Agricoltura, Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren
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http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution.
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Daniel . . Your proposal is a most democratic suggestion to solve the educational problem of religious hipocracy.
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As a philosopher Daniel Dennett even looks the part :)
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Why shouldn't a alien race recognize religion ?
They must have undergone some kind of evolution. So they had to have population control..
And religion is the perfect tool for a developing society .
So if they would see big gatherings of one of the same type of creature. And they would want to know what's happening there than religion would be high on the list..
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Hershel from The Walking Dead
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Religious people are opposed to the teaching of religions other than their own in schools because it'll just show how grossly incorrect all of them are.
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That was brilliant.
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God loves to kill babies and pregnant women
Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
-Hosea 9:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
-Hosea 13:16
Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
-Numbers 31:15-17
They completely destroyed everything in it – babies, men, women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything.
-Joshua 6:20-21
This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”
-Judges 21:10-24
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children.
-Isaiah 13:15-18
Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
-Psalms 137:9
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Rick Warren would be a lot more credible if he simply smeared his face with his own feces.
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...and so it came to pass, that a happenstance prophet arose from the mechanical soup. His name is Dennett. Praised be the happenstance.
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Don't confuse religion with the truth that only your Maker can cover for you Himself and remake you again from the inside out by the power of His true word. No one else can.
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Could you imagine TED letting Dan Dennett do this talk
if he was targeting Islam, instead of christianity?
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then tell us what is so clever about second law? this guy is an idiot who talks about evolution yet says nothing. omg. this guy needs to go sleep forever. the guy can barely read what he puts on the screen. wow. how do such idiots gain a following? this guy is new age mouth speaking nothing
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But that's not a 0 in the word, 'good'. 'Good without god is o' just doesn't make sense. Not that it's surprising. Most religious claims don't make sense.
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These are already taught. We need to teach basic metaphysical and epistemological philosophy in 3rd grade. Give them a basis for everything we expect them to KNOW.
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Funny that Dennett doesn't say anything about the motivation for atheist morality here other than "we want" and "I wish". I'm a Nietzschean, by the way, so don't mistake this for a religious criticism. I just want to confront people with the fact that the only true source of morality is human will. Allow me to translate from an essay I wrote a year ago:
"[Democracy exists] owing to the fact that the people who want it to exist together are more powerful than the people who do not want that. These, however, are people with relatively weak wills: hence they must be with a great majority. That their individual wills are weak may be appreciated from the fact that most of them at least cannot acknowledge the aforesaid; they have to believe that their values are universal, that they are not driven by will to power but by moral sense." (Source: "A Tutorial in Platonic Political Philosophy". Full translation forthcoming.)
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5:41 "Teach them whatever creed you want them to learn, but also let them know about other religions".
Who wouldn't agree to this? How can you even keep children from "learning about other religions".
I think that this proposal won't make any difference. And if you want to practice a religion instead of only learning about it, you can't go through each religion and "try it out", because you have to believe in it, study it and be devoted too.
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You could've done it by adding just one more sentence right after, u kow the bridge between the first description of the cow and all of the following...
Oh only bc I like the word Vegan
Oh and I've heard of enemies of religion; but aren't those your best friends though, care to check?
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He looks a little like David Letterman's older brother both of them were smart but in different ways
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it's his sly way of pushing his Atheistic views. I'm not religious but I know there is a conscious God who is aware of us and wants what is best for us all.
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sheeps aren't smart-dan dennet
http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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They must have undergone some kind of evolution. So they had to have population control..
And religion is the perfect tool for a developing society .
So if they would see big gatherings of one of the same type of creature. And they would want to know what's happening there than religion would be high on the list..
Yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
-Hosea 9:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
-Hosea 13:16
Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
-Numbers 31:15-17
They completely destroyed everything in it – babies, men, women, young and old, cattle, sheep, donkeys – everything.
-Joshua 6:20-21
This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”
-Judges 21:10-24
Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children.
-Isaiah 13:15-18
Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
-Psalms 137:9
if he was targeting Islam, instead of christianity?
"[Democracy exists] owing to the fact that the people who want it to exist together are more powerful than the people who do not want that. These, however, are people with relatively weak wills: hence they must be with a great majority. That their individual wills are weak may be appreciated from the fact that most of them at least cannot acknowledge the aforesaid; they have to believe that their values are universal, that they are not driven by will to power but by moral sense." (Source: "A Tutorial in Platonic Political Philosophy". Full translation forthcoming.)
Who wouldn't agree to this? How can you even keep children from "learning about other religions".
I think that this proposal won't make any difference. And if you want to practice a religion instead of only learning about it, you can't go through each religion and "try it out", because you have to believe in it, study it and be devoted too.
Oh only bc I like the word Vegan
Oh and I've heard of enemies of religion; but aren't those your best friends though, care to check?