European women

In a religious discussion in Skypeland, a prominent atheist held forth on the inadequacies of the bible the other day. He was asked what the bible meant. He started to explain. In the middle of this, someone said, "Why do European women not shave under their arms?" Someone else said, "In response to why the bible has been altered so many times, hear me out hear me out hear me out hear me out...it is like wearing a seat belt in a car..a seat belt." A girl interjected, "I can speak now...how are you?" Someone else said, "I would encourage you to study what the Catholic church is teaching you and what is in the bible. Like holy water, it is a totally misconception. The Virgin Mary is worshipped by the Catholic Church as a god."

The atheist ridiculed religion and particularly the bible. He then started to praise pseudoscience ideas like the Global Consciousness Project and claimed that it had been proven that human thought can effect random number generators on computers. Interestingly, he ridiculed the flakey ideas of others, and immediately started to promote his own new age flakey ideas.

I had previously suggested that there might be an evolutionary adaptation that confers some survival advantage to people with a capacity for spiritual belief. I was shot down aggresively by this same atheist. However, in the next breath, he quickly revealed that he had the same sort of deep-seated need himself. Interesting...