Sunday, 17 July 2005
"Why I Deny Religion, How Silly and Fantastic It Is, and Why I'm a Dedicated and Vociferous Bright"
It's been two years since Randi made clear his thoughts and stand on religion. It's an article worth rereading each year.
An excerpt:
[I]t was the incredible stories I was told, that really made me rear back in disbelief. For examples, they told me, some 2,000 years ago a mid-East virgin was impregnated by a ghost of some sort, and as a result produced a son who could walk on water, raise the dead, turn water into wine, and multiply loaves of bread and fishes. All that was in addition to tossing out demons. He expected and accepted a brutal, sadistic, death — and then he rose from the dead.
There was much, much, more. Adam and Eve, they said, were the original humans, plunked down in a garden to start our species going. But I didn't understand, and still don't, that they had only two children, both sons — and one of them killed the other — yet somehow they produced enough people to populate the Earth, without incest, which was a big no-no! Then some prophet or other made the Earth stop turning, an army blew horns until a wall fell down, a guy named Moses made the Red Sea divide in two, and made frogs fall out of the sky….
I needn't go on. And that's only a small start on one religion! The Wizard of Oz is more believable. And more fun.
The title of his article says it all. Call me a copycat but I cannot but echo Randi. I too am a vociferous bright, and I cannot fathom how it is that much of the world is under the spell of supernaturalism and other weird beliefs.
06:00 Posted in Atheism, Critical Thinking, Skepticism | Permalink | Comments (2) | Email this | Tags: religion
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Hi there! Just a small comment: in the Bible it says that Adam and Eve were the first people who God created on Earth, but not the last. And what comes to the miracles you picted: miracles still happen today, so why couldn't there be miracles in Bible days?
Posted by: Andreas | Saturday, 24 September 2005
Adam and Eve were not the only humans directly created by the Judeo-Christian deity? Hmmm, I don't think I've heard that one before. Who were the others? Maybe you can point me to the pertinent verses. Thanks.
As for miracles, there is yet to be a case that can be substantiated and "proven" to be truly of supernatural nature/origin.
Posted by: Edwardson | Saturday, 24 September 2005
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