Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "How the Internet is Destroying Mormonism" video.

  1. Dan Dennet and some of his atheist associates have been backing the hypothesis that a course in comparative religion, taught at the high school level, would quite painlessly lead to lots less true believers.  Personally I believe it would be more effective to teach it during grade-school then again in a more sophisticated form in high school.  This would allow kids to ridicule the various lies of other religions in the fun yet direct way that only kids have.  Then as they get the influx of hormones and become teens, they can turn this sense of irony and humor on their parents religion, should they be so unlucky as to be stuck with some kind of fundamentalist parents. It is really too bad that humans generally equate a native sophistication and depth of their quite physical limbic system, with what they refer to as "spiritual" and about which, similar to the dynamics of the more recent use of the word "consciousness" anyone can say any kind of nonsense and there is a good chance no one will call them out on their ignorance. Here is a fun fact to confront a true believer in the Bible with.  For all intents and purposes, the current actions of ISIL are near identical to the actions taken by the ancient "Israelites"   I think the man's name was Joshua, and if memory serves, when he moved against his neighbors, the Israelites would slay all the men, sell the women into slavery, and take the virgin girls for brides.  And of course take their land and possessions, but sometimes the madness even extended to killing all the animals. They, like ISIL, said that God told them to do it.
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