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Comment by Mutt13 on April 3, 2011 at 12:00am

Comment by Joseph P on April 2, 2011 at 11:11pm

Forget the normal part of our brain function.  What about the schizophrenics?  They don't just have the little voices nagging them in the back of their mind.  They have full on hallucinations, sometimes, including ... burning bushes which are not consumed by the flame ... angels ...

Comment by Alice on April 2, 2011 at 10:23pm

Curious – I wonder about a response that doesn’t express hate or anger, but does serve to express the non reality of their statement.

 

Response: “Well that’s if you’re talking about God in the sense of the bicameral mind – pre our modern understanding of the voices in our head being actually a normal part of our human brain function!”

Comment by Phister Gagghol on April 2, 2011 at 8:56pm

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." - Lenny Bruce

Comment by Riomarcos on April 2, 2011 at 6:29pm

Nah, religious people are insane, clinically. Delusion is the fixed false belief that is resistant to actual fact. Psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by delusions or hallucinations that indicate impaired contact with reality. That describes religious folks.

 

On the other hand, I just read a story about the Amazon tribe called the Pirahã (or Hi'aiti'ihi as they call themselves) that until not long ago lived in total isolation from the 'modern' world, and they're atheists. It doesn't take any training in reason to not believe in religion, it just takes not being either crazy or not being intellectually dishonest.

Comment by UUMom on April 2, 2011 at 12:32pm

I do not think of religious people as "insane" - they are working off their feeling brain which is primal and even intelligent & productive people do this. Using reason is something that's learned and that many people have to work at very hard to use it at all, especially when they're not born into a family that uses reason (probably the majority).

I don't know how a business person could be in a place to never deal with this - the general public is not that intelligent. You would have to isolate yourself to a select clientele. That's kind of segregationist. Are you sure that's how you'd like to be? Or could you take the higher road and deal with it by thinking, "those poor ignorant people" and letting go of the anxiety it causes you?

Comment by Rudy V Kiist on April 2, 2011 at 11:17am

That's when you say, "Hold on...God just spoke to me and said I must give you the apartment on the top floor and to double the application fee."

Comment by Joseph P on April 2, 2011 at 10:53am

Honestly, teaching them to accept credit for their own accomplishments would probably do it.  When people start to see things in a more cause/effect relationship, between people and not magical interferences, they'll see how freaking useless their god is.

Comment by Riomarcos on April 2, 2011 at 10:19am

Hi Samantha, did you tell them you weren't sent by god and that you are an atheist? When xtians and other loonies see that atheists are good without god then they might see that their religion is irrelevant crackpot lunacy.

Comment by Samantha Madison on April 2, 2011 at 10:09am

I am a leasing agent for an apartment complex and I of course interact with a mixture of people within the day. I showed these two women an apartment yesterday and they were looking for one for their sister who just had a stroke. Im just a kind and caring person so of course I helped them out, I found an apartment on the first floor (because she has trouble walking) and said I would waive their application fee. Then as they were leaving they said how professional and helpful I was and that I was "sent to them from god" "god bless me and have a blessed day".....Its really awful that we have to deal with so many fucking insane people in this world. I dont want god in my life so dont say that kind of bullshit to me. I should just get ATHEIST tatted on my head in big red letters so people would just fuck off. I regret being nice to these women because I worked extra hard for them to make it easier for their ill sister and all the credit goes to who else... GOD-FML!

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