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Thread #158163   Message #3738449
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Sep-15 - 05:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Conservatives at Mudcat
Subject: RE: BS: Conservatives at Mudcat
Well I agree that true/false is not applicable to religion. It's here, that's the thing. My point really is that you can try to get to grips with the wonderful universe we live in far better without adopting a mindset that has a creator at the root of its spirituality. To put it provocatively and rather brutally, you can be a damn sight more spiritual without a God than you can with him. He simply gets in the way. Get down on your belly and explore that daisy on your lawn for fifteen minutes. Think of the billions of years it took for it to evolve. Think of those millions of chloroplasts beavering away, converting light energy to stored energy (if only we were as good at it, and we're supposed to be brainy). See how the leaves avoid shading each other, all done without a brain. Admire the objective beauty of the colours and patterns of the ray and disc florets and don't forget to have a really close look at those miniature, perfect flowers. That little weed has more true spirituality for you (if you learn to be receptive to it) coming out of its pores than a thousand heavy theological tomes full of labyrinthine argument, big words and tortuous concepts that need college courses to get your head round, and all without the slightest strain. That's what Richard Dawkins is about, and I'm right with him. That daisy will dumb you up, not dumb you down.