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AtheistCrusader

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7. I didn't do that.

Reply to goldent (Reply #4)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 01:37 AM

Nov 2014

I said it CAN be. (In agreement with Krauss that it is possible.) I didn't say we must or should.

Edit; obviously I am biased, and obviously I would prefer such an outcome, but I'm not proselytizing about it. I pointed out why the precondition Krauss specified isn't happening and won't happen, and thus the outcome won't happen.

There's another factor I didn't mention, but, also, humans appear somehow predisposed to faith. Not universal, but statistically measurable, and childhood teaching cannot account for all of it.

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Atheist scientist claims religion will be gone in a generation. Is he right? [View all] hrmjustin Nov 2014 OP

I don't think humans okasha Nov 2014 #1

well it's an if statement el_bryanto Nov 2014 #2

Interestingly enough, okasha Nov 2014 #6

Sleight of hand going on in the headline. AtheistCrusader Nov 2014 #3

Can you take the indoctrination talk to another group? goldent Nov 2014 #4

I didn't do that. AtheistCrusader Nov 2014 #7

Here is what you said that I think is offensive goldent Nov 2014 #15

I would not equate indoctrination and child abuse. AtheistCrusader Nov 2014 #16

Without critical evaluation might be a bit of a sticking point el_bryanto Nov 2014 #17

Have you also noticed the disturbing trend of children reciting the Gettysburg Address. WTF? rug Nov 2014 #5

Agreed on both points. AtheistCrusader Nov 2014 #8

Civics can be indoctrinated, if that is the right term, as easily as religion. rug Nov 2014 #10

I would call them Nationalism, and I don't impart that AtheistCrusader Nov 2014 #11

And there's a good argument against conventional patriotism, as it enables jingoism and exclusion. rug Nov 2014 #14

You read that differently than I did el_bryanto Nov 2014 #12

Oh I absolutely don't want the state to meddle there. AtheistCrusader Nov 2014 #13

Lol, they've been saying that for centuries. Union Scribe Nov 2014 #9