Have a gander at this:

[Ricky Spanish]

... watch this video:  https://youtu.be/oqFAtWk0sPk

You will laugh at their absolute misunderstanding of what nature is..

[Leonard James]

These are people whose ability to reason has been addled by daft religious stories. There is little we can do for them, but we must fight to prevent the younger generation from having their collective minds poisoned in the same way.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

These are people whose ability to reason has been addled by daft religious stories. There is little we can do for them, but we must fight to prevent the younger generation from having their collective minds poisoned in the same way.

What a strange and mildly Stalinist sentiment.

[Leonard James]

What a strange and mildly Stalinist sentiment.

What else would you expect from a strange person? 

Although I'm not sure what you are referring to as Stalinist.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

What else would you expect from a strange person? 

Although I'm not sure what you are referring to as Stalinist.

I think there is an ongoing debate about what it is safe for young people to hear at university.
Yes there are laws against religious extremism but even those make it clear they are not against religion.

Stalin made such laws and imho you advocate them also.

If not why are you unhappy with present legislation.

[Leonard James]

I think there is an ongoing debate about what it is safe for young people to hear at university.
Yes there are laws against religious extremism but even those make it clear they are not against religion.

Stalin made such laws and imho you advocate them also.

If not why are you unhappy with present legislation.

It should be obvious to even you that children are genetically inclined to absorb instructions from their carers simply to maximise their chance of survival. Their minds should not be lumbered with useless beliefs which can well affect their whole future.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

It should be obvious to even you that children are genetically inclined to absorb instructions from their carers simply to maximise their chance of survival. Their minds should not be lumbered with useless beliefs which can well affect their whole future.

That's just your own asserted opinion.

[Shaker]

May I refer the honourable MEMBER from Leicester to my reply number 6

...bored of your pantheism thread already?

That'll be the meaningless drivel of yours that I replied to, I guess?

In fact, with you gone from it now (let's see how long that lasts) I'm looking forward to the thread being left to those with a genuine interest in the subject capable of asking honestly-intentioned questions and making intelligent points.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I'm looking forward to the thread being left to those with a genuine interest in the subject capable of asking honestly-intentioned questioned and making intelligent points.

Ah, so that's why you've come off the pantheist thread.

[jeremyp]

... watch this video:  https://youtu.be/oqFAtWk0sPk

It's over 50 minutes long. I watched the first 30 seconds and  I already resent the video for 30 seconds of my life gone.

The first sentence of the narration says that the future of the Earth is already written. If that is true, there's no point in trying to do anything about it. It's a thesis of despair. I think Vlad's reply number 6 is the appropriate response to its makers.

[Gordon]

Moderator:

This thread seems to have experienced a derail this afternoon - so in the hope that the discussion ambles back in the general direction of the OP I'm going to remove the relevant posts.

Will lock the thread temporarily while I do this.

Update: done.

[ippy]

I think this kind of exposure to American religious people as a group are showing how really silly they are and think how many of us there are in this world that have more than two brain cells, all that's needed to, well, enjoy a laugh at just the first few seconds alone of this infantile nonsense.

They're rather a sad bunch and it makes them even more sad if they think this fantasy of theirs will make them any less of a laughing stock than they already are.

ippy

[OH MY WORLD!]

The good news is that atheism is continuing to decline. You are a dying breed ippy, just like the SHAKERS.(snork)

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-study-atheists-decline-only-18-world-population-2020

Happy dance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UsHDwOVk2A

[Sebastian Toe]

but not in the west and by 2050;

In the same time period, the population of non-believers -- atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion -- is forecast to increase by merely 100 million -- from 1.1 billion in 2010 to 1.2 billion in 2050. In percentage terms, this would mean a drop from 16 percent of the global population in 2010 to 13 percent of the population in 2050.

However, in many countries across Europe and North America, the population of religiously unaffiliated is projected to increase as a share of the population. In the U.S., for example, their population would grow from 16 percent in 2010 to 26 percent in 2050.
http://www.ibtimes.com/pew-survey-predicts-rise-atheism-us-europe-despite-growing-religiosity-worldwide-1869696

Tickled by the Tikis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8FWvcZt3Yk

[ippy]

The good news is that atheism is continuing to decline. You are a dying breed ippy, just like the SHAKERS.(snork)

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/global-study-atheists-decline-only-18-world-population-2020

Happy dance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UsHDwOVk2A

Even if that were so, it doesn't alter the stupidity of the people I was referring to in my post 11on this thread Woody.

ippy

[Leonard James]

"Atheism is in decline worldwide, with the number of atheists falling from 4.5% of the world’s population in 1970 to 2.0% in 2010 and projected to drop to 1.8% by 2020, according to a new report by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass."

What else would you expect them to "find"? For such a survey to have any credence it should be conducted by a neutral organisation, not a group of people all suffering from the same biased view.

[Bubbles]

... watch this video:  https://youtu.be/oqFAtWk0sPk

You will laugh at their absolute misunderstanding of what nature is..

I then went on to find something even funnier.

http://youtu.be/PqPvT5XcHZU


The cern " dance of destruction" is hilarious.

Apparently ( according to the video)  they all saw apparitions at cern, and do this funny dance when firing up.

Further on it resembles the ministry of funny walks ( monty Python? )

 

Watched all of it, very weird.

Do people really believe all this stuff?

Sometimes I think they do it for attention.

Selling books is lucrative, no matter what twaddle is in it, I guess.

I can see Stephen Hawking said something about the God particle ( as they claim) , but tbh I have no idea what's he really meant either 

Anyone care to translate? I was curious what Stephen Hawking actually meant, not that I'm any wiser.....

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a11217/what-stephen-hawking-really-said-about-destroying-the-universe-17192502/



The only vacuum I'm aware of is the one in my brain when it comes to this sort of stuff......

I suppose other people, like on the video pretend they know.

I just can't be bothered!

None of it makes much sense, I'm going to have a cup of tea.

I can cope with that!

[Bubbles]

I think some Australian paper quoted Stephen Hawking thinking out of context from some preface of a book he had written before, and it's gone from there.

He hasn't objected to cern because he thinks it's dangerous IMO, and was just disappointed because the results were too predictable or ordinary.

From that we have the video claiming he supports their veiw of demons from another dimension using dark matter and cell phone transmitters to influence your brain into going psycho....... With staff at cern doing some funny dances to pull Satan through the cern collider. 

I think I have it now 

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a11217/what-stephen-hawking-really-said-about-destroying-the-universe-17192502/

Amazing what a cup of tea can do......... Never mind cern