Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forum“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity..."
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
It's a great read.
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)since that delusion is all too real to them.
Don't forget this was dinned into their little heads before they could tell the difference between fantasy and reality and adults convinced them it was real.
Who knows? I remain convinced that for some of them it's a variation on the Third Man syndrome. Whatever it is, it gives them the delusion that they're safe in a dangerous world.
Maybe that's not a bad delusion. It only gets bad when they expect it to cure cancer of they try to force it into civil law.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)The jury voted 0-7 to Leave it Alone. Pretty fast, too.
--imm
Warpy
(110,913 posts)I thought at least some knees would jerk. I guess only one did.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Thanks for posting it. Sometimes, we need something to make our day.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)We have our own crew of net-nannies monitoring all posts in A&A for any inkling that we're not 100% behind the wonderful religions and all the wonderful religious people doing all those wonderful things.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)they actively seek out things to be offended by, apparently.
They probably just need a good ass-kicking. Know anyone who provides such services?
onager
(9,356 posts)Just bumping this thread. To gloat a little more...
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)So take that, Red Baron!
Rainforestgoddess
(436 posts)I wonder if it's still in a box somewhere?
cui bono
(19,926 posts)I don't know what spurred this thread, but it's a great book so OP gets a rec from me.
Edit: I see this is in the A&A group now... still a great book.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)I thought they didn't do that.
--imm
cui bono
(19,926 posts)If you mean my using the word "now", I meant now I see... not now it is here where as before it was somewhere else.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm