderous scumbag.

This is true for those who believe in the omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent god. For those that believe that is the god that exists, they have to be disappointed. Too many kids getting cancer for that shit to fly.

Murderous scumbag is a bit much, but still, I like the cut of your jib.

what about capitaligion? lotsa rich born agains, conservatives, right wingers. the two are a winning combo

/agnostic and middle class

This is much better than allowing women to take the pill.

we’re getting a game of pickup hoops in 5. Don’t pass it to Hitler…he’s terrible. I know, I know…but he repented right before he killed himself.”

This slayed me.