What Is the Best Misconception mankind has made?

[Ludio]

I feel for you Nohimn, I had the luck of growing up around lots of other atheists and both of my parents are ex-catholics. In a recent poll in the states it was found that atheists were more feared/hated than communists. I know that most people dont care about communism any more, but still that is saying a lot about the general public. The funny thing about religious toleration I have found is that in people's hearts it is only for other religions. For example christians can accept it if you are muslim, jewish or hindi, but not believing in god at all is a tough concept for some people.

[Sputty]

Yep, that's why Canada rocks! Atheism rules. If it doesn't I'm sieging Ottawa with my trebuchets!

[chaos1428]

Well, I do beleive in god, just not as a typical christian would. I don't believe he has as much of an effect on us as alot of people think. I believe that most of everything in the bible is faked, or greatly exagerated. My opinion is that there has to be something, something beyond this life. Some reason why there is life. I do honestly believe that god doesn not give a shit. And from what you say, misled, I do also believe that we have to help ourselves. But I think we are too far gone as a species, to help ourselves. Something beyond our control, something we cannot do by ourselves, is the only thing that will save us. Something has to unite mankind, in order for us to stop killing eachother. It could be religious, it could be terrestrial, it could be extra-terrestrial, I don't know. But something needs to happen, and happen soon, before we wipe ourselves out.

[Sputty]

I believe we exist to do the same thing as everything else. Make sure our genes survive. Also, I think all of the bible is fake. Not most, all. Although you can think about religion the way you do, I disagree with it but meh...Why should it matter to me?

[Nohimn]

okay, here are the links for the world is flat crap:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm

[Tobias]

sience we are talking about religion here is my few:

Think of the bacteria in your nose, covering your snot and the such, when you sneeze you snuff out the life of millions of bacteria, but het, its just bacteria, whats a few million dead?



Now think of this, there is more then one universe, and in each of the possiably billions or more universes there are billions to trillions of star systems, many of them have planetary bodys orbiting them, and life can not only egsist on worlds like ours, so, it is likely that there is life, indeed lots of it, out there other then our own, then why would a All powerful God give half a shit about a bunch of advanced apes on some little planet out in some galaxy.


Think of the bacteria in Gods nose as universes, and the quarks in the protons in the atoms that make up one of those bacteria as you. As much as you care for the quark in that bacteria, that is how much God would care about the Human race.

[chaos1428]

Hench my original thought. God just doesn't give a shit.

[Nohimn]

THAT was completely flame worthy.... careful....

[Revolution]

It doesent Look Flat to Me......?

[BLuE_ZeRO]

maybe to the untrained eye but it clearly is a fake to throw us off.

[Nohimn]

Some years ago, NASA released the first deep-space photographs of the beautiful cloud-swirled blue-green agate we call Earth. A reporter showed one of them to the late Samuel Shenton, then president of International Flat Earth Research Society. Shenton studied it for a moment and said, �It's easy to see how such a picture could fool the untrained eye.�

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Damn you discovered my secret identity /me dissapears

[mistled]

Originally posted by Nohimn
okay, here are the links for the world is flat crap:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/febible.htm

Sorry man, but this guy is a nutcase. He in no way holds any of the beliefs of any Christian I've ever met (heck, I've never met anyone at all with these beliefs that I know of).

He also takes scripture entirely out of context (but when you're trying to prove that the Earth is flat, you kind of have to). The verses cited are a comparison between a single person's ability to move the entire earth by force and anything's ability to move God by force. In both cases, it is impossible, as both are immovable by outside force. Both can move, but neither can be moved.

[Sputty]

The earth CAN be moved as it is a large mass. Although, we don't have the technology to do it really, even though with damming of water that has thrown off the axis a little so technically we have.

[Revolution]

Well I guess it is flat because technically if you say pointed due West(and the oceans/mountians etc didnt effect you) you would walk for ever. So thats kinda flat right? You can keep going for infinity(Till the Sun super novas or what have you) round and round, but it always seems flat, for us and our size on the BALL. Sphere. Globe. Round Thing.