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Fear and Disinformation: Remember Chernobyl?

Posted in Critical Thinking, History, Psychology, tagged , , , , on February 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The Chernobyl disaster is known as the worst nuclear plant disaster in human history, and adjusting for inflation, is the costliest human disaster in history. It also, according to records, released “four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.”
These are all superlative descriptions. How much do we [...]

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Avoiding The God Question

Posted in Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Religion, Science, tagged , , , , on January 31, 2009 | 20 Comments »

Remember how we discussed how the God vs. Science debate seems to be simply a question of convenience (albeit psychological) rather than a question of truth? Well, recently blogger Star Larvae had an interesting email exchange that highlighted this:
People I encounter who have an interest in speculative cosmology, or whatever we might call our endeavor, [...]

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Is God Above the Law?

Posted in Religion, tagged , , on October 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This is a post i found in a ‘Pinoyexchange’ website.
bold is mine
http://www.pinoyexchange.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30569050&posted=1#post30569050
God the Father through His one and only Begotten Son Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit solely and singularly created this Universe for His own good pleasure and will.
As such, God owns and possesses this Universe that we live in. [...]

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A Letter From Hell

Posted in Psychology, Relationships, Religion, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Further to a previous discussion on religious belief due to fear here is an interesting video about fear mongering done in the name of religious faith:

Note in this case, it isn’t even sin that condemns the poor sap, just plain ignorance.
Scary, but not for the reasons the video blatantly suggests.

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Religious Belief Due to Fear?

Posted in Psychology, Religion, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »

http://forum.philboxing.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=110093

YAKMAN wrote:
We recognize the terrible and vengeful God that’s why we do not want to antagonize him.

gejable wrote:
Let me add to this, bro, just in case some may think that’s the only reason why we believe. There are actually four, the next three, I suppose are deeper reasons why:
1. holy fear – which is quite [...]

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