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The image in the top left corner is Mary Hynes, host of
Tapestry.
Tapestry
There is a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
radio program called Tapestry to celebrate woo and jeer
at rationality. The guests prefer miraculous over mundane explanations.
For example, they would prefer the explanation god manifests tears on
statues to the one that there was a leaking toilet on the floor above.
(In India a skeptic was arrested for pointing out the leaky toilet and
warning against drinking the tears.)
Why do they do the prefer woo?
- The miraculous is more thrilling.
- They can just make stuff up, and feel they are superior the
world’s greatest scientists.
- They don’t have to deal with the world as it is. They can
construct it as they please.
- To deny delusional experiences clearly caused by mental
imbalance.
- Because they do not realize the power of the mind to
generate a subjective experience
even when it is working perfectly normally.
The CBC is a government organisation. As such, it should honour the
separation of church and state. It should not be broadcasting
propaganda for particular religions or sects.
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Hoovered Christians
Imagine what would happen if, by some miracle, all the Christians were hoovered off
the earth or otherwise eliminated. In the USA, about 75% of
the people would disappear.
- Millions of mortgages would go into default and the banks would foreclose. Real
estate prices would plummet.
- Millions of bank accounts would be abandoned and after a suitable delay, the
banks would confiscate the funds.
- The credit card companies would have to write off at least a trillion dollars in
bad debt.
- With most of the climate-change deniers gone, the world would finally get on with
reducing greenhouse gas emissions and clean energy.
- With most of the religious right gone, the Republican party would become an
insignificant power, at least for a while.
- With the Christians gone who trust Jesus to clean up after environmental damage,
we would start to care for our forests and rivers.
- Church property owned outright would just sit around and rot. At first, it would
not be confiscated for non-payment of taxes since there are no taxes. Eventually
though people would notice these crumbling churches were no longer being used for any
religious purposes and civic governments would tax them, then confiscate them.
- Muslims would become the dominant religious group.
- With the Christians gone, people who interfere with public health on
HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus),
measles, mumps, whooping cough, TB (Terabytes), malaria etc. would be gone too. We might just
eliminate these diseases altogether.
- Gay people would be safe to walk the streets.
- The world’s largest pedophile ring would be gone.
- Government tax revenue would drastically shrink. The government would have to
consolidate schools and abandon most of the military.
- Europe would only be minimally effected. They would take over the rôle the
USA formerly had in the world. China would not be affected that much. South America
and Africa would decimated. Russia would be affected more than Europe, but not as
much as the USA.
~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:67) |
Jehovah is No Different From Any Other God
Christians keep presuming their god is the only god worthy of consideration. I like
to remind them that I do not concede that point and that I consider their god to be no
more likely to exist than any of the other 60,000 candidate gods. So I avoid
saying god and say instead the god
Jehovah.
~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:67) |
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