Another great link from Triggur

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I think he must be as fed up with the pious asshats as I am.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study.ap/index.html

Everything about this article amuses me except the last line, which just makes me sad. The religious are so f***ing pathetic. If I were to invent a time machine, take them back in time and prove that the world was more than 6000 years old, and slap the shit out of Paul and Augustine myself in person, they'd still cling desparately to their stupid beliefs. :/

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[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I liked this story:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/31/dodgeball.assault.ap/index.html

Yeah! These are the Christians I remember from growing up. "Yeah, turn the other cheek, you little bastard!"

[paka.livejournal.com]

Religion can be magical thinking, so that makes sense to me.

Heart patient prays for recovery, believes a higher power will guide him through, boom, his body produces the needed endorphins or whatever, it helps him recover. Same heart patient hears that other people are praying for his recovery, immediately he thinks, holy crap! Is it really that bad? and all sorts of random stress junk gets pumped out into his bloodstream to make it worse.

Now that Would be a Modest Proposal

[acertaindoebear.livejournal.com]

*chucklechuff*

Well, being religious and believing in Creationism are horses of different colours -:) I don't know what the 'answer' is for the USA, but better science education I think would be a good start.

Though I'd like to hear you slap Paul. It'd be interesting to see what would have happened to the current iteration of Christianity then -:)

What I enjoyed about the study is that it seemed to be good science. And performed by members of the cloth so to speak.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

Problems occur when Science and Religion try to do the other's job. A screwdriver doesn't make a very good hammer -:)

Tell me what you think about Stephen Jay Gould's Rock of Ages. It's a short little book of his about a big non-issue in the world: Religion vs. Science.