Pro Hominem

It's a measure of what degree any belief is based upon an appeal to reason and evidence as opposed to ideology or magical thinking. Under the correct ...

There's probably an interesting conversation here, but we are WAY off the topic of this thread now.

Paraphrased, one cannot make either logically valid or logically sound statements about God, because God is non-existent. Well said.

I think we need to a third axis: Rational <-----------------------------> Irrational (Magical? Conspiracist? Nonsensical? Trumpist?)

Wow. That is a singularly argumentative attempt to define the term. Uh, this would probably require its own thread to unpack. I would venture that it ...

Wasn't intending to call you out. In other words, I wasn't suggesting that your use of it was inappropriate in any way. Really I was just looking for ...

I don't really see how secularism applies in those cases. How are you using the term?

I think Constantine is a better choice. Avoid Christianity/Catholicism altogether.

What the theist has to say IS a demeaning fantasy. Restatements of stale ontological tautologies don't change that. Have you ever argued with a true b...

Negates what? I don't understand what you are trying to say. I acknowledge that there are undesirable things in human experience, but I was making the...

I'd say he lent more to the development of democracy and individualism than secularism. The scientific revolution and the decline of monarchy were mor...

Schism, moral turpitude of Renaissance popes, deep ignorance among the clergy, etc., etc. Basically all the stuff that would have required the Counter...

I agree that the existence of differing religions does not, by itself, logically require that they are all false. However, the multitude of mutually e...

This seems a little oversimplified. I feel like it may apply to particular types of unpleasantness, like some anxieties or disappointments, but it wou...

He was predated (fairly significantly) by both Wycliffe and Hus, to name the most well-known examples. Luther's advantage wasn't his novelty or the st...

You haven't asked the most important question. Can man create a god who can create a rock he can't lift? Seriously. Think about it.

I made a joke about Disney and then invited someone to comment in a completely different thread. Because I post on this forum to entertain myself, whi...

Maybe God's omniscience works like any other argument one has with a theist: 1. God knows that X 2. God is presented with evidence to show that X is f...

Sure there is. When they kidnap us for sexual experiments, if they produce viable offspring who are themselves capable of reproduction, then we're the...

You haven't asked a question yet, so it will be difficult for anyone to engage with this thread. You seem to admire some of his ideas and contribution...

Keep in mind, the point he started this whole bizarre journey from was that a being whose primary stated purpose is to pass judgment actually sees all...

LOLOLOL This totally took me here: https://i.imgflip.com/wjurk.jpg

You were hoping for something from the Neanderthal point of view?

It would if they were time-traveling humans who have come from the future to save their interstellar society from our primitive mistakes by eating us.

Curious if you have any thoughts on the term "atheist" itself, as someone who self-describes this way. I posited a different terminology in another th...

Of course not. Believing humans are at the top of the food chains is as absurd as believing in cannibalistic aliens.

Clothing began as a survival adaptation. Prehistoric humans needed it to protect them from their environment. As hierarchies formed and communities en...

No. He can't. He never does. He won't start now.

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Congratulations! I don't know if anyone has specifically delineated the "appeal to aliens" in the list of fallacies. If you hurry, you can claim credi...

Sort of like the modern Lincoln Project: he was no friend of the People, but for a little while they shared a common enemy. What is it about him you w...

Because I was winning every single argument on the Disney forums, so I went looking for tougher opponents.

I think you're looking in the right direction when you bring up complexity. Your phrasing of the question is decidedly negative, however. Don't be so ...

It is, in the death certificate, filled out by a health professional. I'm sure if someone presented you with statistics for other causes of death, you...

Because no one who doesn't agree with you can legitimately oppose racism? Because you have some special understanding of the issue that only you can p...

Cool. I agree that many of the effects of racism are socio-economic, and those will remain ever if the underlying racism diminishes. We are seeing tha...

I still see you conflating systemic and interpersonal racism. I think this is the thing causing the biggest problem in this whole thread. I might even...

I fundamentally disagree. If we all became effectively "colorless", it wouldn't immediately release people from jails or poverty, but it would dramati...

If you went with "white blindness", or even the more aggressive "white ignorance" here, I could at least see clear reasoning for it, and my only conce...

Yes, I am aware of de facto and de jure discrimination, I just didn't understand what you were referring to when you mentioned minimums above. The de ...

Yes, this is (metaphorically) how our world operates. List of fallacies Please, spend some real time going over this. I would recommend you start by s...

You said you have kids. Have you ever tried to teach one of them something and they say "I already know this!" If they think they know it, teaching th...

They're not mine, they are the common uses of the terms in these conversations, per my growing internet research over the lingering days I continue to...

You've left something out of the quote. The example you gave was about black people drowning in swimming pools. I can't say I'm acquainted with the ra...

Probably. It is possible there are things so simple that one can learn them without needing to be aware that one doesn't know them. Pretty sure this m...

Not really. When was the last time someone said anything to you about your whiteness? The reality is that there is ordinary interpersonal interaction,...

No. I mean what "systemic" means. Embodied in a system. Systemic racism is a formal, structural phenomenon whereby institutions deny services or discr...

What? I don't really think you believe that. That's just for argument's sake, right? Devil's advocate? I invite you to enumerate examples of "white co...

Let me say this as clearly as possible. You have absolutely NO IDEA what my experience is. You are also apparently unaware that engaging in speculatio...

It has far fewer consequences than if they identified me as black. But what does that have to do with this conversation? "Many people engage in lazy a...