By divine choice. Again, you are trying to stuff an enormous concept into a little wee bag. Also, you have a fractal standing in for the entire pictur...
Not when you're talking about a god that is supposed to have created all the galaxies and everything therein. The one who made up all the rules. If yo...
Absolutely true. I didn't open it for Hegel; I thought the Triads in the title might be interesting. But I was struck by that impenetrable paragraph a...
That's a "nice" if not very convincing argument for a god who created suffering in the first place. Well, in fact, all organized religious arguments a...
Thanks for trying. I already knew Aristotle had some silly ideas about a reality that's so much realer than mere reality. Divine navel-gazing is just ...
I think it's a deepity. Way too many words to convey nothing intelligible. But they sound good. Not only I can't imagine what it means; I can't even i...
What burden? Who invented it? Whose concepts are blame and merit? Gods, if they existed, would not be answerable; would not even deign to contemplate ...
star-stuff.... it's exactly as meaningful as you make it. Star stuff is just atoms. We glorious humans are made of it and so is our excrement once it ...
Can you clarify any of the terms used in that passage? How does love disport with anything, let alone itself. It sounds like disembodied onanism, whic...
Yes, I agree on the negative side. Consent should never be presumed, unless there is nation-wide consensus. On the other side, however, I make a sharp...
Only if the potential donor gets to specify what they are opting in or out of. Making yet another privileged a baby is not a matter of life and death....
Organ donation can significantly prolong and improve the life of the recipient with something they need. Surrogacy can provide some people a child the...
How does financial saving translate into ethics? And why is it more ethical to co-opt the bodies of unsuspecting brain-dead women for the use of privi...
I can offer one - the same one you did, below. The faithful are too dependent on their faith, whether it's simple and ignorant or learned and sophisti...
Sure, why not? The ineffable universal Light doesn't demand that you chop off your baby's foreskin or make your daughter cover her face in public. It ...
I see. They If they don't ask, don't tell them. So, what most Christians believe is not what their pastors believe. But is it then still the same God ...
Okay. So, none of the stories are true? What is this "broader truth"? For that matter, what is it broader than? Who are these allegorical stories real...
I don't. I'm asking the most superficial, obvious question - not necessarily of you, but of any or all apologists: If not from the Bible, where does t...
It's God's word when it suits them, on some subjects. Pick'n'choose. I added: "Or claim to believe, even while they deny that what's written there mea...
You sure don't look it! Gee, one's a saint and the other's infallibe... And yet that scripture is the source of their belief in sin, Jesus, resurrecti...
Okay, you're on! What is beyond these boxes of theistic claims that should be considered? If all gods described in all holy books and pulpits are of s...
No. I have said that the god most frequently referred-to in discussions is the one depicted in the Bible. Do non-fundamentalist Christians draw their ...
How can I twist and distort the idea in someone else's head? I can respond only to what they describe and recount. If I give a false version of the th...
I had some trouble with it myself. I've never, that I can recall, attempted to box or stack a god. I disbelieve in all the ones I've heard of, and the...
You can have all the theist conversations you like without any butting in from me.... so long as they don't open with: The trouble with atheists is......
Why?? What's wrong with him and his life? This is real to me as a psychological problem unique to human animals, but not common to all human animals. ...
That we were at one time keenly aware of a very great loss. Whether it's interpreted as a fall from grace, original, or the inability to speak the lan...
I find it difficult to reconcile this ^ with this v If reincarnation is an actual thing, that's just the moment you must resolve to do better - no? Of...
As far as Pascal was concerned, no other gods but Jehovah would come under consideration; everyone whose religion was not rooted in the bible was simp...
It's never about the existence of a god, either. We can believe, with or without evidence, that all kinds of things exist: black holes, wormholes, sub...
That's hardly unique. If you really want to judge on evidence, you first have to decide what is and what is not admissible in your particular court. I...
Wait a minute! The output who is entitled to? And what exactly is the 'output'? Productivity in the workplace? Monetary success? Social advancement? W...
Social organizations are not based on any 'bottom line', because there is no final result, only steps in a series of events and relationships. That ra...
You got free money, yes? You didn't earn it, but in order to keep it, you have to share it. By offering a paltry share, you show yourself to be an ava...
That's how it was envisaged in the US, back in 1965. But the results are always different from the idea: working people who are not eligible for socia...
You must live in a very progressive country! Not all governance and social organization is based on a principle of equity. And not all governments hav...
Logic. You're the one who wants justification based on logic, rather than sentiment. There are too many people; 150 million are undernourished, yet we...
Hunger affects more people than liver disease. But that wasn't my point. Logically, if a practice benefits someone whom we as a society consider worth...
That's because "we" who rule the world now killed off the peoples who did eat or at least sample and preserve body parts of their enemies, as they wer...
Does when they're voting, legislating or trying civil cases. It doesn't matter. I have already classified them as property, to be disposed like the re...
To their family and friends, yes. The law will have to make its new rule according to constitution and precedent: whatever laws applied to the desecra...
And if a very rich person invested in a whole medical facility dedicated to artificially sustaining human incubators for rent, they could get very muc...
Because she didn't know what he was being donated for. She assumed it was medical research, which would have been all right. He had been a wasteful dr...
I covered property and wills. The body itself, however, is no longer a person whose interest the courts can protect. The body is property; part of the...
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