Religion needs to go away

[Linkon]

The Book of Revelations says there will be 144,000 of the Jews saved on Judgement day.

[Linkon]

Missionaries to Central Asia in parts of the former USSR reported that these were traditional Muslim areas.

Mosques there these days rule by slander. 
Messages there against the Christians follow the line that Christians eat children and drink raw blood.  Muslims meeting the Christians first hand quite astonished that the missionary families have their kids with them and don’t seem to do any of the heinous things that the imams describe.

[Guest]

@Linkon:

Messages there against the Christians follow the line that Christians eat children and drink raw blood.

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And we all know that it is of course the muslims that eat children and drink raw blood, don’t we
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… Christian … missionary families

THAT is asking for trouble… and then probably being surprised or using the it as a cheap argument against muslims (as any missionaric activity is forbidden by the shariah. It is highly insulting to a faithful muslim to “suffer” christian “missionaric” work. Any response would be misinterpreted by the christians as “they did nothing” …except for a massive “unkown”, “unwanted” provocation of the muslim believe).[

[Janus1]

faith is belief without evidence. stupidity is unreasoned thinking. is belief without evidence a form of unreasoned thinking?

[cystic crypt]

@Janus1:

faith is belief without evidence. stupidity is unreasoned thinking. is belief without evidence a form of unreasoned thinking?

. . .
and therefore stupidity?

Love, hope, joy, fear, anger . . . just about any emotion applies TO SOME DEGREE here.

Also i think that it will be interesting those anti-religious types - comparing your outlook on your deathbed vs. those “stupid” religious types.  From what i see, one might be careful with certain assumptions.

[Guest]

@Janus1:

… stupidity is unreasoned thinking.  …

You should look up the latest results of neuro-biologists. It seems like all reasoning we do (for all decisions) happens after the decision has been made (without you “knowing” that it has been made). That would mean, either all thinking is “reasoned, but unconscious”, or all thinking is “unreasoned because unconcious”.