How do you gauge the "depth" of a truth? It does on some aspects of the world. You don't get much useful information about space travel from Jules Ver...
There is no way to know; no way to see that far down any road - assuming the road even continues beyond the next bend. We don't plan progress in any f...
Because it has nothing more important on its agenda. Think about this: You are the most significant, the most attention-worthy individual in the entir...
That's a fairly small snapshot of a fairly large world. One little 'developing' nation as all "society"; one instance of ritual sacrifice to a vengefu...
Sure. They signed up for the tax cuts, but stayed for the invasions. Exactly like religion. They converted for the promise of eternal life, but stayed...
There wasn't any "we" involved. A couple of dozen well educated, privileged men decided the government they set up needed a framework that would work ...
No... just to support their religious leaders' right to do those things. Much like the political extremists: most of us don't actually do it; all we d...
Why waste it on those who have lived in a religious environment and rejected it? Very few people have been complete strangers to religious ideas and n...
It's not that we don't get the concept so much as that we disagree on the examples. I prefer as a democratic way of life to What's left to discuss tha...
He was a poor, sick man. I wasn't. Different experiences lead to different conclusions. Some do, some don't; some find it, some receive it, some inven...
No. It would take a week to track down all the pieces of such a quilt. Yes, you've said, on several occasions. Except for all the gods Socrates is sup...
Dunno that I would trust a rabbit with my life... But horses very often and cats sometimes have saved the lives of their human companions. I hear Jesu...
My sentiments exactly, except that none of the people and dogs I've learned to trust over the years ever asked me to bomb, burn, stone or chop the hea...
Right. So... They believe that their God is all-powerful, all-knowing, loving, merciful and benevolent. Except they're not sure enough to trust him/th...
I'm not recommending a book. Your proposed book is fine - so long as it has lots of company from different perspectives. I'm recommending - warning - ...
The bastard has thus far shown no inclination to die at all. https://shepherd.com/book/towing-jehovah He's got more adherents now than ever before, co...
No, I wouldn't. I've listed and cited enough examples enough times to have internalized the list of atrocities - well, the European ones, anyway. I do...
That sounds like a contradiction. Why would someone who believes he'll keep living after he dies hang on to a life he finds hard to tolerate? Why, for...
That's all "salvation" can be. Religion may provide many benefits besides eternal life for the chosen believers: it can provide tribal unity, communit...
Yah, the whole exceptional, we're above-all-that, reality-can't-get-me cuz I made up a supernatural protector delusion. I got that. But in order for s...
I suspect that might be more accurately stated as "I have not experienced a spiritual yearning, and therefore do not believe that anyone has or can." ...
It actually does. The Japanese, some of the most modern-stressed people in the world, prescribe forest therapy for burnout, grief, recovery from illne...
Nature works. Just go out in the woods, or walk along a beach; gaze at stars or learn about coral reefs. Our earliest conscious, reasoning connection ...
I didn't say anything about how much you, personally, know about what aspect of history. I'm merely warning that, regardless what else is taught in th...
That's the search fundamentalists - the real literalists - are all about rejecting. "Don't ask questions. Don't think abut it. Just obey the rules." I...
In response to college educated liberal Christian theologians. It was a backlash of illiteracy. Atheists as a class of scapegoat hadn't been invented ...
Ah! Some atheists are said to adopt a certain pattern of thought, which renders that pattern of thought "atheist dogma" and that is the cause of relig...
So.... all the bad religious shit listed above is caused by ideas, and since ideas fall into the purview of atheists.... ? I'm not following. Shouldn'...
If he's a sociopath, no problem. If he has a conscience, she is its voice and he can't help hearing that, though he might be able to rationalize his w...
It also enables misogynistic men to buy a wife/ sex slave/ punching bag and save a ton of money, risk of disease and legal hassle on prostitutes. (You...
By making amends for his originals wrongdoing. An apology is not enough; she also demanded that he confess. If he's done that, he's already in prison,...
Whereas, it wasn't even remotely about religion or any kind of moral principle. (Lincoln: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would...
It mainly applies to entities that have some power to affect our lives, environment, economic interactions, safety, etc. Individual strangers rarely h...
And even more so in a United Nations style loose federation of independent states, who sign on to a charter of human rights and international law. Gov...
I was aware of that. Also, that if you transpose a remark from one context to another, it becomes nonsense. But not, AFAIK, to the level of killing 58...
And also because humans love magic; they crave miracles, wishing wells, love potions, lucky charms, the end of the rainbow. They desire wish-control o...
I guess secular liberals are at fault for having "abolished Christmas" by removing the nativity scenes from government buildings and "persecuting Chri...
They say... But did they want to? Were they trying? If they were unsuccessful, you assume it's because of factors they can't help and can't change - a...
However, to a great many people receiving daily threats, and those who have already been attacked, it is very serious indeed. The fact that the 'movem...
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