The Atheist Delusion

[Cain]

My last girlfriend was half-French.

I suspect the problem was TOO MUCH AMERICANISM, NOT ENOUGH FRENCHISM IN THE PD.

Because France, like America/China/Russia/the UK/Germany/Italy is tEh gReAtEsT nAtIoN eVeR!!121!2

[hunter s.durden]

Italy?

I think the only people that think that Italy is the greatest are Americans.

In America, anyone with a single drop of Italian blood in their veins feels a drive to  convince you they have mafia connections.

[AFK]

Italy?

I think the only people that think that Italy is the greatest are Americans.

In America, anyone with a single drop of Italian blood in their veins feels a drive to  convince you they have mafia connections.

Or that they are master chefs because they can boil water. 

[hunter s.durden]

 

Yeah, that's the other specialty

[Cain]

Italy?

I think the only people that think that Italy is the greatest are Americans.

And Mussolini fans.

[Dido]

Italy?

I think the only people that think that Italy is the greatest are Americans.

And Mussolini fans.

Thats rude. Germans only think that Italy is TGE because they love latte macchiato.

[Golden Applesauce]

Wasn't Italy the one that lost a war to a bunch of africans?

[Politician168023]

France is cool, it's just Paris you gotta watch out for.  Buncha jerks.

Sez you.

The last Frenchie I hated was actually not even French, but a French speaking Swiss girl. Apparently just learning that language makes you an asshole.

i have thought much on this topic (i know a few languages - ooh go me=P)... the associations in language are very real for those that 'live' inside the framework, and come to the conclusion that yes. this is true.

people who are inside french are indeed assholes!

[Xooxe]

Cain = half asshole then.

[hunter s.durden]

Just half?

[LMNO]

I'm kind of worried about what that other half is, actually.

[Random Probability]

Just half?

Well, he was inside a half-French girl....

[Subtract Eight!]

Jack Cohen put forth a similar theory.  Religion was to distinguish tribes from outsiders.  If you ate fish on a Friday, or couldn't make the sign of the cross etc....you are clearly an outsider and so potentially dangerous.  Religion allowed for people to recognize those beyond their immediate family/friend ties as part of the tribe and so not dangerous.

thats the problem with religion IMO
you're not christian you go to hell
you don't believe in hell you're not christian

the only thing is this separation, lopping eternal suffering on people jesus supposedly loves.
its pretty simple, that's as deep as i need to go

[tyrannosaurus vex]

Religion is the expression of a group's collective fear of the unknown. It is this fear that drives both belief in asinine propositions (because any explanation, no matter how ridiculous, is better than no explanation at all), and the tendency to restrict and tear down individualism and personal liberty (such things can only add to the number of unknowns in the society).

Outlawing religion is pointless. If you outlaw one religion, or even an entire order of religions, it will simply be replaced by some other convenient superstition. Militant atheism, ironically, seems to believe that Religion is its own cause. But religion stems from an individual's fear of the unknown, which is translated and magnified through a larger group or society. It will exist, and be just as violent and oppressive as it is now, until people in general are able to accept the unknown without the fight-or-flight response, and that is probably never going to happen.

[hunter s.durden]

Religion is the expression of a group's collective fear of the unknown.

Mine isn't.