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And I was all like 'Oh yeah?' and Maradon! was all like:
Maybe I read that wrong but it certainly sounds to me like it's blaming atheists for every major conflict in the 20th century.

Other than that we're in agreement in not knowing how all that other stuff works!

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The Enlightenment view of man isn't really a-theistic. For the most part, it shoves external powers to the side and defines the theistic force in the universe as the progressive endeavors of man. This is a gross generalization--Comte, Robespierre, Rousseau, and Condorcet all had vastly different opinions about it, but it's a passable generalization.

It was more of the British empiricists (Berkley, Locke, and Hume) that were the forerunners of a-theism (whether God is or no doesn't so much matter to them, they don't care 'cause they can't study him), but they only really formed the scientific epistemology that we inherited.

Even Nietzche's dictum that God is dead isn't so much atheistic bombastary, but social commentary on Comte's impact.

Hope that helps clear it up.

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Taeldian had this to say about the Spice Girls:
The existance of a million dollars is provable.

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Yeah, but a million dollars isn't the supernatural

or a deity

Gadani fucked around with this message on 07-09-2008 at 01:58 AM.

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Maradon!'s momma would never want to hear them say:
Maybe I read that wrong but it certainly sounds to me like it's blaming atheists for every major conflict in the 20th century.

Other than that we're in agreement in not knowing how all that other stuff works!

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That's Ok, though, because you can blame religion for every major conflict from the 1st though 19th centuries.

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Gadani had this to say about pies:
Yeah, but a million dollars isn't the supernatural

or a deity

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lawl

There is a natural order of things, all things--and it can be revealed in part through scientific inquiry. Somehow I doubt all the secrets of existence will be revealed, but most of them will be, in time. The natural universe is filled with infinite wonders, violently indifferent, of which even a cursory understanding is far better than any supernatural folly.

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Blindy. had this to say about Pirotess:
That's Ok, though, because you can blame religion for every major conflict from the 1st through 19th 21st centuries.

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Vernaltemptress fucked around with this message on 07-09-2008 at 02:36 PM.

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Nobody really understood why Blindy. wrote:
That's Ok, though, because you can blame religion for every major conflict from the 1st (-)99th though 1billionmilliontrillion9th centuries.

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Gadani fucked around with this message on 07-09-2008 at 03:20 PM.

Gadani fucked around with this message on 07-10-2008 at 01:22 AM.

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Gadani had this to say about dark elf butts:
Yeah, but a million dollars isn't the supernatural

or a deity

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k?

I'm trying to figure out why that matters. The comparison is retarded either way.

Taeldian fucked around with this message on 07-10-2008 at 03:20 AM.

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Taeldian had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
k?

I'm trying to figure out why that matters. The comparison is retarded either way.

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I completely agree, the million dollars comparison is stupid.

I'm just saying it's also stupid to try to (dis)prove the supernatural by natural means.

Dedicating my life to something when nothing in the entire world even suggests it even exists is not a good way to take advantage of that intelligence.

Yes, I'm calling God a Wizard because it's ridiculous no matter what you name it.

And I wonder if, perhaps, heaven is the pleasure I feel whenever someone who posts on this messageboard feels pain.

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Steven Steve's complete misunderstanding of life manifested itself when they said:
AND THE RELIGION TO BLAME IS JUDAISM

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haha jews are jewish.