"Believing" in a religion means that you accept the religion's moral rules as a matter of self-discipline. So, if an atheist accepts, for example, the...
The fact that information is documented does not necessarily give it authority. It is simply strong evidence that the information exists. There is sim...
It does mean that there is no need for ethics in atheism, because it rejects all other, existing rules for ethics without proposing an alternative tak...
Well, no. That is not absurd. Atheism rejects all other rules without proposing alternative ones, while still accepting the idea that such rules are n...
Documenting information allows it to be objectively transmitted. It also allows the information be stored without alterations. Civilization has been k...
The hadiths are documented now. It does not matter today that they were initially transmitted orally. That only mattered in the period during which th...
Atheism may reject God's law, i.e. tenets and rules, but it clearly does not propose alternative tenets or rules. That entails that there would be no ...
No, I know for a fact that this is not true. No matter how many times we have asked atheists to do that, they haven't, even though they perfectly well...
My remark was concerning the following statement: I was just pointing out that it would be possible to fix the last sentence by writing: Requiring law...
If the rule really exists, then it should be possible to write it down, no? So, why don't they do it? I think that it is obvious that the religious sc...
In an illiterate society there is no need to document anything, not even the laws. Nothing. So, the real question becomes: Why are we reading and writ...
Yes, I do. I took my kids out of school for a whole year, appointed an (excellent) Filipina tutor for their English instead. Next, we travelled all to...
There is actually a procedure in which they will double-check new laws in quite a few countries. They will check a new law against the constitution in...
I tried to look up this concept but the wikipedia pages for peano axioms and natural number do not seem to mention this subtlety. I assume that "a col...
When you say "laws are supposed to be moral", you are comparing two descriptions, i.e. the description of a law versus the description of morality, in...
If you know upfront that the knowledge will be useful, it will most likely only be very moderately useful. The reward is proportional with the risk yo...
Well, I wasn't. I had to discover things by myself. I grew up surrounded by a wider environment of what later turned out to be cultural Marxists. Char...
I only addressed the question of education. It is not hard to become a worthless idiot of whom the stupidity is certified by a worthless degree along ...
In fact, I have just translated their position at Martin Luther's trial into more modern terminology, in conjunction with Church's position in the art...
I have picked just one of your simplistic and alarming phrases. Maybe we should first discuss something like Aaron Clarey's book, "Worthless": You may...
Yes, agreed. Russell's sentence actually is self-referencing. Yes, agreed. As far as I am concerned, there is indeed nothing paradoxical about Cantor'...
It would mean that all sentences that are provable in the theory can also be confirmed to be true in its standard model-universe-world (=semantic comp...
Unfortunately, the author proceeds by using a definition that fails to mention the falsificationist nature of science. So, as far as I am concerned, t...
If you make a model of reality, then you are engaged in an empirical discipline (such as science). Such model cannot possibly be an exercise in mathem...
Adding axioms does not necessarily increase the power of a theory, but it pretty much always increases the amount of trust that the theory requires. F...
Even though I formally agree with your views on the matter, I still want to point out what Stephen Hawking wrote on the subject: Hawking may indeed be...
I have literally lifted and distilled from their own publications the desire of the Holy Apostolic Church to control our morality by using occult secr...
I very libertarian myself. If you think away Islam, you may even think that I am libertarian. However, Islam encapsulates and constrains my libertaria...
The problem is what the Catholic encyclopedia says on the living magisterium: So, if I understand it right, the Church has access to "Divine instructi...
That is context dependent. It certainly happens. By leading a congregation of believers in prayer, the imam is simply too visible and too much of a pu...
By choosing a religion, you are choosing a system of rules that specifies what behaviour is right and wrong. My own, main concern is the same as for a...
Allowing the corporate oligarchy to dictate the law and its resulting morality is considered utmost evil in Islam: While trade and commerce are clearl...
For the religious believer (Judaism and Islam), "the law" means religious law, which is largely a matter of self-discipline and not so much of enforce...
Possibly. I am not a religious scholar, though. It is better to ask such jurisprudential question to one or more independent scholars ("mufti") and to...
For example, North American society advocates taking out interest-carrying student loans. In Islamic morality, that amounts to encouraging bad behavio...
To cut a long story short, it is presumptuous to predict what will happen on the Day of the Last Judgment. We will all have sinned, regardless of our ...
The reason why you cannot prove premises within the formal system is because it would merely lead to infinite regress. Furthermore, as far as I am con...
If you do not want children, then in that case, do not make any. That's your own choice, isn't it? Furthermore, I also believe that people who do not ...
For the one or the other totally incomprehensible reason, there are western people who are totally deluded to believe that their take on women's right...
I agree for organized clergy. They are as much under control of the corporate oligarchy as for example doctors. So, yes, beware of mouthpieces of the ...
If you look at a practical example of a formal system for morality, it seems to be possible to generally answer a good number of questions, e.g. https...
I suspect that you may be seeing too much in that. In other words, you would need to knowingly do some really bad things to be refused entry into Para...
Islamic law is a "self-obligation", i.e. self-discipline. Nobody in particular told me to start keeping its rules. If I break these rules, I do not ex...
A formal system of ethics will have system-wide premises, if only, the axiomatization of logic itself. Unless you adopt an extreme form of logicism, t...
Yes, certainly. It is your choice. I would like to add: be careful with organized clergy. There is a major difference between asking advice to an inde...
I guess that the first red pill to take concerning "a good education" is Aaron Clarey's notorious book "Worthless". But then again, even high school i...
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