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Atheists & Agnostics

trotsky

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3. If only religion would just concern itself with its own "domain."

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 10:13 AM

Dec 2017

But it never does. It insists it has answers - not just suggestions, not just input, but ANSWERS - about how we are supposed to live, about what happens to us after we die, and so on.

Dawkins is absolutely right. Religion has never stayed within its sandbox. It can't. It promotes "facts" that have absolutely no way to be verified. Complete fiction is just as valid as certain truth. When it comes to living together with other humans, we have to find common ground - a framework of reality that we can ALL agree on. Science provides that framework. Religion sabotages it.

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Non-Overlapping Magisteria [View all] NeoGreen Dec 2017 OP

Time to stop being polite Bradshaw3 Dec 2017 #1

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If only religion would just concern itself with its own "domain." trotsky Dec 2017 #3

YES! uriel1972 Dec 2017 #4

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I like Dawkins' take Brainstormy Dec 2017 #6