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originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: jrflipjr
Fair enough. But there are no repeatable predictable experiments in religion. Hell you kinda made my point with your definition of hypothesis. Faith since it's not testable doesn't even qualify as a hypothesis. So they arnt the same.
Science doesn't use faith. There's no need. If you think some thing is true. First you try and disprove it. Then you make predictions to validate it.
Religion has never done either.... At least no successfully.
The main reason I'm a science atheist is because after literally thousands of years of religion running society and every religious person on the planet trying to find and present some proof... Any proof. What do we have? Debunked Bronze Age accounts of miracles. That science has proven the testable events wrong.
On the other hand science hasn't even been " in charge" ( science has never had complete control as religion did for millinia) a century yet and look at what they have accomplished. EVERYTHING!
originally posted by: ArtemisE
So what side do you fall on?
originally posted by: ArtemisE
1: religion is all one big conspiracy to control us.
2: religion is the truth and pretty much everything else is a big conspiracy to control us and turn us away from god.
originally posted by: WanDash
Category #3 - Everything, including religion, is a conspiracy
Category #4 - My particular conviction is a conspiracy...and everything-else isn't.
originally posted by: Murgatroid...My answer: Everything, including religion, is a conspiracy to control us and turn us away from god.
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The answer though really depends on how you define the word "religion".
...When I think of the word, I think of mind control.
...Religion IS a HUGE mind control tool designed to steer you AWAY from the truth.
originally posted by: WanDash
originally posted by: Murgatroid...My answer: Everything, including religion, is a conspiracy to control us and turn us away from god.
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The answer though really depends on how you define the word "religion".
...When I think of the word, I think of mind control.
...Religion IS a HUGE mind control tool designed to steer you AWAY from the truth.
Thanks, Murgatroid - was beginning to think I'd found the perfect way to contribute INVISIBLE posts.
When you think of "religion" - you think of 'mind control'. Can't say I disagree...but, might expand/limit the concept to "crowd control". If everyone believing a certain set of 'principles' (or otherwise) was doing it on their own (individually), no nefariously-inspired 'mass movements' of those individuals could be 'counted on'. You kind of have to get them all agreeing that they agree with each other...to get them to agree to 'move' with each other.
Not contradicting (I don't think) your statement - just putting my twist on it.
Thanks again!
Originally posted by DumbTopSecretWriters
The Illuminati have an agenda to make people intolerant to religion, and it is constantly being mocked in the media. People are being conditioned using clever psychological techniques into believing that religion is nothing more than fables of the ancients. Destroying the belief in God is their top priority. They want to make religion irrelevant by discouraging people to study it because the deeper someone looks into religions, the more they see the truth behind them which ultimately reveals more about the Illuminati’s purpose and goals. Do not fall prey to such conditioning. If you already have, then you need your bhoota slapped with a chappal to sort you out.