Bertrand Russell Sums Religion Up....

[Deicide]

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing-fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of the unknown. Fear is the parent of cruelty and thereofore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand...a good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

Great Stuff and still so relevant...one hundred years hence...

[Purge_WTF]

  Could you possibly choose a text that's any harder to read next time?

[Deicide]

  Could you possibly choose a text that's any harder to read next time?

Hard to read?! Are you serious?!

[Dos Equis]

Ridiculous.  I doubt the faith of any Christian who regularly posts on this board is grounded on fear.  Just another angry/frustrated/paranoid atheist who can't simply believe in nothing, but has to spend an inordinate amount of time attacking something he/she doesn't believe exists. 

[The Master]

Ridiculous.  I doubt the faith of any Christian who regularly posts on this board is grounded on fear.  Just another angry/frustrated/paranoid atheist who can't simply believe in nothing, but has to spend an inordinate amount of time attacking something he/she doesn't believe exists. 

Bertrand Russell was one of the best mathematicians in all of history..

[Lord Humungous]

Bertrand Russell was one of the best mathematicians in all of history..

Maybe he sould have stuck to math then?

[loco]

Bertrand Russell was one of the best mathematicians in all of history..

Yup, so were Blaise Pascal, a devout Christian, and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, who contributed to medicine and biology and criticised Darwinism.

The Miracles of Darwinism - Interview with Marcel-Paul Schützenberger.
http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od172/schutz172.htm

Besson, Jaques, "La quête de M. P. Schützenberger en Médecine et Biologie," dated March 2001, at URL: http://igm.univ-mlv.fr/~berstel/Mps/ retrieved on 5 November 2006.

Besson, Jaques, Gavaudan, Pierre, & Schützenberger, Marcel-Paul, "Sur l'existence d'une certaine corrélation entre le poids moléculaire des acides aminés et le nombre de triplets intervenant dans leurs codages," C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, No. 268, pp. 1342–1344, 1969.

Schützenberger, Marcel-Parul, "Une application de l'analyse séquentielle," Semaine des Hôpitaux de Paris, Vol. 25 No. 60, pp. 2562–2564, 14 August 1949.

[Dos Equis]

Maybe he sould have stuck to math then?

[chuckle]  Barry Sanders was the greatest running back to ever put the pads on and I wouldn't be turning to him for his insight on atheists either (he's a devout Christian). 

[Deicide]

Yup, so were Blaise Pascal, a devout Christian, and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, who contributed to medicine and biology and criticised Darwinism.

The Miracles of Darwinism - Interview with Marcel-Paul Schützenberger.
http://www.arn.org/docs/odesign/od172/schutz172.htm

Besson, Jaques, "La quête de M. P. Schützenberger en Médecine et Biologie," dated March 2001, at URL: http://igm.univ-mlv.fr/~berstel/Mps/ retrieved on 5 November 2006.

Besson, Jaques, Gavaudan, Pierre, & Schützenberger, Marcel-Paul, "Sur l'existence d'une certaine corrélation entre le poids moléculaire des acides aminés et le nombre de triplets intervenant dans leurs codages," C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, No. 268, pp. 1342–1344, 1969.

Schützenberger, Marcel-Parul, "Une application de l'analyse séquentielle," Semaine des Hôpitaux de Paris, Vol. 25 No. 60, pp. 2562–2564, 14 August 1949.

All irrelevant. The truth of his statement; that people are religious for emotionals reasons rather than rational ones is the main point and very true as well.