Officially OT -> Re:My fiscal responcibility...

[James Knott]

J. Schaap wrote:
>>"Mnay people have such beliefs, simply because they've been brainwashed
> 
> all their lives with such things."<
> 
> Judging you by your own standards:
> 
> Many people have such *unbeliefs*, simply because they've been
> brainwashed all their lives with such things.
> 

OK, where are the proofs that the Bible is not simply a collection of 
fiction?  With science, the goal is to continually refine the knowledge, 
not simply accept "that's the way it is", unlike religion, where you're 
supposed to accept, without question.

One of the principal causes of the dark ages, was the imposition of 
ignorance, by the church.  Ever wonder why only the Christian world was 
afflicted by that great loss of knowledge?  Ever wonder why the Arab 
world flourished back in those days, only to similarly flounder, when 
their beliefs became dominant?  A few hundred years ago, it was accepted 
knowledge that the world was flat, even though others had earlier proven 
otherwise.  The teachings of the church were that the earth was the 
center of the universe.  Those falacies and others have fallen, simply 
because people such as Galeleo, Coperinicus and others were willing to 
stand up to what religion taught as being correct.

Then we get to religious frauds, such as the Shroud of Turin, which for 
centuries was held as an article of faith, by the Catholic church, only 
to be shown to be the fraud that it was, when science was allowed to be 
applied.  The history of religion is full of such deception.  Perhaps 
that's because it's entire foundation is fraudulent.

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