Just because you’ve “traveled to 17 countries” and “…have done…[your]… own research” doesn’t meant you aren’t “brainwashed”.

We’re ALL indoctrinated/brainwashed, etc etc, to some degree. Our parents do this, our society does this. It’s the way our thoughts are formed based on how we’re taught.

As the old saying goes, “the map is not the territory”. Unfortunately, our brains tend to forget this, and we get caught up in believing our perceptions ARE reality, rather than a representation/interpretation of reality.

I would venture, that if you could ask that neuroscientist which part of the brain forms the “spiritual” imagery, he could point you yo VERY significant work, and say explicitly which formation in the brain is the consistent root of such imagery.

I would recommend you get a degree in neuroscience before you start spouting your own nonsense again. Just because most research isn’t delineated in lay publications (newspapers/magazines) doesn’t mean there’s a lack of data and evidence. it just means most lay people are ignorant of the amount of work going on today, and the vast amount of data collected from many man-years of research.

You, however, do demonstrate a lack of knowledge on the subject, and an ignorance regarding the scientific method and the peer-review system.

Seems Althusius chooses to focus on defending himself more than providing constructive deliberation. That being said, The Golden Rule, as well as MANY other aspects of the “almighty one’s” bible/doctrine is simply a repeat of the egyptian/other much older written and unwritten culture’s religions, the worship of the sun/”son” all the way back to astrology.

If anyone has seen Michael Tsarion’s videos he has a quite lengthy (yet fact-filled and research-able) chapter on the origin of the “modern day” christian religion and explains how it is nearly entirely astrology, yet that is another story I won’t ramble on more about here.

Point being, if you seriously believe the bible you have and read today is the word of god and has never been manipulated or edited by humans (especially before mass-production or reproduction of texts was possible) you are quite gullible, I simply hope the peace of mind it gives you does not afford you to treat others in any manner that you wish to not be treated yourself.

http://www.the-gospel-truth.info/can-we-be-good-without-god/

To say that criminals treat people the way they want to be treated, and they just happen to want to be treated badly, is ignorant at best.

Nicely put. I’ve often argued that the whole of morality and all of the Good Bits of any religion can be distilled down to nothing more than “respect each other”

That man needs a good GODSMACK in my estimation, and I wish I was given the opportunity to tell him so!

Um… yeah. No connection between religion and violence at all.

Right.

I wanted to call in but it was a “captive” audience. I wanted to ask the guy which part of the brain fabricates the kind of nonsense he spews? The audacity of anyone to believe they know what anyone else’s brain is thinking! I’d say that is delusions of grandeur and the ultimate insanity! That man needs a good GODSMACK in my estimation, and I wish I was given the opportunity to tell him so! After all, isn’t “humanism” religious dogma in itself? It is a dictation of what the rest of us are supposed to believe, and I don’t buy it! Don’t say I am “uneducated” or “brainwashed” because I have traveled to 17 countries, including the former soviet union, have lived in many different areas, worked with people from all over the world, and have done my own research.

I just have to wonder if brave Althusius is still around.

Alas, his blog has been long-dormant.