Some of those religions are predicated upon a hoped-for future die-off. (Reply #14)

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Tue Feb 24, 2015, 01:29 PM

14. Some of those religions are predicated upon a hoped-for future die-off.

It's fucking disgusting, yet it's part and parcel of the largest single religious bloc in the United States. (Evangelicals)

http://pressreleases.religionnews.com/2013/09/11/shock-poll-startling-numbers-of-americans-believe-world-now-in-the-end-times/

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43 replies	Author	Time	Post
~Neil DeGrasse Tyson Shows Science And Religion Can Co-Exist In ‘Cosmos’~ [View all]	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	OP
I am a true believer...	chillfactor	Feb 2015	#1
Because religion purports to reveal truths about the universe that aren't true.	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#2
Which raises an interesting question.	bvf	Feb 2015	#4
We are currently facing several existential crisis, and the Bullshit Factory, which includes	Warren Stupidity	Feb 2015	#10
Some of those religions are predicated upon a hoped-for future die-off.	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#14
Wrong. Science doesn't deal in truths	demwing	Feb 2015	#42
Hardly.	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#43
Absolutely and most people do not have difficulty with that at all.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#8
Yes, and our founding fathers showed that slavery could co-exist	skepticscott	Feb 2015	#3
You didn't read it, did you? Here, I'll grab my highlighter.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#6
Disingenuous as fuck.	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#16
73% of Catholics said "No", we aren't in the end times. Not bad!	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#36
Yeah, but they're outnumbered.	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#37
Yup! Hey, have you ever seen this: World Religions Tree? Giant graphic.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#38
Yawn. Yes, I know what point you THOUGHT you were making	skepticscott	Feb 2015	#35
Good article worth the re-read.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#5
When someone finds the middle ground between two camps, it pisses off the extremists...	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#7
Isn't that the truth.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#9
The marine mammals are so moving.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#11
The whales are all down here, but they should be passing through your region in a couple of months.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#13
They contradict each other...	MellowDem	Feb 2015	#12
I see all the place where there's concordance.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#17
You lost me	edhopper	Feb 2015	#15
To me, they aren't legitimate if they're stuck in their narrow POV. Good grief.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2015	#18
"Not all religions are evil Christianity, and not all Science is right." This is a nonsensical...	Humanist_Activist	Feb 2015	#19
I'll stick with my first post	edhopper	Feb 2015	#21
Science is a process, a technique for determining physical reality..	Fumesucker	Feb 2015	#22
Not true at all.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#23
Phenomenons are things that are happening in physical reality hence they are part of it	Fumesucker	Feb 2015	#24
Everything that we don't understand now we call supernatural.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#25
Gravity is supernatural?	Fumesucker	Feb 2015	#26
Of course you didn't know that, because it's not true.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#27
I've been into astronomy since I was about seven or eight	Fumesucker	Feb 2015	#28
Wow! That is so cool.	cbayer	Feb 2015	#30
Lots of trees here where I am and some light pollution	Fumesucker	Feb 2015	#31
Our view is completely unobstructed and we often have a complete	cbayer	Feb 2015	#34
And yet you just said	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#33
Simply not true.	trotsky	Feb 2015	#29
No we fucking don't.	AtheistCrusader	Feb 2015	#32
No we don't, that's a stupid assertion, what we don't understand now we call unknown.	Humanist_Activist	Feb 2015	#39
Both series(both Carl Sagan's and Neil Degrasse Tyson's, and their hosts and producers...	Humanist_Activist	Feb 2015	#20
Yes, but there are some here who are so gaga over NDT	skepticscott	Feb 2015	#40
The contrast between Dawkins and Tyson is this, their specialties...	Humanist_Activist	Feb 2015	#41

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