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Thread #139650   Message #3214520
Posted By: Stringsinger
29-Aug-11 - 10:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
Subject: RE: BS: Your Brain, Your Brain on God
Jack, religion is not predicated on change. The ideology remains the same.
It maintains an immutable set of principles which are inflexible. The only change that can come is when those principles are abandoned or altered. If they are altered, they become a new fixed set of principles that are not based on science.

Science is changing all the time as new discoveries are made.

A religious ideology by its very definition doesn't change; it is an arbitrary construct by someone's idea of either what the bible or other holy book is, usually a person designated to be an authority by those who advocate for the religious point of view.

The point of religious ideology is to keep everyone in line with a specific type of thinking.
Otherwise, why have it? It's a control mechanism effectively used for political purposes through the ages.

I do not advocate violence against those who have religious convictions such as those being employed against Muslims in the US. Here, I disagree with Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens.

Guns and bombs will never change minds. We should learn that lesson instead of trying to Christianize Iraq or Afghanistan by methods being employed by the elite US military.

The same goes for Judaism and Islam as these religions are being used to oppress others.