21st March 2004, 7:05 PM
Quote:On another note, I believe that atheism should be pressed onto people because it's like seeing a child trying to do a math problem. He has the wrong answer. Do you correct it for him, or just walk by, and let him get it wrong? Furthermore, I believe that if all of humanity got rid of wasteful spending and time on religious pursuits, humanity could evolve at a lightning pace--and that perhaps in just a few generations, with all of humanity and our resources properly utilized, we could be journeying to the stars, or living to be 200, and seeing out gr-gr-gr-gr-great grandchilden before our own life spans end. To me---who has no hope of life beyond death or salvation, prolonging life is the ultimate goal of humanity.
Wow.
Well, for one thing, you're not 'correcting someone who is wrong'. You're forcing your opinion on people who don't share it. You are forcing your belief on people who believe otherwise. That isn't correcting anything, when, to me, you're as wrong as you claim me to be.
Furthermore, humanity HAS evolved at a lightning pace over the last hundred years. Religion has had very little to do with it, bad or good. Technology has reached the point where such rapid advancement is possible.
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