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Atheists & Agnostics

mountain grammy

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4. and this: even Wikipedia, for pete's sake!!!

Reply to beam me up scottie (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2015, 08:33 AM

May 2015

Imagine how much learning could be acquired if one bothered to read real books (or even Wikipedia) that talked about astronomy or evolution or why religions are evil. But for most people, acquiring new information - especially knowledge that challenges their long-held beliefs - is anathema. They would rather watch television soaps featuring feuding saas-bahus or the IPL.

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'Difficult to be unbeliever in religious India': From an atheist [View all] beam me up scottie May 2015 OP

And they have lotsa nukes... Helen Borg May 2015 #1

we are at least as religious as they are and we have many more nukes. Warren Stupidity May 2015 #2

Untrue ... Helen Borg May 2015 #5

I don't want to get into a duel over polls beam me up scottie May 2015 #6

Or was that the number of idiots that believe in angels.... truebrit71 May 2015 #10

"Once you acquire some basic science education, religious explanations look positively primitive" RussBLib May 2015 #3

I'm so glad Al Gore invented the interwebs. beam me up scottie May 2015 #7

and this: even Wikipedia, for pete's sake!!! mountain grammy May 2015 #4

I used to spend hours reading our ancient set of encyclopedias when I was a kid. beam me up scottie May 2015 #8

yeah. I think we would have been mountain grammy May 2015 #9

A generation of Superheroes... Lordquinton May 2015 #11