Place Your Bets
What is the “faith” of the rank and file believer but some timid wager on the unknown and unknowable?
… a wager on whose infinitely old invisible man in the sky is “the one true God”.
… a wager on whose “holy scriptures” contain the right formula for admission to paradise.
And a most bizarre kind of wager to boot… one that never cashes out.
Like a surreal game of roulette…
… where the wheel goes round and round and round…
… and the ball goes round and round and round…
… day after day after day.
And the ball never drops…
And the wheel never stops spinning.
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Frank J Peter View All →
A uniquely burdened and blessed citizen of the world thinking and acting out loud!
Frank J. Peter 
I forget the exact words, but I once heard a priest say that if there is no god, we have been deeply involved mankind’s greatest charade (or scam as GROG said). Not an accurate quote, but close enough.
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Better than close enough to make the point, Bill. BTW, your comment reminds me of my favorite moment in Religulous…. The interaction between Bill Maher and Father Reginald (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTV-VgrbnZU) is priceless… making me want to laugh out loud and cry out load at the same time. Cheers.
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Funny. But…it’s still cherry picking, right?
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Still cherry-picking indeed! Yuk!
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Like I keep saying, It’s a scam. A con game with religions selling the delusion of resurrection. GROG sorry, my same old tune
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A scam indeed, G man… perhaps the greatest con of all time… and the ball keeps rolling and the wheel keeps on spinning. Yuk.
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The earth is filled, well half full, of deluded people who believe in the literal end of the world. That delusion needs to be dispelled. The delusion of the supernatural, salvation (from what?) and resurrection must be ridiculed for what they are, a mental illness. Speaking of mental illness, now the Chinese government is calling religion a mental illness. I’ll go along with that. GROG
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Thanks for sharing, GROG. Do you think the DSM-X will someday add a category for [delusional] religious belief?
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In an early lecture Dr. Peter Sapolsky called religion a mental illness. It is schizotypalism, a type of schizophrenia. The idea of the supernatural (heaven) is so pervasive and it really should be identified as a construct of the mind. How are you doing in your godless world? GROG
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1) I LOVE Robert Sapolsky! Thanks for sharing that.
2) I did not know the profound joy of freedom and did not feel fully ALIVE until I realized I lived in a godless world!
3) Cheers!
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And that means, moment to moment, live it and love it. Belief, for lack of a better word, I find is too highly “respected”. What, we don’t want to hurt their feelings? If anything they should be ridiculed(at least made fun of) for being taken in by such a scam for so very long! No wonder life is hard for some people, they are trying to lives two lives at once. As you know, once the delusion is gone, you can get on with living your life. “I can see clearly now, the ….” GROG
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