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I describe myself as a materialist, a secular humanist and an strong atheist. I despise the theology of Christianity (not Christians) because it teaches that humans are worthless without the "saving grace" of a God. Christianity expects modern man to accept that human sacrifice and the blood of Jesus somehow washes away mortal sins or crimes. Thankfully, 90% of Christians don't really understand their religion they just pay lip service to something that they were taught as children.
I do find Christian "thinkers" and "scholars" the vilest form of life on the planet, and this includes some regulars who spew their "pretzel" logic into Yahoo chat. These intellectual parasites can quote a myriad of famous Christian theologians and philosophers to support their fetish Bible.
Instead of retreating into the shadows and admitting that their beliefs are just a matter of faith they demand to be permitted a place at the "secular table" pretending to use logic or the scientific method, for which some really believe they are sincere. The former I only despise; the latter I pity.
Here are some of my favorite links:
Amazon.com ....Dennett argues against the myth of the Cartesian
theater--the idea that consciousness can be precisely located in space or in
time. To replace the Cartesian theater, he introduces his own multiple drafts
model of consciousness, in which the mind is a bubbling congeries of
unsupervised parallel processing. Finally, Dennett tackles the conventional
philosophical questions about consciousness, taking issue not only with the
traditional answers but also with the traditional methodology by which they were
reached.Consciousness Explained