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In reply to the discussion: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public [View all]BlueJazz
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..., I hope you mean the ordinary meaning of the word and not the scientific meaning.
I say this because the religious humans have always stopped progress in one way or the other...and I don't mean just with Galileo.
Actually. religious people have probably caused the loss of more than a thousand years of advancement. Whether or not we, as a race, would have done anything wonderful with it is an open question.
I despise the Fairy Tellers not because they are ignorant but because they're cruel.
Being a physicist and Atheist does not make me better or smarter than any other human..(I feel like I'm an idiot sometimes) but
it does bring the feeling that when I say God is less than nothing*, I'm 99.999 percent right. I must say, I do wish I had your way with words...
*Yes..I know about "Nothing"