What haven't Americans outgrown religion?
>outgrow religion
>>67525784
Why haven't you, Muhammad?
Because when you outgrow religion you let a bunch of Ahmed's in to shit up your country. At least our spics aren't Godless or heathen retards.
>>67525784
>traitors lead to civil war
>traitors lead
One of the reasons I became areligious is due to the fact most religious leaders are uneducated morons; this sign being an example. The last sentence doesn't make any sense, and has no context.
i miss the 90s
>>67525784
'Murica was based on religious freedom. They won't be getting rid of it any time soon.
>>67526101
The reason Europe is fucking up the shitskin invasion isn't because we outgrew religion, the once fucking up are still christian in a way. Every sane person who criticizes the crisis is areligious.
tl;dr the migrant crisis is happening because of christian cucks.
>>67526964
The commie and capitalist fucks who are promoting mass immigration are not at all religious.
>>67526964
I don't know how it is in Europe but most religious people here in the US tend to be far more right leaning and have a general distrust towards other religions and hell even their own religion if it is a different sect.
It seems like most of the leftists of Europe wouldn't really identify with their religion or place it as an important part of their life.
>Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation — or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt.
>At a sales conference at Random House, preceding the publication of Atlas Shrugged, one of the book salesmen asked me whether I could present the essence of my philosophy while standing on one foot. I did as follows:
1. Metaphysics: Objective Reality
2. Epistemology: Reason
3. Ethics: Self-interest
4. Politics: Capitalism
>If you want this translated into simple language, it would read: 1. “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed” or “Wishing won’t make it so.” 2. “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too.” 3. “Man is an end in himself.” 4. “Give me liberty or give me death.”
because atheism is retarded, and you are retarded
>hurr durr i used the word "abiogenesis" instead of "Book of Genesis", even though the word explains nothing
>hurr durr a big bang of everything that came from nothing, made kittens and feelings and love
yeh, believers in God are the retards aren't they....
>If you held these concepts with total consistency, as the base of your convictions, you would have a full philosophical system to guide the course of your life. But to hold them with total consistency—to understand, to define, to prove and to apply them—requires volumes of thought. Which is why philosophy cannot be discussed while standing on one foot—nor while standing on two feet on both sides of every fence. This last is the predominant philosophical position today, particularly in the field of politics.
>My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
>Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
>Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
>Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
>The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
>>67525784
because most of them are still children
>>67525784
Why haven't British men outgrown religion?
>Ayn Rand much admired and, in a letter she wrote to a Catholic priest in 1965, agreed with the philosophical doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Rand wrote in a book that “Catholicism had once been the most philosophical of all religions. Its long, illustrious philosophical history was illuminated by a giant: Thomas Aquinas. He brought an Aristotelian view of reason (an Aristotelian epistemology) back into European culture, and lighted the way to the Renaissance. For the brief span of the nineteenth century, when his was the dominant influence among Catholic philosophers, the grandeur of his thought almost lifted the Church close to the realm of reason.” Contrary to the claims of some Christian Ayn Rand opponents, Rand’s philosophy can be reconciled with that form of Christianity espoused by Thomas Aquinas, because her fight was not against religion – “I am fighting for reason, not against religion,” but rather against nihilism: "There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or non-existence.” Rand did not hate Christianity per se, but rather the perverse Christianity espoused by Christian nihilists, therefore Christians can embrace her ideas in good faith without contradicting their religion.
>>67528572
>yeh, believers in God are the retards aren't they....
Yes they are.
>>67525784
I don't believe in God but I certainly hope the United States remains Christian. The alternative seems Islamic domination, and I'd prefer being able to exist.
>>67529777
Why not just execute all believers? It's simple.
>>67525784
Ask those of the jewish faith.
>>67529882
Religion, or lack thereof, doesn't seem to have a bearing on how intelligent someone is. It's more of a cultural aspect. The earliest religions were simply political systems via divine mandate, and the absence of the latter will not change the motive for why it came about.
>>67526964
>The reason Europe is fucking up the shitskin invasion isn't because we outgrew religion, the once fucking up are still christian in a way.
The reason Europe is fucking up the invasion is because you're all so deluded as to believe the militant socialist atheists leading you are still "christian in a way."
Literally like saying a sausage is "still alive, in a way."
I thought Arabs were generally religious..?
What's going on here Muhammad?
>>67528283
>>67528572
>>67529069
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>>67529542
>Hey guys look I can maymay arrow too!
>>67525784
>that slippery slope
Why are Christians allowed to get away with direct threats like this?
>>67525784
>be UK
>be protestant
Shit man I almost hope for a britanistan
Reminder that the world is getting more religious, not less.
We have already passed Peak Atheism.
Cyborg Templar WILL liberate The Islamic State of Londonistan in your lifetime
DEUS VULT
>>67526964
haha blame chrisfags while there are no christfags anymore because holland killed it with atheism
>>67525784
>Americans denouncing treachery
>Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
Bram Stoker, Dracula
>I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
>The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
>>67525784
Atheism is for people who want to be zealous about religion without being religious
>A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
>>67531462
Carl Sagan was an atheist, but he was an oddly gentle and accepting one. I never got the feeling he "disliked" Christianity.
I mean I'm sure there's going to be some quote of his in reply to this but I doubt you'll find anything that compares to Dawkins "Religion is a mental illness" or Hitchens "The Bible is a work of scatological pornography"
>The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research
>Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.
Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
>Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.
G.K. Chesterton
The third stage of enlightenment happens when you have become capable of finding the inner being, the meditative quality within, the gap, the inner silence and emptiness, so that it becomes a natural quality.
You can find the gap whenever you want.
This is what tantra callas Mahamudra, the great orgasm, what Buddha calls Nirvana, what Lao Tzu calls Tao and what Jesus calls the kingdom of God.
You have found the door to God.
You have come home.
Swami Dhyan Giten
