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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Sure, yes, believe in something-anything- because unbelievers have no moral foundation and are inherently...
http://time.com/money/4102817/altruistic-religion-charity-generous-punishment-children/
Wait, whut?
Oh. Yeah, getting back to "believe in anything"- and it doesnt matter what, does it? Just as long as you unquestioningly buy into some brand of bullshit... Yeah, that worked out great for the folks in Guyana, or the comet people who ate the poisoned applesauce and killed themselves in their track suits, didnt it?
Hey, at least they "believed in something"
News flash: it's not the doubters and skeptics and critical thinkers who are running around waging holy wars all the time. It is people who "believe in something"- true belivers, whether that be a true belief in sky wizards, dialectical materialism, or aryan supremacy, they're generally the problem.
How about this- rather than scrambling to find someone's piece of dogma to accept unquestioningly, how about thinking critically for oneself and constantly challenging not only other peoples' answers, but your own?
Honestly, that's what Hunter Thompson would have told you to do.