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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Consider this: Who do you want to lead us?
(say to have Executive powers incl. command of nuclear weapons, and power to wage war)
Requirements to be POTUS: Native of USA, 14 years in residence and 35+ years old. Elected by minority of population.
Requirements to be Pope: Technically none; must be Catholic upon assuming office. Selected by a group of Cardinals of the church.
Requirements for PhD (US): about 7 years of study, a 400+ page dissertation that "contributes to human knowledge"; that then must be examined by experts and defended by the candidate to the experts satisfaction.
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Who is calling for a theocracy? All I am saying is that religion was unfairly blamed as the root of humanity's problems. Once again, it isn't the root of the problem. Humanity is the root of humanity's problem.
In regard to Sammi's question of a world without religion, it becomes a personal matter. With religion you have man and god, who drives man to transcend his nature. Without religion you only have man with his cruelity, selfishness and murderous nature; a nature that he celebrates. We need to look no further than this forum. Look at the discussion of a possible war with Iran. Man takes tremendous pride in his machines, particularly his killing machines. And it is not only you all, I do it too. It is all that man is, and it is all that man seperated from god can be. For me, that is far too bleak a world to live in. In my eyes it is a comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness and hope in the world to come.
Science offers me many things; things that I enjoy and are an intergal part to my daily life. Science is of value to me and value to man, but it does not offer me that.