Comments for "Quote of the Day" Talk at VideoSift.com

By kronosposeidon

kronosposeidon (http://kronosposeidon.videosift.com) — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:29:42 -0700

Wentworth is exactly right, but you, however, are completely off base. Figure that one out, atheisifter.

By Tofumar

Tofumar (http://www.videosift.com/member/Tofumar) — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:28:05 -0700

^ You have just blown my tiny, feeble, irreligious mind.

By quantumushroom

quantumushroom (http://www.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom) — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:11:13 -0700

That "pressure" Wentworth describes has always been around. The Founding Fathers were geniuses to divorce religion and government, and when there is an unholy marriage of the two, it's religion that loses the most.

I don't think the religious (im)posers in the West are trying to get government to back their religion because they fear its decay. (If any religion would collapse without a theocracy carrying a sword to back it up, it's Islam).

The funda-mental-cases in politics do it for the same reason the GREENvangelicals force their BS on the public: they seek power and have no other means to get it.

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:17:37 -0700

Religion no longer has the stranglehold on people that it used to (see the Catholic Church and the dark ages) and the coffers are getting empty. This means that for religion to continue to control the masses, it has to go though our policital system and the democratic process. The organized religions have simply lost their power and are desperately clinging on.

If you follow the evolution of religions, they are slowly dwindeling away. It's a large version of the "God in the gaps"-argument. As we close the gaps, god slowly dwindles away with no place to hide. And as power goes out to the people, the centralized religious powers vanishes.