'Why We Need Religion'

[floo]

Strange occurences...Prodigious powers....
Are you making a pitch to become the David Icke of atheism?

What on earth are you on about now?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I do remember being in a white canvas sided cot in the maternity hospital with the nurse looking down at me. I didn't feel scared.

If you remember the sixties...You weren't there.

[floo]

If you remember the sixties...You weren't there.

I was born in 1950!

[Nearly Sane]

I was born in 1950!

It's a quote, and it's joking that if you got through the 60s without being chemically enhanced to the extent that you don't have clear memories of them, then you missed the point.


https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/07/remember-1960s/

[floo]

It's a quote, and it's joking that if you got through the 60s without being chemically enhanced to the extent that you don't have clear memories of them, then you missed the point.


https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/07/remember-1960s/

I know I have heard it often enough. I remember the 60s well, I wasn't off my head on alcohol and drugs like some people.

[Robbie]

You'd have surely been too young for all that, LR, except maybe towards the end of the sixties.
I was a child but older cousins have many 1960s anecdotes which I've always loved hearing about - but not everyone was drunk or stoned all the time, there were limits for most & everyone matures to some extent.

The seventies were pretty good, for me 1974 particularly and onwards; I enjoyed but have to say I've enjoyed nearly all of my life so far.

We've strayed off topic, never mind, back to religion.

[jeremyp]

What emotional security can you base on science? Emotion is in the world of oughts, science is neutral to that.

It gives me great emotional security to have an alternative to believing there is a capricious maniac "up there" who would destroy my life on a whim.

[jeremyp]

And I disagree with that premise. I think the writer offers a false dichotomy. But that doesn't mean I think that science and man's achievements offer emotional security.

fortunately, you only need one counter example to disprove a hypothesis, and here I am. Perhaps Susan makes two.

[SusanDoris]

fortunately, you only need one counter example to disprove a hypothesis, and here I am. Perhaps Susan makes two.

Yes, I do!

[Walt Zingmatilder]

It gives me great emotional security to have an alternative to believing there is a capricious maniac "up there" who would destroy my life on a whim.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Equation of science with atheism.
probably the biggest argumentum ad populum in atheism.

[jeremyp]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Equation of science with atheism.
probably the biggest argumentum ad populum in atheism.

Sorry but if you'll need to explain how my post equates science and atheism.

[Sassy]

The interview doesn't really give much of a case.




https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/76597-why-an-agnostic-philosopher-says-we-re-all-religious.html

You would have nothing to talk about on this forum for a start and even fewer people to insult or rag.