Physicist Stephen Hawking has dismissed religion once again as he deemed heaven a "fairy story" aimed at appeasing those afraid of death.
The author of 1988 international best-seller "A Brief History of Time" said in an interview with The Guardian that his views were partly influenced by his battle with motor neuron disease.
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Monday.
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Hawking's stance on religion has hardened since the publishing of his seminal work.
Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his 2010 book, "The Grand Design" he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
IMO, Religion is nothing more than a control system to keep the sheeple on the reservation......Stephen Hawking agrees. Not bad company to have on an idea.
This garbage has been posted before. & actually, the "religion is a control mechanism" arguement originated & was propagated by your controllers, who hate God & morality. You felll for their tripe.But there is still time to seek truth.
Coming from Hawking I wouldn't call it garbage. If you know of another Human who has a better understanding out our world and universe please tell us who he is.
The fact that you disagree with Hawking doesn't make your "faith based" ideas valid vs Hawking's fact based ideas.
(contd from below), rape, steal, lie, etc serves no 'controlling' purpose, but rather benefits all the world.
Actually I don't even know who Hawking is.The notion that religion (moral law) is to "control the masses" is propogated by the very elite tyrants who we oppose & who seek to destroy goodness,& liberty.Encouraging people to love one another & not murder,
Actually I don't even know who Hawking is.The notion that religion (moral law) is to "control the masses" is propogated by the very elite tyrants who we oppose & who seek to destroy goodness,& liberty.Encouraging people to love one another & not murder,
That is true as well. The Psychs who run the manipulation show and cultural destruction operations for the psychotic banksters absolutely hate religion - much as a Vampire shown a cross. Religion teaches us that their are limits and that there is such a thing as good and decent behavior. To the "if it feels good do it" crowd that is an anathema. After all what if pedophelia is what makes them "feel good", but religion teaches us to protect, rear (as opposed to rear end), and nurture children. there is no room for their twisted behavior in that.
It is no secret and a matter of public record that Psychiatrists have the highest suicide rate of any medical specialty. They also have the highest conviction rate for financial fraud, and patient sexual abuse. Says a lot about how effective their quackery is.
The Psychs who run the manipulation show and cultural destruction operations for the psychotic banksters absolutely hate religion - much as a Vampire shown a cross.
Well that's a leap. You could say that satanists hate christians, and yeah, the reverse is true.
However, religion is a drug. It deludes one's mind with things that the REAL mind controllers wish, in order to yank that person around with deep rooted fear if they don't do as they're told to do by those in "authority".
In the not too distant past, people were tortured to death if they did not "believe" properly.
"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas..." G. Brock Chisholm, psychiatrist and co-founder of the World Federation of Mental Health
"I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion." Sigmund Freud
"In short, the nature of the hallucinations of Jesus, as they are described in the orthodox Gospels, permits us to conclude that the founder of the Christian religion was afflicted with religious paranoia." Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Binet-Sangle: La Folie de Jesus (The Madness of Jesus), 1910
"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine." Dr. John Rawlings Rees, "Strategic Planning for Mental Health", June 18, 1940
"It was only through the political work of Hitler that the meaning of racial hygiene has become publicly manifest in Germany, and it is only due to him that our thirty-year-old dream to put racial hygiene into practice has become a reality." Dr. Ernst Rudin, Nazi psychiatrist, explaining how psychiatrists in Germany originated the ideas of genocide which Hitler later executed. Note: Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger published Rudin's article in the U.S.: "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need"
What it comes down to OI is that I ask you, please do not throw bullshit quotes my way. If you wish to discuss, discuss, but man, I can throw quotes back too...
What it comes down to OI is that I ask you, please do not throw bullshit quotes my way. If you wish to discuss, discuss, but man, I can throw quotes back too...
The use of the quotes were not meant to be insulting. I like and respect you too much for that. I just have found that it is much easier to make my point on the pernicious influence of organized psychiatry by quoting them (in answer to your other question I keep a file of them for reference - that I've collected from a variety of websites). I can call them names and insult them till I'm blue in the face but nothing makes the point faster and more effectively than simply repeating what they have said and written themselves. That and I was dead tired and just did not have enough oomph left to do a longer post.
My point really, and you can trace it back through their writings, is that organized psychiatry from Freud on, is very hostile towards religion. You can even find some of the hostility codified in the DSM IV where devout religious beliefs are characterized as mental disease.
The reality is, as I am sure you are aware, that we, the caring people, are facing off against a very evil combine of Banksters and Psychs. Both have their individual aims of subjugation but they are not our friends. You can dig back through their writings and utterances all the way back into the twenties and thirties and this hostility against religion, particularly Christianity, pops up time and time again.
I suspect that one of the reasons that Christianity has been targeted is because of its moral codes and precepts. Under a Christian regime such things as treating individuals and things and using them for whatever foulness moves or titillates these monsters are strictly proscribed.
You can find the hostility against conventional and historical morality tied into and bound up in their rants against it. Mostly you can find it in the older writings from the 30's through the 50's. I suspect that they have become a little more covert but you can follow their actions and see it is still there.
Just to emphasize my point, and not to rouse your hackles, here is a quote from G. Brock Chisholm one of the founders of the World Federation of "Mental Health".
"What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality--the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all psychotherapy." ~ Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, Psychiatrist, Co-Founder World Federation of Mental Health
"What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality--the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all psychotherapy."
~ Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, Psychiatrist, Co-Founder World Federation of Mental Health
I have no doubt that those who founded the field of psychiatry have ulterior motives, and are very foul people with demented minds.