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Thread #131699   Message #2973928
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
27-Aug-10 - 08:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
I have no religion, olddood - Humanity is the whole of the case and all religion was made up by human beings. You only find religion in a human context - I gaze up at the stars, look at the trees or listen to the birds and there's nothing there in least bit religious, although the religious might tell you about this wrathful/benign/all-loving/all-hating/all-powerful creator who made it all, and gave us free will only to send us to hell if we actually use it. The spiritual is the consequence of inadequate sensory aperatus coupled with our instinctive fear of death and the unknown, all of which seems fair enough to me. Otherwise, I take a keen interest in the cultural & human manifestations of religion & spend a good deal of time rooting around medieval churches & listening to otherwise 'sacred music'; I have sung plain chant and Gelineau Psalm Tones with the Benedictine monks of Worth Abbey and told of fantastic miracles acounted for in the Cantigas de Santa Maria. It's rich and fascinating for sure but no more or less so than Foghorn Leghorn or the animations of Max Fliescher.

There is no Atheist Dogma though - only the common Truth that all religions are as wrong as they are manifestly absurd.