reply to post by fizzy1
Thanks again for the detailed reply fizzy1, i enjoy your rebuttals.
Polytheism:
Polytheism is the belief in and worship of multiple deities, called gods and goddesses.
Wiki
Why can't we extend that meaning for humans instead of some invisible entity. Anyway, it's a play with words but i think you know what i mean.
Either way is fine as its a personal matter that no man has a right to subjugate another man to a specific way of believing.
I find most religious people quite forceful with dictating their beliefs, as if we (atheists) are missing a trick.
I guess my point i was making that religion and a belief in a higher power or powers no matter what culture or time your from has guided man to excel
to a higher state.
Try telling that to the Arabs & Jews / Catholics & Protestants.
I don't think technology enlightens mankind or ever will. Example is war.
Technology just facilitates wars; makes them 'more efficient'. The underlying causality of war is territory, politics and OIL. Blow it up, then
tender bids to the same counties who instigated the atrocities and they will rebuild the infrastructures (Haliburton, KBR et al) ad infinitum. If
anything, it's just a war of logistics, a self-generation of perpetual wealth fed by the poor tax payer thinking their g'ments are doing the
honourable thing.
We have been waging war against each other on this planet for as long as recorded history.
I vehemently refute using the word 'we'. Bombing for peace is like #ing for virginity. If there were referendums asking people should 'they' go to
war, then it will be a resounding no, regardless of the possible outcomes. Yet through millennium, wars are perpetuated by TPTB regardless of populous
consensus.
if you know of an atheistic society that held high moral codes or any moral codes for that matter please post it.
What about the animal kingdom, can i get away with that

They don't seem to build religious effigies. They eat, sleep, procreate and die; it really
is as simple as that. We are all worm food at the end of the day, it's what you do in-between, that adds threads to the rich tapestry of life.
[edit on 10-6-2009 by PrisonerOfSociety]