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Religion has thrived in every time and place, at least since the invention of agriculture, and likely in less organized forms before that. Ignoring th...

A good philosophy professor answers every question with another question, drawing the listener in to their own investigation. A not so good philosophy...

The purpose of philosophy is to give those of us afflicted with big picture nerd minds something to do that sounds important, thus making us feel impo...

If you're actually interested in the subject you'll do more than sit on your fat ass waiting for me to type something you can reject. :-) We're done, ...

Well, Christians and Muslims worship the same God, so I'd guess it will be awhile.

Sorry, I got confused and thought the thread had something to do with what is reasonable.

The method to my madness is to encourage readers to do some of the thinking involved for themselves. But ok, here's a clue. People seek food (ie. mean...

We can't sum up anything as large as religion in a word, but ok, that's a place to start. It's clear that many people look to religion to provide mean...

Isn't it interesting how popular it is to call Trump stupid. And yet he is President, and we are not. And he is rich, and we are not. And he totally d...

The lack of understanding of religion on all the philosophy forums is pretty remarkable. A socialist utopia would have considerable merit, but it won'...

Thank you for your highly predictable reactionary gotcha remark. I say potato, you say potawto. I say potawto, you say potato. I say tomato, you say t...

I'm voting for Trump because of this amazing accomplishment. He's made us long for traditional politicians! Incredible! Who knew that was possible??? ...

From another perspective, this problem goes away. Like this... Each person can examine Christian suggestions for themselves, try out those suggestions...

Hear my applause for a thoughtful well constructed argument. Here are a few thoughts which your post inspired. ========= 1) According to the Gospels, ...

Imho, it happened, but not literally. That is, in my view, the story represents in fable form the emergence of thought (ie. knowledge) in human beings...

It could be of course. Not being God myself I don't claim to know. This might interest you... About a month ago I heard a story on NPR where they inte...

God is bound by logic rules invented by human beings? If there is a God, he created a vast universe out of nothing or something very close to it. Tryi...

Perhaps this is the "mainstream" view primarily among those already inclined not to believe in God, who are in fact, not actually the mainstream? I wo...

1) Science develops new knowledge. 2) Is that a good thing? 3) That depends on whether we can handle the new knowledge.

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Well, if Nietzsche's view was that all Christians are X, then he was an incompetent commentator on that particular s...

1) Is science a generally reliable method of generating new knowledge? I'm guessing we'd all agree the answer is yes. 2) Can human beings successfully...

Well, given that there are a couple of billion Christians, and that earnest disagreements of interpretation exist even within single congregations, an...

It often seems true that it is ourselves that we are writing to, and that we often don't quite realize who our intended audience really is.

Philosophy forums may over represent the phenomena that concerns you, because they tend to be dominated by privileged young suburban white almost men ...

And, please note, the real topic of this thread is talking about departed members behind their backs once they no longer have the opportunity to reply...

Can you expand on this? Why did Nietzsche feel that Christian morality is slave morality? Why did he label it "meaningless, undesirable and devastatin...

Correct. So just keep on doing what you're doing, and the mods can take care of it from there.

Stick with that and you'll stay out of trouble. Detailed is good, refuting Christianity or anything else is fine. If you insist on repeatedly posting ...

We get that you are against Christianity. I have no problem with that at all. But please stop clogging every other thread with lazy, boring, juvenile ...

To quibble, Jesus was a socialist. A communist would not have said "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's".

Of course it has atoms, but the pencil overwhelmingly consists of space, like everything else. You know, an atom is mostly space. Right. And so space ...

Existence = made of atoms. "Existence" is a human concept which is useful in our everyday lives at human scale. A pencil exists on my desk. Even thoug...

Generally agreed, and this is why I often include the alternate descriptor of "relative nothing" to describe space. Anyway, the point is that space do...

Space. The vast majority of reality. Does not neatly fit in to either the "exists" or "not exists" category. Explained this now about 100 times in a n...

Oh my.... I'm open to nature maybe having intentionality. But... Pinned it's hopes on humans? Hopes for what? Violent suicidal nature wrecking madness...

For the 99th time, I would like to respectfully suggest we try dropping the "does God exist or not" paradigm. The vast majority of reality does not ti...

Right, it doesn't make sense to because 1) our minds have been trained by evolution to focus on things, and 2) thought works by dividing reality in to...

If democratic inclusion and freedom for users is the priority for a site, ok, that's a choice which can be made. The price tag for that choice is medi...

You've demonstrated that you like other people to type things you can object to.

Online discourse will never be improved so long as almost all sites use a publishing model where almost anybody can say almost anything. That model ca...

God, creator, supreme being, supernatural entity. These are nouns. Like all nouns they presume the existence (or non-existence) of some separate pheno...

I said nothing about being bored by those topics. I said nothing about cheering posts. If you're going to be purely reactive, you could perhaps react ...

I said nothing about cheering. What I did say was, develop and share your own ideas. Start some threads. Present your thesis. Or not. If you prefer to...

The most dramatic and imminent pressing concern are the thousands of large (way bigger than Hiroshima) hydrogen bombs aimed at major population center...

Your posts are predictably of the gotcha flavor. Try developing your own ideas instead of just waiting for someone to post something you can object to...

I've been trying to explain that. 1) It's because evolution has trained our minds to focus on things, the predator, the potato. 2) It's because though...

Here's the kind of event I'm arguing will be necessary to change the sleepy status quo group think on nuclear weapons. The following video briefly des...

Casting my vote here.

A few thoughts in reply, hopefully relevant... 1) I like a theory that space is God, that everything arises from nothing, for reasons unknown. In one ...

Here's a good description of the time somebody at NORAD mistakenly put a training tape in the computer, which convinced the national security apparatu...