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Sounds like I would like reading him. I once read an article I think he wrote where he said something like, all of modern academic philosophy is peopl...

Effortlessly brilliant. This is why I wish you and I could get along. The only part I think I don’t follow is “real” and “imaginary” as applied to num...

Hey Richard, Isn’t the above similar to just saying: “if we define our terms we can say whatever we want.” “from one use” distinct from “to the next” ...

I was just pointing out that a free society could all agree to hold a vote to elect one final dictator as leader, and vote to abolish the constitution...

So thinking faith equals knowledge is bad. We are still talking about badness. But I agree. What I hear there is, ‘bad religion and bad science are ba...

Sounds like religion is bad. Like other ideological persuasions are bad. Still sounds like a contradiction with “faith is neither good nor bad.” Still...

Cool question. So a guy walks in the room. You recognize his face and recall you saw him in the cafe this morning. You heard his name, because someone...

Nothing relevant to this discussion. You might infer I have kids and I love them. But that is not why I said it. I don’t think I could be any clearer ...

Same.

The point I am trying to make is, there is probably a more philosophic conversation about “what is faith” to be had than “what is religious faith” has...

I appreciate your work here. I used to moderate a forum once. And I manage a team of people. People are a nightmare. So you know, I don’t feel any wor...

What an obtuse head you have. “Faith is neither good nor bad.” - Banno “For instance ” - Banno “Any examples of non-bad acts of faith, because you jus...

So, what I said was when I think of faith, I think of moms and dad living their kids. When Banno and others around here think of faith, they think of ...

What fallacy is the above? What did I say about atheists? Nothing. How did you assume anything I was saying about atheists?

Because, like I said, maybe you can’t. You’ve been caught in a contradiction.

That is silly. Unless religion/religious fervor is also the chief source of global good. Get rid of all religion, I guarantee you, harm by humans skyr...

I really don’t see evidence that many of you are any good at identifying heinous acts. You’re not being very observant. Religious people, generally, a...

Don’t you see how none of what you just said addresses what I asked? All of what you just said contradicts “faith is neither good nor bad” because tha...

I’m not asking about theism. Never really brought up God first in this whole thread. I can’t seem to make you believe that I think there are non-theol...

Maybe you are incapable? I’m just happy I got you to admit faith of itself has no necessary good or bad to it. (Which I’m not sure you really believe....

Understood by many? Well they are all wrong. But why are we really talking about this? No offense to @"Bitconnectcarlos", but I don’t think Banno will...

So I covered the positive, beneficial acts of faith? Can you show me where I did that? I didn’t think you noticed. I’d rather hear you say something p...

I’ll take a stab. The problem is, there are serious things to talk about. Lightness and sarcasm break the tension, but don’t resolve it. It’s not that...

Ok cool. But, are there any positive aspects to faith to talk about?

Not at all. Are there any other aspects of faith to talk about Banno?

Give a blind guy sight, take him for a walk on water, raise his brother from the dead, and he can still say “yeah, but how did you really do it?”

And the liberal version of tolerance towards the religious or other disfavored ones, doesn’t seem to involve any actual respect. As long as the religi...

On TPF, in this context, nothing you can say to me, should be limited in any way. I hope you speak highly of me and agree with everything I say, but i...

Never? You and your five sprinting friends are at the track at the starting line. Someone says, “On your marks…Get set….” What act would follow someon...

Yes, we agree.

I agree with that too. Democracies legislate themselves into paralysis and bitter faction. And today with the media rooting for sides, faction ing has...

True. I just mean from this earth. People will always move towards or revert back to democracy now. Even if the reversion starts with a prison riot.

No, I’m saying if I didn’t have a measuring stick that had nothing to do with how I identify things, I couldn’t take measure of what my assignment at ...

And that is why today and into the future, we have to protect a society that can continue to make its own laws, to reflect its own changing values. De...

What I’m saying is, I wouldn’t be able to see the difference between the sex I was born as and the gender I identify as, if “male” and “female” and “m...

Hey Wolf, There’s another thread here about this. My thought are here. And I generally agree with you. Limiting any speech, by law, based on its conte...

Doesn’t everyone stipulate the following according to the law of non-contradiction: Male is different than not-Male, or Female. Female is different th...

But will you happily judge a faith sufficient to risk one’s life to save another as good? If so then there is nothing good or bad necessarily involved...

You didn’t address the more substantive parts. Therefore “belief based on insufficient evidence” happens everyday. You admitted that. Doesn’t that mea...

Bottom line, I think you are too hard on faith and acting without sufficient evidence. Plenty of good and reasonable outcomes follow many acts of fait...

How does a person transition from one sex to another, say from male to female, without a prior clear, absolute conception of “male” and “female” they ...

So do you agree I understand you or not? You said: “ “Faith involves acting on belief without sufficient evidence" And you said: So I clarified your s...

Who me- my point? I want to make sure we are talking about the same thing before I critique it. And nothing else I said misunderstood that premise, co...

Ok good, so we are just talking. I just want to make sure we are on the same page. So the premise is: “Faith involves acting on belief without suffici...

This is a ton of content. Just to see if I can pass an entrance exam, can I re-write the premise summary to strengthen it bit: “Faith is belief in som...

I’m not angry or complaining. I think you do better than that. Not only do you not mind theists, you bring up God or religious faith yourself. Which i...

Yeah, but not about those theist’s thoughts about God and religion - concerned about those people’s thoughts about policy, law and enforcement. We wer...

Sounds like Leibniz or Spinoza too. Or maybe Malebranch, or Hegel’s absolute, or Berkley. Or Aristotle’s prime mover, or the Platonic “good” or Plotin...

Lousy people to talk to about any religion, be it their own or the ones they rigidly belittle. Shake the dust off of your sandals when leaving those d...

Well then, on behalf of myself, and all those who muddle through my posts, thank you for that extra consideration you’ve given. You’ve given us all ba...