Chetan0304
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If proved of match mixing this will be really a big shame and a black day for the cricketing world!
Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan international careers terminated, others punished
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CaptainOZ
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Hey Chetan, why doesn't your avatar have Evolution in it? It's actually been proven as fact, unlike the tooth fairy and those other myths in that list.
I think you missed the point. The avvie is meant to capture the wide range of religions and beliefs present in India.
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pcfan123
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Well it should have a spot for Atheists/agnostics/rationalists/Darwinist then, wasn't Nehru an atheist?
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pcfan123
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Sure you can, perhaps take out the super minority Christianns :P
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CaptainOZ
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It's called an education. The Earth is not 6000 years old - it's 4.6 billion years old.
Evolution is the slow but selective genetic process of survival of the fittest. Of course we evolved from apes! And the reason we survived the Ice Age is that we discovered fire to keep us warm, and evolved to have the mental capacity to create stone tools to fight off predators and cut meat. Other species died out.
It still amazes me that some people actually think that we walked around with dinosaurs
It's not that I missed the point, it's the inherent danger of the point. What is with this flawed but accepted concept that we must automatically "respect" religion? What's wrong with respecting reason and validated science? Scientists get ridiculed all the time by religious people, yet if we were to say that there is something wrong with the brains of people who believe in a four-armed elephant god, they would throw their arms up in shock and yell "sacrilege!"
I mean seriously, look at the above picture and tell me why people believe in this 'thing' over scientific facts that have proven otherwise. There is just as much chance of this elephant god existing than there is of little leprachauns living at the bottom of my garden.
Chetan's signature might seem harmless to the naive, but what are the other messages it's trying to send? Well, it's trying to say that people of different faiths (hallucinations) can somehow live together, presumably in harmony. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Sure, some people take comfort in religion, especially the poor who have nothing and hope someday to have something, but bubbling underneath the surface is disdian and hatred for people who don't believe in their god(s).
Think about it: one of the core messages in most religious scribblings (written by man) is that refusal to believe in their god will result in burning forever in a lake of fire. So the Christians think that all Islamists will burn forever; likewise the Islamists think the same of the Christians. Not very nice, is it?
Religion does much more harm than good. It's a divisive and dangerous delusion. And yes, even the little old granny going to church on Sunday is part of the problem. Even moderate religion sets the platform for extremism. Hitler was a Christian (a Roman Catholic, in fact), he rejected Atheism, and believed he was doing God's work. A Christian killing an abortion doctor or an Islamist flying planes into a building are the results of hatred borne out of religion.
"My religion is the right one" is what people think. This will come as much-needed truth for some:
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Insomniac
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Start a new thread, I'm intrigued to continue this discussion.It's called an education. The Earth is not 6000 years old - it's 4.6 billion years old.
Evolution is the slow but selective genetic process of survival of the fittest. Of course we evolved from apes! And the reason we survived the Ice Age is that we discovered fire to keep us warm, and evolved to have the mental capacity to create stone tools to fight off predators and cut meat. Other species died out.
It still amazes me that some people actually think that we walked around with dinosaurs
It's not that I missed the point, it's the inherent danger of the point. What is with this flawed but accepted concept that we must automatically "respect" religion? What's wrong with respecting reason and validated science? Scientists get ridiculed all the time by religious people, yet if we were to say that there is something wrong with the brains of people who believe in a four-armed elephant god, they would throw their arms up in shock and yell "sacrilege!"
I mean seriously, look at the above picture and tell me why people believe in this 'thing' over scientific facts that have proven otherwise. There is just as much chance of this elephant god existing than there is of little leprachauns living at the bottom of my garden.
Chetan's signature might seem harmless to the naive, but what are the other messages it's trying to send? Well, it's trying to say that people of different faiths (hallucinations) can somehow live together, presumably in harmony. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Sure, some people take comfort in religion, especially the poor who have nothing and hope someday to have something, but bubbling underneath the surface is disdian and hatred for people who don't believe in their god(s).
Think about it: one of the core messages in most religious scribblings (written by man) is that refusal to believe in their god will result in burning forever in a lake of fire. So the Christians think that all Islamists will burn forever; likewise the Islamists think the same of the Christians. Not very nice, is it?
Religion does much more harm than good. It's a divisive and dangerous delusion. And yes, even the little old granny going to church on Sunday is part of the problem. Even moderate religion sets the platform for extremism. Hitler was a Christian (a Roman Catholic, in fact), he rejected Atheism, and believed he was doing God's work. A Christian killing an abortion doctor or an Islamist flying planes into a building are the results of hatred borne out of religion.
"My religion is the right one" is what people think. This will come as much-needed truth for some:
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