SkyEyes
9/20/2010 11:51:00 PM
On Sep 20, 4:36 pm, The Chief Instigator <patr...@io.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:04:06 +1000, Seon <s...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > "The Chief Instigator" <patr...@io.com> wrote in message
> >news:slrni9dbvm.7u7.patrick@fnord.io.com...
> >> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:24:44 +1000, Seon <s...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >>> Hell no I'm not ready for any made up cult.
>
> >> Neither am I, all the way back to the Romans, if not earlier. I don't
> >> need invisible sky pixies, and haven't had any use for them in 45-odd
> >> years.
>
> > Lucky you, well I realize now all religion is made up.
>
> Theism is one of the world's oldest scams - four millennia, if not longer.
Theism qua theism is much older. To our distant, newly human
ancestors who didn't understand *anything* about how the universe
worked, superstition was about the only way they had to cope.
What walksalone likes to call "the revealed gods of the desert" date
back approximately 4,000 years, give or take.
Brenda Nelson, A.A.#34
BAAWA Knight
EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding
skyeyes nine at cox dot net