Comment by Chuck B. on June 14, 2011 at 3:41am

Confirms why I hate Texas.

 

Comment by Chuck B. on June 14, 2011 at 3:42am

http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/dont-mess-with-texas/

Comment by Big River on June 14, 2011 at 3:43am

There is no fight.Let them find what we have found.

Comment by Ken Hughes on June 14, 2011 at 7:58am

Is that "we" as in those of us who Think Atheist or "we" as in the other crowd?  Just wondering Mr. Big River. 

 

Speaking of rivers big or small, Texas rivers are getting smaller all the time from the global climate change that folks in the Perry camp and Perry himself vociferously deny is connected to human activities over the last 200-years when the scientists in the rest of the world have found and demonstrated ample evidence that it is.

 

What was/is Perry's solution?  He called for mass prayer of course, which reinforces his idiocy  and demonstrates his total unfitness to be the governor of Texas or any other state, except for Lower Sloblovia perhaps.

Comment by ladymoonage on June 20, 2011 at 10:57pm

that's texas for ya! just about everyone here is religious whether they practice it or not and also brought up to never question god. 

Comment by ARomeoH on June 21, 2011 at 5:41am

I lived in waco as a kid. Then Dallas. Then Santa Monica. Then Cleveland. Then Cincinnati. Oh and I was born in North Dakota. I have an IQ of 180 on a 160 scale and Im studying neuroscience. Its not as much about geographic location as it is about what we are taught and where. Exposure. I have found that with more intelligence comes a greater need to expand and learn and explore. But those that are content knowing little and just getting by until they die...they do just that. We all believe exactly what we need to believe.

Comment by Don on June 21, 2011 at 7:20am

The geographical attributes of a place may not, in themselves, have a bearing on "what we need to believe," but geography does influence culture in all kinds of ways, and it's the culture that holds sway over a person's world view.  Belief systems are generally imposed on people in childhood, and so religion is most often simply an accident of birth.  People assume the beliefs of their parents and of the subtly oppressive culture that, by chance, they inhabit.  In that sense we believe not what we "need to believe," but what we are taught to believe.  The "need" arises out of the steady pressure to conform, not out of some innate, personal outlook.  We're all atheists at birth.

Comment by Ken Hughes on June 21, 2011 at 9:04am

I was born 2/23/44 in a small North Carolina textile town then named Leaksville, since 1967 part of "Eden" of all things, that was saturated with Baptist culture/language/theology with a strong measure of fundamentalist BS mixed in as well.

 

My mom tried, desperately in fact, to inoculate me with the mental virus of the prevalent religious culture by dragging me to the family church, King's Memorial Baptist, as often as possible.  Her mom went there as did a lot of other family members and relatives.  I resisted as much as possible and when I was old enough and empowered by age to make my own decisions I opted out.  I was a skeptic from earliest memories arguing with cousins about the existence of Santa and all such myths that led me later in life to agnosticism and eventually confirming my atheism.

 

However, you are spot-on about essentially everyone being imbued with the religion of their specific geographic/religion location and it sucks!

Comment by Don on June 21, 2011 at 9:36am

Ken, thanks.  It's important and encouraging to keep in mind that everywhere in the world there are some like you--and like many members on this site, too--who are endowed with a strong and healthy skeptical urge to resist inculcation and to think rationally about how the world works.  What today's atheist movements seek to do, in part, is to give comfort and support to those people who, in decades past, have been too often alone in their resistance to all the cultural pressures to conform.  The Internet helps us.

Comment by Ken Hughes on June 21, 2011 at 12:13pm

The three tools in perverting the prevailing paradigm of implanting the religion virus in the brains of the young is education, more education and then more education.  Texas is the nation's leader in attempts to dumb down the state's education system by altering school textbooks in such a manner as to prevent the education virus from getting into the intellect of students.  I wrote letters to the state and local papers decrying the practice.  One reply to my letter to the local paper was "Science Lies!" and the idiot went on to talk about the dinosaur and human foot prints one may see in Glen Rose, TX.  It's hard to combat such willing self-imbued ignorance in an adult and especially that mentally crippled idiot.

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