Dude, have some respect here! .... "I bring science to these threads." Can't you stand a little faith and some science
I didn't hear God, but maybe I missed it: The one key word that Trump left out of his speech Donald Trump's acceptance speech mentioned pretty much every campaign issue but one: banks. No mention of efforts to cut financial regulation. Nothing about the Republican Party platform's new aim to break up the big banks. And not a word about Hillary Clinton's long-standing ties to Wall Street kingpins and the tens of millions she's accepted in donations from them. It's not like the GOP nominee was going for brevity... http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/22/banks-the-one-key-word-that-trump-left-out-of-his-speech.html
Another, absolutely classic example, of how religion warps peoples minds, and why people like me object so vehemently to keeping peoples' spiritual life out of the public venue. WTF does it matter to you and I, as a voter, how Bernie Sanders expresses his spirituality? Even in principle? Fucking bitch. People like this have invaded the US government like maggots over rotting beef. "...The email says "ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist."..." http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/24/top-dnc-official-apologizes-for-insensitive-email-after-leak.html
One of the better anti religion rants I've heard. Can easily replace the word religion with government.
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe Kindle Edition by Roger Penrose Hardcover $19.961 New from $19.96 What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas—string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. Arguing that string theory has veered away from physical reality by positing six extra hidden dimensions, Penrose cautions that the fashionable nature of a theory can cloud our judgment of its plausibility. In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Turning to cosmology, he argues that most of the current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe cannot be true, but that an even wilder reality may lie behind them. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to "conformal cyclic cosmology," an idea so fantastic that it could be called "conformal crazy cosmology." The result is an important critique of some of the most significant developments in physics today from one of its most eminent figures.