Dan Dennett: Responding to Pastor Rick Warren
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Published 2007-01-16
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All Comments (21)
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No pictures of a young Dan Dennett on Google. This confirms my assumptions: This man must have been born old, wise, and bearded.
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The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.- Richard Francis Burton
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Truth does not fear inquiry, only falsehood does.
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"Democracy depends on informed consent" - now we know why things are so broken
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Teaching various religion history is what we do in all Swedish schools like the rest of the Scandinavian countries do. That’s one of the reasons why we are the most secular and non-religious countries in the world.
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When TED still had balls.
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"Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool." Mark Twain
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As a human that escaped a cult, I find this something I can not stop thinking about.
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Wow, I had no idea how secular Santa was.
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"Surrendered people obey God's word, even if it doesn't make sense." -Pastor Rick Warren That, ladies and gentlemen, is why people fly planes into buildings.
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Great idea, just heard a fitting quote by Matt Dillahunty " give a child one religion and you will indoctrinate them. Give a child all religions and you will inoculate them " this will always stick with me, I think we need to learn more about all religions and culture. Knowledge is power and ignorance is no excuse
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If religionists were actually confident that their belief system is true, they wouldn't demand special education, because their belief system would be appealing to a critical thinking adult who has never heard of it before. Every religion actually has those converts.
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Children are going to grow up in a world where most people have a different religion. It makes sense they will need to understand how they tick.
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I love you Daniel Dennett. You see potential in humanity, which is one reason why you give these talks. Thank you man.
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I found this very intelligent and civilised. Personally, it matched my own thoughts. I also like the gentlemanly way Dan expressed his differences from others. No nastiness, no brutal language, no dogmatism. Thank you Dan Dennett.
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Why do religious people need all the answers now. Throughout history they have always had the “right answers” but simply we all know that is not true
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Looks like Socrates finally started writing things down.
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Never heard of DD until today. Great philosopher. I hope he is still alive and kicking and trying to make sense out of the world.
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The Earth was irrigated from the ground-up? A 600 year old man spent a hundred and twenty years building a boat? And people wonder why religion is dying.
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I received that kind of 'religious education' in a public school in Denmark over forty years ago. It liberated me. Brilliant BTW Mr. Denett
