Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "" video.
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@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 You're welcome. If you know the difference, your responsibility is to use them correctly.
90wpm? Most commenters on this site struggle to put a coherent, grammatically correct sentence together.
Prayer has been proven in several controlled studies, not to have any positive effect, except in the heads of those who think it does. People who don't engage in such activity, have just as much success, and luck, as those who don't. It's not as though prayer is all going to the same place. Each religion is praying to their own version of a supreme being or beings. So who's doing it right. Or maybe, they're all wrong. Why not just believe in one less religion than they do?
Why do you assume that my rejection of religion was because I was "hurt" at some time. How about that it never occured to me that their was any god to submit to. There was nothing that ever disproved this position either. Indeed, nobody in history has been able to prove that any supreme being exists. Therefore, why waste time worshipping something that at best is invisible, and thus has no effect on your surroundings. Secondly, I was never indoctrinated into religion at any point in my childhood, like many people are. I just made my decision on the lack of evidence around me. The only reason people are a certain religion, anyway, is due to where they were born. If you're born in the US, you will be a Christian, and in India, a Hindu. So what's the point, if you might be backing the wrong horse?
Why do I need to submit to a higher power, to be happy. Especially when there's no evidence for it.
Over three million children die of starvation every year. Children who will never grow and have kids of their own. Why would an all powerful god, just sit and watch, and do nothing to stop this? There are only two conclusions. Either that god is an uncaring monster, who doesn't care about his/her/its creations. Or he/she/it does not exist. Which of those two options, do you subscribe to?
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@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 The third option is a convenient cop-out, by god-botherers to attempt to provide an excuse, as to why evil exists in the World.
I don't buy the explanation, as to why a god would be so apathetic about his/her/its creation.
This is particularly true of the Abrahamic religions, which see humans as special creations, made in the image of that god. In one of them, god supposedly even sent his son, to show how much he/she/it cared for his creation.
The argument that we need religion, otherwise kids will join gangs, doesn't hold weight. Religious indoctrination has its negatives too. For one, it stifles free-thinking, and makes people think in an irrational manner. Subscribing to believes which in no way comport with reality. You can teach children good values, without filling their heads with thousands years old nonsense. The bible condones genocide, slavery and the abuse of women and girls. Luckily, in spite of these immoral teachings, people only pay lip-service to them. And if you reject these parts, why not reject the whole lot?
As you will guess, I also think homeopathy is a fraud. Since when is less, more?
I watched nearly every James Randi (with an "i"), video on the internet. He busted the so-called psychics, prosperity preachers, and other assorted fraudsters. My favourite was when Johnny Carson and him, punked celebrity bender Uri Geller on the Tonight Show. When Geller made the excuse that he "wasn't feeling strong tonight". That should have been the end of his career, but people like him have a habit of keeping their grift going. Although, with the internet, it's easy to see through their lies, if you can be bothered to be sceptical.
As to some higher power being out there. I choose to believe it, when I see it. And if that's when it's too late, then tough.
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