Thoughts on the following article?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?em&ex=1173416400&en=cbf3c613e00ba21b&ei=5087%0A
2007-03-07 07:25:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nunoyvgvna Awi
Nice assumption made. I never stated which side I believed in, but you made the assumption as to which side I belonged to.
Whose world is small now?
2007-03-07 07:58:23 · update #1
Great article! Thanks for the link!
I'm surprised to see how many people think the writer was biased one way or another. Clearly, you could come away from the article still being a believer or a non-believer.
For me (a new atheist) it just reinforces my thought that God is just a product of our minds, but that may just be my bias.
2007-03-07 09:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by skeptic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianophobia
A number of words have appeared with the suffix -phobia, in which "phobia" is understood as a negative attitude towards certain categories of people or other things, used in an analogy with the medical usage of the term. Usually these kinds of "phobia" are is described as fear, dislike, disapproval, prejudice, hatred, discrimination, or hostility towards the object of the "phobia". Often this attitude is based on prejudices and is a particular case of general xenophobia.
A fear or hatred is not always considered a phobia in the clinical sense because it is believed to be only a symptom of other psychological problems, or the result of ignorance, or of political or social beliefs. In other words, unlike clinical phobias, which are usually qualified with the word "irrational", phobias of attitude usually have roots in social relations.
www.girlshrink.com/articles/article/2381232/32498.htm
2007-03-07 15:36:40 · answer #2 · answered by rgtheisen2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think one thing they missed is a lot of the Bible was written during a time of war. The Isrealites after escaping from Egypt were told by their fathers that Isreal is their promised land, promised to Abraham. So with this story in hand they felt that God was on their side when they went to war, and when they won those wars they were sure God was with them.
Fact is someone had to win those wars, and now all that we have is their belief that a God helped them murder innocent tribes simply because a God had told them they were on their "promised land."
Disgusting.
2007-03-07 15:36:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do I think? What makes Robin Marantz Henig qualified to tell me what I believe? Why should I take Robin's beliefs over my own? Why do you waste time reading this nonsense?
2007-03-07 15:31:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read that this weekend. Liked it a lot! It reinforced my already-held knowledge that there is no god and religion is a flaw in the human brain.
2007-03-07 15:28:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we have 6.5 BILLION on this earth....and 3 men are right?
that means we believe in .....the number is so small it extends out 10 spots past the calculator.
so let just say you follow .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of the earth and what they say and believe?
small world you live in
2007-03-07 15:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the Science. The one GOD Science.
2007-03-07 15:52:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It presents a valid question... have we evolved the need to believe in a god?
2007-03-07 15:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋