And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.
~Thomas Jefferson
i hope sooner than later...but with 2 billion of them.....when?
2007-10-23 11:27:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it might completely go away. didn't zeus and thor? or are there still people that believe in them? and this isn't me, honey...sorry....its someone much smarter than you and me. its jefferson.
2007-10-23 11:36:37 · update #1
Well THAT'S a new misspelling of "atheists": the h and t switched around instead of the i and e.
Seriously though, I like the quote. There are still people in the world who think the earth is flat so...keep waiting.
2007-10-23 11:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Say, wasn't Thomas Jefferson one of those "Christian founding fathers" I keep hearing about who established the United States as a "Christian nation"? Along with Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin? :-)
To answer your question, the sooner the better. But I'm afraid we still have at least 3 or 4 more generations until that superstitious claptrap is marginalized to the outer fringes of society where it belongs.
2007-10-23 11:38:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a neurological disorder.
There are isolated cases of "conversion" from religion to reason; but for the most part, once that way of thinking has been drilled into one's brains, one is virtually incapable of escaping from it.
There is no common ground for an intellectual discussion between a rationalist and a religionist - as this forum abundantly demonstrates. The quality of mind is different; the plane of thought is different. The rationalist bases everything on mind; and the religionist sneers "The carnal mind is enmity against God."
To make a long answer short (too late), I'm not very optimistic about the prospects of America suddenly "seeing the light." After all, the only reason all these people are "Christian" today is because centuries ago the religion was imposed by force upon the peasant populace.
2007-10-23 11:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
"ahteists[sic]...when will this day happen?"
Not in my lifetime or yours.
Thor and Zeus went out the back door while xianity was coming in the front door.
Many people need an invisible friend; many feel a security in a delusion.
Ultimately they are doing it on their own BUT they believe that are doing it with the help of their invisible man.
Weird, huh?
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2007-10-23 11:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully sometime in the near future. Thomas Jefferson was a genius in my book.
2007-10-23 11:33:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
It will happen eventually, if the religious nuts that actually hoping for the annihilation of earth do no get their way
or if a plague or meteor or gamma ray burst dont kill us first
I say 1400 years
2007-10-23 11:32:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Jefferson, religion sucks.
2007-10-23 11:39:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
My guess is within the next one hundred and fifty years.
2007-10-23 11:37:52 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn B 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We cant take the scaffolding down...we're waiting for a skip.
2007-10-23 11:35:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not in my life time unfortunately. We will probably get killed by a gamma burst or be sucked into a black hole before then though.
2007-10-23 11:33:50 · answer #10 · answered by draconum321 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋