A more apples to apples comparison is, ceteris paribus, the US (72% religious) to Sweden (17% religious) and the respective level of living standards ...
You're my piñata, kid. As long as you keep spouting nonsense on a public forum like you have on this thread, I'll call you on it whenever I'm bored en...
We do not "disagree" on interpreting the same, relevant facts. You conspicuously grasp much fewer of the 'facts of religion' than I (and quite a few o...
Like any drug, religion (gods-fetish) is both medicine and poison, tool and weapon, cure and illness. The latter, however, is much more easy to abuse ...
Magical thinking, learned helplessness, reality / death-denial, trust in imaginary friends, fear of imaginary enemies, etc – you don't see any problem...
One hasn't become the other and in no substantial sense were they ever synonymous; natural philosophy and the natural sciences are just complementary ...
:up: Epicurus says as much: religion increases anxieties (e.g. fear of sin (guilt), divine judgment, afterlife / no afterlife, evil spirits, etc) more...
I would add to the list of significant 20th century 'innovations' • fallibilism (e.g. C.S. Peirce-J. Dewey, K. Popper-P. Feyerabend, S. Haack, D. Deut...
@"Banno" @"Hanover" @"Fooloso4" @"coolazice" @"Isaac" @"praxis" and anyone else who's scolded me recently :point: I received my first Pfizer jab yeste...
People infantilize themselves by making shit up aka woo-of-the-gaps, imaginary cosmic lollipops because that's always been far easier (safer) than fuc...
"God" (The empty name!) is a greater mystery used to explain the mystery of existence; of course, a mystery begs rather than answers a question and th...
No. I only listed my favorite albums (though I left out quite a few more) from my favorite quarter century of popular music. 1981 till now has compara...
It is a concise, symmetrical, even fractal-like meditation on déjà vu stuck inside a time travel Möbius loop. That's why I had commented Makes sense i...
I love Gene Wolfe! He certainly could be an influence – maybe why it wasn't an easier read for most – but, as I say, unconsciously so and not delibera...
You're still peddling fatuous nonsense so I want to make sure that's as conspicuous as possible, or at least contribute to flogging your ignorance. Fo...
:up: https://youtu.be/_RfUj09pWfM "If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward, then, brother, that person is a piec...
Thanks. Not sure. I was going for a folklore-like feel so unconsciously fantasy (pulp?) writers like Poul Anderson, Michael Moorcock, Octavia Butler, ...
Well, as demonstrated here, you were quite a poor student of religion. I've already pointed out that with or without religion, some people would still...
I didn't provide interpretations, just quotes from the Bible. You're either wilfully ignorant or in denial or both, and welcome to it, friend. Whichev...
No. There is not any evidence that 'something & not-something' (i.e. atoms & void) were "created"; therefore, there's is not a "creator" or cause of '...
For an entire permanent space habitat populated by tens of thousands or more, solar power is auxiliary at best. Nuclear power (optimally fusion, other...
Fusion would be optimal but not indispensable; fission is very much workable as a proven power generating technology. No "optimism" on my part, just a...
:up: :smirk: Given that our problems are man-made and consecrated / canonized by religion (i.e. the cure that infects us), make the world "a better pl...
Glad you appreciate a bunch of those albums (or artists). Yeah, I'm a fan of eighties era U2 (esp. War, The Joshua Tree & Rattle and Hum). There is ju...
Doesn't the fact of an observer presuppose reality? If so, then the OP doesn't make sense. If not, then the observer is imaginary, which doesn't make ...
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