Him , Dawkins , Bill Hicks and George Carlin have it nailed , some of Ricky gervais stuff on religion and the Bible is very sharp
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I always find it ironic that some people who have survived a catastrophic event thank 'God' without bearing in mind that the same deity must have therefore decided that those who perished in the same event were not worthy of sparing.
This is a great book, it was sent to me to help cure me of all those silly conspiracy theories but it actually had the opposite effect, imo Sagan was very awake and it was pretty obvious to me that he could see a future for this planet that he didn't like..
Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
http://www.metaphysicspirit.com/book...ed%20World.pdf
If you don't have time to read the whole thing there are some greats quotes from it..
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quote...he-dark?page=2
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
I think the answer is in the above mentioned book. You can make people believe absolutely anything if you know how. It worked for around 2,000 years regarding religion, but I'm guessing that with the advent TV, radio & media, religion was allowed or even encouraged to die, as it had already served it's purpose. There is also the socialist/communist subversive element which included the destruction of religion as a core doctrine, but by this time the Tavistock Institute and others like Edward Bernays had already worked out how to replace it.
Once you know the rules of the game the role of slogans, repeat messaging, news by ommision, nudge units, propaganda, misinformation/disinformation, conformation bias, bogeymen, etc, becomes very clear. We are like putty in the hand for those who have agendas and big ideas to implement :biggrin:
Another potentially interesting thread descends into the same old stuff by the same 2 posters.
While we do not really have Religious threads as they always end up the same way, this one appears to have run without incident :thumbup:
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