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Light pollution cause of increased atheism

 
 
 
braces_for_impact said:
Light pollution cause of increased atheism
http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/2016/08/17/light-pollution-cause-of-increased-atheism

So, I thought rabbis were supposed to be better educated and wiser than their Christian apologist counterparts. Apparently not.
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My years of backpacking and observing lots of things, including the night sky far from lights, were instrumental in my becoming atheist. Talk of gods and religion and all the canned stories seemed so puny compared to what I was witnessing. This guy is a bit loony imho.
 
I say we embrace this philosophy. Maybe the religious will just wander off to live in the woods and leave the rest of us alone.
 
They are on to something here.

Many thousands of years in the future, this planet will be visited by extraterrestrial explorers, but we will be gone. The report will be short.

This planet was once home to an advanced species, who were slow to rise in the food chain, but once technologies were developed, assumed complete control over the planet and environment. The turning point was the invention of artificial light. In a few centuries, they were able to light their environments 24 hours a day. Deprived of natural darkness, they began a slow descent into madness, which led to their eventual extinction.
 
I was born in the South Chicago suburbs. I had never seen what a real sky had looked like until it was shown to me at Adler planetarium. I had always been interested in science, and especially astronomy. I remember sitting there, looking at the planetarium demonstration, a student at a Christian school at the time where they taught Lamarkian evolution as representative of the field; where cosmology wasn't really taught at all. I remember wondering why god had created such a titanic waste of space, unless we were meant to go explore the galaxy and beyond, in which case, Jesus certainly wasn't coming back anytime soon.

The awe and wonder is what started me down the road to skepticism.
 
I can save you the pain of reading this idiot's drivel

"I was inspired by the stars in the sky to believe in unbelievable things. People who can't see the stars cannot be inspired to believe the unbelievable"
 
Eh.
Religion was invented by people afraid of the dark.
Take away the fear of the dark, or take away the dark...

I mean, once you understand that lightning works on certain principles, and that no amount of propitiation will influence where it strikes, you stop sacrificing to the Lightning God AND you stop playing golf with metal clubs during thunderstorms...
 
Keith&Co. said:
Eh.
Religion was invented by people afraid of the dark.
Take away the fear of the dark, or take away the dark...

I mean, once you understand that lightning works on certain principles, and that no amount of propitiation will influence where it strikes, you stop sacrificing to the Lightning God AND you stop playing golf with metal clubs during thunderstorms...
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The old myth of metal and lightning.... The metal has nothing to do wether you would be hit by lightning or not: its the geometric shape that matters. Pointy things creates a much stronger electric field and thus higher expectancy of discharge.
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Juma said:
Keith&Co. said:
Eh.
Religion was invented by people afraid of the dark.
Take away the fear of the dark, or take away the dark...

I mean, once you understand that lightning works on certain principles, and that no amount of propitiation will influence where it strikes, you stop sacrificing to the Lightning God AND you stop playing golf with metal clubs during thunderstorms...
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<derail>
The old myth of metal and lightning.... The metal has nothing to do wether you would be hit by lightning or not: its the geometric shape that matters. Pointy things creates a much stronger electric field and thus higher expectancy of discharge.
</derail>
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Not a derail.
You're still able to explain why a golfer gets zapped without an appeal to an intelligent agency which might be persuaded NOT to zap you if you, say, cut off the end of your dick in devotion to him/her/it. Thus the NEED for a religion loses that much more ground in the face of light, metaphoric or otherwise.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Juma said:
<derail>
The old myth of metal and lightning.... The metal has nothing to do wether you would be hit by lightning or not: its the geometric shape that matters. Pointy things creates a much stronger electric field and thus higher expectancy of discharge.
</derail>
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Not a derail.
You're still able to explain why a golfer gets zapped without an appeal to an intelligent agency which might be persuaded NOT to zap you if you, say, cut off the end of your dick in devotion to him/her/it. Thus the NEED for a religion loses that much more ground in the face of light, metaphoric or otherwise.
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You misunderstood..
It was MY post that was the derail...
 
Juma said:
Keith&Co. said:
Not a derail.
You're still able to explain why a golfer gets zapped without an appeal to an intelligent agency which might be persuaded NOT to zap you if you, say, cut off the end of your dick in devotion to him/her/it. Thus the NEED for a religion loses that much more ground in the face of light, metaphoric or otherwise.
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You misunderstood..
It was MY post that was the derail...
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No, i understood that. I just disagreed.
 
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