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	<title>Comments on: The psychology of atheism?</title>
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		<title>By: Geoff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Geoff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I listened to this podcast today and quickly came to the same conclusion as you - to argue that the bible is true because it says so in the bible is just wrong.
Also, psychology is a science, therefore you can&#039;t really quote sources that are thousands of years old, you need to quote the latest research.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I listened to this podcast today and quickly came to the same conclusion as you &#8211; to argue that the bible is true because it says so in the bible is just wrong.<br />
Also, psychology is a science, therefore you can&#8217;t really quote sources that are thousands of years old, you need to quote the latest research.</p>
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		<title>By: ylooshi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;atheists are irrational and intellectually inferior.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
 
Members of this &quot;irrational&quot; and &quot;intellectually inferior&quot; club include Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Warren Buffet. Each of these should need no introduction even to the most ignorant among us. But Google them if you&#039;re curious. Other &quot;irrational&quot; and &quot;intellectually inferior&quot; atheists include Jodi Foster, one of the most renowned and prolific actors of our time; Sean Carroll, a theoretical cosmologist; Douglas Adams, author of &lt;i&gt;The Hitchhiker&#039;s Guide to the Galaxy&lt;/i&gt;; Steve Wozniak, the computer engineer who founded Apple along with Steve Jobs; Richard Leakey, one of the most important anthropologists of our time -the discoverer of many fossil species of ancient &lt;i&gt;Homo&lt;/i&gt;; Bruce Lee, martial artist and found of the Jeet Kune Do system; Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize winning physicist; James Watson and Francis Crick, the discoverers of DNA; Katherine Hepburn, winner of 12 Academy Awards. 

In addition, 93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences proclaim to be atheists. Many would argue that all these are smart, rational, and intellectual folks. Perhaps those with their cranial sections firmly planted in a silica stratum would disagree.

&lt;blockquote&gt;Atheism is the disease of the lumpen proletariat, the ignorant, the rebel. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

You seem to be misusing the term &lt;i&gt;lumpenproletariat&lt;/i&gt;. Also, the word is German and not split in the ignorant fashion you&#039;ve applied. The term was invented by Marx and Engles in their &lt;i&gt;The German Ideology&lt;/i&gt; (if memory serves correct) and it refers to the portion of the working class that enjoys the status quo, all the while exploiting the remainder of the working class. They certainly aren&#039;t the &quot;rebel&quot; in the sense you wish to convey. Indeed, if there is a &lt;i&gt;lumpenproletariat&lt;/i&gt; in modern American society, it is likely the swindling religionists who pass collection plates, request federal and local funding for unproven and non-efficacious &quot;faith-based&quot; programs, and cheat society by side-stepping tax law with their &quot;religious&quot; status.

&lt;blockquote&gt;They used to pride themselves on being intellectuals but that was before one-dimensional man caught up with American society. Now most atheists are so illiterate they donâ€™t know what an intellectual is.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&quot;Most atheists?&quot; Please, tell us all how you came to quantify this claim. What measurement did you apply to arrive at this conclusion? Your faulty premises above have been riddled with holes and shredded with facts. 

Thank you for stopping by and posting. Seemingly undereducated trolls are always welcome since it gives an &quot;irrational&quot; and &quot;intellectually inferior&quot; atheist like me something to point and laugh at.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>atheists are irrational and intellectually inferior.</p></blockquote>
<p>Members of this &#8220;irrational&#8221; and &#8220;intellectually inferior&#8221; club include Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Warren Buffet. Each of these should need no introduction even to the most ignorant among us. But Google them if you&#8217;re curious. Other &#8220;irrational&#8221; and &#8220;intellectually inferior&#8221; atheists include Jodi Foster, one of the most renowned and prolific actors of our time; Sean Carroll, a theoretical cosmologist; Douglas Adams, author of <i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy</i>; Steve Wozniak, the computer engineer who founded Apple along with Steve Jobs; Richard Leakey, one of the most important anthropologists of our time -the discoverer of many fossil species of ancient <i>Homo</i>; Bruce Lee, martial artist and found of the Jeet Kune Do system; Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize winning physicist; James Watson and Francis Crick, the discoverers of DNA; Katherine Hepburn, winner of 12 Academy Awards. </p>
<p>In addition, 93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences proclaim to be atheists. Many would argue that all these are smart, rational, and intellectual folks. Perhaps those with their cranial sections firmly planted in a silica stratum would disagree.</p>
<blockquote><p>Atheism is the disease of the lumpen proletariat, the ignorant, the rebel. </p></blockquote>
<p>You seem to be misusing the term <i>lumpenproletariat</i>. Also, the word is German and not split in the ignorant fashion you&#8217;ve applied. The term was invented by Marx and Engles in their <i>The German Ideology</i> (if memory serves correct) and it refers to the portion of the working class that enjoys the status quo, all the while exploiting the remainder of the working class. They certainly aren&#8217;t the &#8220;rebel&#8221; in the sense you wish to convey. Indeed, if there is a <i>lumpenproletariat</i> in modern American society, it is likely the swindling religionists who pass collection plates, request federal and local funding for unproven and non-efficacious &#8220;faith-based&#8221; programs, and cheat society by side-stepping tax law with their &#8220;religious&#8221; status.</p>
<blockquote><p>They used to pride themselves on being intellectuals but that was before one-dimensional man caught up with American society. Now most atheists are so illiterate they donâ€™t know what an intellectual is.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Most atheists?&#8221; Please, tell us all how you came to quantify this claim. What measurement did you apply to arrive at this conclusion? Your faulty premises above have been riddled with holes and shredded with facts. </p>
<p>Thank you for stopping by and posting. Seemingly undereducated trolls are always welcome since it gives an &#8220;irrational&#8221; and &#8220;intellectually inferior&#8221; atheist like me something to point and laugh at.</p>
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		<title>By: Metacrock</title>
		<link>http://breakingspells.net/the-psychology-of-atheism/comment-page-1/#comment-1835</link>
		<dc:creator>Metacrock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>atheists are irrational and intellectually inferior. Atheism is the disease of the lumpen proletariat, the ignorant, the rebel. They used to pride themselves on being intellectuals but that was before one-dimensional man caught up with American society. Now most atheists are so illiterate they don&#039;t know what an intellectual is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>atheists are irrational and intellectually inferior. Atheism is the disease of the lumpen proletariat, the ignorant, the rebel. They used to pride themselves on being intellectuals but that was before one-dimensional man caught up with American society. Now most atheists are so illiterate they don&#8217;t know what an intellectual is.</p>
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		<title>By: Atheism: What It Is And Why It Is &#171; Noreligion Blog</title>
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