Only for the proles. Proletariat class needs to be given "good" & "bad". They are incapable of deciding these things on their own.
Higher functioning people don't need to pretend a make-believe invisible man in the sky is judging you based on some stone tablets that define "good" & "bad". Higher functioning people understand the logical fallacy that these stone tablets are the correct ones and the thousands of stone tablets that came before them are the wrong ones.
In short, religion exists for idiots. Most of the planet is filled with idiots, so yeah they need religion.
Classic strawman argument. No one seriously believes that there is some “invisible man in the sky.” it is much more profound than that and anyone who believes in a creator knows this. And when it comes to your “stone tablets” strawman, he asked about faith, not religion. There is a huge benefit to faith. One of the most obvious and simplest forms is the fact that a placebo drug can work almost as effectively, if not as effectively, as a real drug simply because of belief. This can translate into many facets of life
You're gonna have to be a bit more specific on what you're calling a strawman, chief.
You're playing semantic games, as your particular mental disability is oft to do, so lets be very clear.
I thought I made it pretty clear. You are blatantly misrepresenting the subject matter at hand. He is asking about faith and your answers talking about invisible men in the sky and fighting over which stone tablet is correct. Any moderately intelligent person knows that faith/ belief and religion are two different things, and he even made the distinction between God and faith in his initial question.
Yep, and that’s why all of the smart people in the world are fulfilled and happy. They have everything figured out.
Typical low-IQ logical fallacy.
Nobody is happy, dude. The religious morons simply are unhappy together, while the higher functional people are unhappy by themselves.
Notice, I never called them smarter people - just higher functional people. You're the one who threw the extras in there, champ.
Room-temp IQ.
Gosh look at me. I’m so dumb that I don’t understand when someone casts the words “idiot” “low functioning” and “low IQ” at someone that they are not referring to their cognitive abilities. Oh, please, great word smith, please castigate me further from beneath the brim of your mighty fedora. Please explain to me how I’m too simple minded to understand anything you’re espousing here. Because, obviously I’m just too dumb to even understand what you’re saying.
Yea, no, it certainly sounds like you have it all figured out. You seem very “high functioning”, and I’m so very impressed by your outlook on the world. No one’s happy? I’ve been wrong this entire time.
Well, it’sSunday. Guess I’ll just go hang out with some of my “room-temp IQ” friends and we’ll conspire to pretend to be happy together. after church, I might just invite a couple of them and their low-functioning families over for lunch.
I’m unhappy with lots of friends. We also find things within life to be happy about. A good scotch. A good cigar. A fun game of chess. Retarded things our kids are doing.
Do you believe in a creator that created reality on purpose from something or that there is no creator and we evolved on accident from nothing? Simple question.
I believe we're all living in a simulation, and you have zero ability to prove that you didn't pop into existence a mere few seconds ago with all the previous memories being implanted in you.
So you believe this reality was created by a creator for some purpose and the creator is a programmer. Helps to know where others stand. I don't see how that is really any different from theist beliefs. Any idea what the purpose this simulation has?
I don't think the elites and upper class of society should be allowed to decide good or bad on their own. History has shown that they tend to choose poorly when they can get away with it, and everyone suffers when that happens.
Ok. I don't think the elites should decide anything for anyone else, either.
Nobody should tell you what to do. We should all be free.
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