Atheist vs Believers

[Crown_Prince_of_Irony]

I kind of fell off this thread after the second page (and unfortunately, totally missed chosenbygrace’s spectacular flameout which was mostly at my expense. Damn, I wish I’d have hung around.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that The Hamster King’s post largely sums up my worldview:

@The_Hamster_King

Absolutely! Science lets me see in radio waves and gamma rays, perceive magnetic fields and quantum fluctuations. It gives me deep insights into non-human senses and non-human cognition. It allows me to perform calculations that are beyond the range of my limited ape brain. Theology and spiritualism are far too narrow and parochial to grasp the mysteries that lie beyond us. They are merely an inconvenient quirk of human cognition, an odd evolutionary tic that encourages false positives in our pattern recognition capabilities. Aside from the slight survival advantage they granted in our natural savannah habitat, they largely useless.

While I would posit that religion does indeed have its uses for many adherents (something I’ve said here before), religion is absolutely useless to me personally.

[BigT]

<nevermind. Not going to risk it.>