Has anyone heard of state atheism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_atheism In 1967 Enver Hoxha, the head of state of Albania, declared Albania to ...
You could say no beliefs matter whatsoever. Life is temporary we live between 0 to 100 years. What we do in that time is irrelevant. However beliefs a...
I was surprised as a young adult to find out the bible has numerous contradictions in it. And I felt I had been lied to as a child and not exposed to ...
This is the start of Wikipedias article on Atheism: "Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities" At one stage...
I am not sure I understand you. I think disbelief requires a belief. How are you defining disbelief? I don't believe in Santa Claus because I have ano...
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an ...
Julien Offray de La Mettrie was an atheist Philsopher and Physician in 1749 he Published the book "Man a Machine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_a_...
I quoted Richard Dawkins earlier: "Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communic...
I think the break down of causality is a serious problem. Humans have survived through varying states of ignorance from having basic knowledge of our ...
That wasn't my point.I said if a God created us he or she could know what's best for us like we know how a computer best functions because we created ...
Another issue is subjectivity where we end up just having a society focused on individual preferences, viewpoints and theories. This is what we seem t...
I do not think a morality from a Creator deity/God is arbitrary. Take for example the human built watch. We built a watch for a purpose, we designed i...
I think if you want to be rid of an intelligent creator God type thing than you have to be prepared to explain everything without reference to it. For...
What I don't think survives in morality is truth value. My notion of morality is not just rules humans invent for various reasons but the notion of mo...
Just because something survives doesn't mean it is adaptive but nevertheless by that standard religion has been more popular than atheism and has enco...
Because like I said a deity would have extended versions of powers humans possess. We have done a remarkable job of exploring and explaining and creat...
I am saying we just need to believe the world makes sense and then ask why it makes sense and has laws and coherency. It is like Paley's watch maker. ...
The religious stance I was brought up on was That Humans are inherently sinful and failing. We do know the right answer but are disobedient and sinful...
Morality as in a system of behaviour we expect ourselves and others to follow as if compelled. I am not pro or anti abortion. I am man so can't have o...
All of them. There is no correct answer. Prominent issues dividing people include Abortion and assisted suicide, capitalism and anti-capitalism. Even ...
It took humans thousands of years to start understanding reality. The notion is that we eventually uncover the correct morality which we discover is i...
The problem is we have had the Nazis, Pol pot and Mao along with the despots of religions. People make moral decisions all the time with terrible cons...
If morality is the product of humans then why can't it be the products of gods? If we think we can do a good job of creating a moral system then why c...
But moral issues can never be resolved. We cannot prove the Holocaust was wrong or a sin or breaking a natural law. Our current moral systems can be o...
We are trying to understand ourselves in the process of that we explore our character in different ways and our limitations and capacities. Religions ...
One thing In do believe is that morality cannot survive in a purely physical, design free world where we are just an another animal. I am currently a ...
You said: I am not a theist but you clearly have your prejudices towards them and seem to assume I was one with no evidence. You have given me some in...
As opposed to what? You have a deep understanding of science you want to impart which does not reduce things to fundamental particles? Go ahead. They ...
I am defending them as an explanation. Giving them explanatory powers. The thread title was "Does theism ultimately explain anything?" Somethings have...
They say gods are made in mans image. Nature is described through human faculties and perception, reason, meaning and intent and these are the attribu...
That is the impression I get. I may have described myself as atheist before I studied philosophy and psychology at university and in particular philos...
I have heard of the Glasgow Coma scale. "The GCS assesses a person based on their ability to perform eye movements, speak, and move their body. These ...
But in my question you know that you will continue to exist. The important part is the continuation of your existence. What happens now when you make ...
I don't see a problem with transferring an identity across mediums. Henry the 8th wrote the tune Greensleeves it is thought. It was turned from music ...
That is how we have progress because people reject social norms by thinking for themselves and not being bound by social norms and reasoning models. T...
How does that follow? I am actually opposed to the notion of punishment and a prison abolitionist. But I believe in truthfully and correctly attributi...
Consciousness is unnecessary for life to exist. I don't assume plants are conscious. Whether or not consciousness is dependent on the biological notio...
They are presenting a straw man then or being patronising. It does not follow that if you believe in free will you become a foaming at the mouth lynch...
If someone's body is dead how is the continuation of their consciousness the continuation of life? If a radio breaks down the radio programme still ex...
We have no idea how consciousness works to know whether or not it survives bodily death. We don't see consciousness in brains and it is a private subj...
When I went under general anesthetic it was sunny one moment then I woke up in what seemed like an instant and it was dark outside. If death is like c...
I am referring to a coherent continuation of a persons consciousness. As when we wake up each day aware of being the same person. For an afterlife My ...
I wasn't at all thinking of my autism diagnosis when I started this thread and it was unrelated to that. But now I think of it it is probably a situat...
I'm not sure what you mean. I was trying to illustrate how compromise can be harmful and can hide societal malaise. By someone sacrificing their belie...
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