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Atheists & Agnostics

Curmudgeoness

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3. Well, hell.

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 09:19 PM

Feb 2016

That does look like a brain....and I even had to go to a photo of the painting. I don't know if it is just that someone had an ink-blot moment, or if Michelangelo was really making a statement.

I find it hard to believe that he was making a statement, since I had heard that he was religious and took that painting very seriously.

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Religion spares us from existential angst, research shows. Humans want it. [View all] lindysalsagal Feb 2016 OP

I didn't need a study to tell me that. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #1

Cool! I never heard of that before! lindysalsagal Feb 2016 #2

Well, hell. Curmudgeoness Feb 2016 #3

I suspect everybody had to be "religious" back then, didn't have much choice. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #5

Thanks for the post SCantiGOP Feb 2016 #4

Yeppers. We created the big guy in the sky lindysalsagal Feb 2016 #7

Marking this to read in couple days when I have more time. progressoid Feb 2016 #6

religion is a drug olddots Feb 2016 #8

Chiefly, it allows us to shirk responsibility for the planet and the poor. lindysalsagal Feb 2016 #9

the Pope feeds into that RussBLib Feb 2016 #10

Religion is the result of natural selection, or presursor to natural selection... Freelancer Feb 2016 #11