tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post7757353194025021424..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Religion as a DelusionAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-54805258035929900852008-10-01T02:33:00.000-06:002008-10-01T02:33:00.000-06:00I completely agree with you that people's ideologi...I completely agree with you that people's ideologies (i.e. religion) are mostly formed by their upbringing and what they have been brought to believe. But as human beings, we are constantly changing and evolving and everyone experience shapes us.Are the first mentalities that we are influenced by during our upbringing and young years the most prominent? When we get older, and our experiences are being seen by our 'filter', our belief system, when is our belief system most vulnerable to accepting a different filter, or atleast altering our filter? <BR/><BR/>I think the best way to promote an individualistic future is diversity. I'm 16, my mother is Buddhist and my father is Christian. I've gone to a Christian school most of my life. But the fact that I've had some diversity in regards to religion growing up, has allowed me to make my own decisions. (Apart from the fact my mother pushes Buddhism in my face far too often and my school is oh God forbid, brainwashingly Catholic). I think the most effective thing a parent can do, (although they will be reluctant to do so as each have faith in their own ideas), is not to bestow their children with any ideologies.<BR/><BR/>Going back to talking about ideologies and how they are mostly developed by upbringing. On a broader level, it's interesting to see how society's ideals have been accustomed. It has always bewildered me, for example, the issue of scientology and those of other faiths.I go to a catholic school, and criticism of the nonsensicality of scientology has been again and again repeated. The irony is, they both share the same faith and the same substantiation and logic (or lack of) as the other. The only difference is habit and acceptance and what society has been lead to believe and understand. Christianity is more widespread and more accepted, so scientology is ridiculed.Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966114837833972718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-20151444712997463122008-09-27T07:06:00.000-06:002008-09-27T07:06:00.000-06:00The body of this article assumes that 5% of the wo...The body of this article assumes that 5% of the world's population is atheist, whereas it seems the more accurate number is about 15%. Regional differences are important as well; in Canada, 24% describe themselves as atheist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-65313470532238094512008-09-24T22:43:00.000-06:002008-09-24T22:43:00.000-06:00rubenhMy thoughts are that Nietzche was wrong. The...<B>rubenh</B><BR/><BR/>My thoughts are that Nietzche was wrong. There is not and has never been a god; either dead or alive.<BR/><BR/>The phrase may be taken as metaphore, but I am not a Nietzche scholar and an ill equipped to determine what hidden meaning (if not the surface meaning) Nietzche may have had. So I could not offer an informed opinion on that matter.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-60222340832861592182008-09-23T13:16:00.000-06:002008-09-23T13:16:00.000-06:00I want to hear your thoughts on Friedrich Nietzsch...I want to hear your thoughts on Friedrich Nietzsche's quote "God is dead"...The Social Reformerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991202448774383259noreply@blogger.com