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Why We Believe in Gods - Andy Thomson - American Atheists 09

Andy Thomson gives his talk titled 'Why We Believe in Gods' at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen. See more at http://RichardDawkins.ne...  
 
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patriot1320 (11 hours ago) Show Hide
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religious people are blind to the reality that there is not a god, the reality is Non-religious people have better morale standing than religious people. I believe that people who take to thin air, to someone who is not there needs to be put into a catatonic state and locked up. religion is a business, it plays on the minds of people, who live in fear of being punished for any sin, however you can confess your sin and feel better, that the phycology effect. religion is dengerous for this world.
lanceawatt (19 hours ago) Show Hide
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Incredible quotes there man. Nice 1!
GESTALT187 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
- Doris Egan
GESTALT187 (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
matthitte (2 days ago) Show Hide
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One day every knee will bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
mohalishaf (2 days ago) Show Hide
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or perhaps.. would WE rather evolve back to more intelligent chimpanzees..
mohalishaf (2 days ago) Show Hide
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:)Peace.. by natural selection, i guess chimpanzees don't believe in religions, since it would be relatively natural for humans to differentiate between evil and morality, either by scientific reasoning or religious faith. i think humanity would only be then natural to evolve cognitively, to even detect deception or truth, lies or righteousness in religious or any beliefs in the search for the Godly purpose of their own survival...
rbolo29 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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Heaven is a place that is timeless and operates outside our spacetime continuum. WE feel a need to escape the contraints of space,time and place; a need to escape this hell or minimize the sufferings. When we ride in our vehicles it allows us to temporarily overcome some of our natural space, place, time limitations and therefore makes us feel a little bit more free or closer to heaven so it creates an addiction. Books,music and movies also let us escape our contraints for a little while.
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God is free from the contraints of space, time and place. He lives in heaven which is a place outside the bubble of our physically limiting, contraining spacetime Universe of bondage. He is omnipresent or ubiquitous in that he is everywhere, anytime, anyplace all at once like superposition combined with supertime. God can never be proven nor disproven because he controls all the dice and will hide himself from the scientific community.
2somerandomguy2 (2 days ago) Show Hide
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@MrMeter: Just Christians? Your point is good but perhaps it extends to other groups as well

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