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In that in E, there is no element of choice. It's the state of mind when one has throughly considered the issue, but ends up, even literally, with an ...

It would be interesting to see what effect random changing numbers under a poster's name would have. Ie. so that the same poster one day has, say, 5 a...

I think this requires a different approach. First of all, don't let them dictate the terms. As long as we attempt to discuss "the existence of God" or...

Exactly. Instead of treating it as a philosophical artifact, treat it the way religious theists have been treating it for millennia: a matter of divin...

Your questions and posts on the topic of "God" indicate otherwise. They indicate that you're trying to arrive at certainty about God via an abstract l...

But you're not a theist in any actual, established religious sense of the word. You couldn't go to a particular church, join the religious community t...

Not from what I've seen. At least on internet forums, I've seen plenty of aggressive agnostics trying to fight it out both with theists as well as ath...

It seems more likely to me that the religious references to or implications of God are merely part of a political strategy, and not a genuine expressi...

"Taken in"? So China is a magician or something? People are "taken in" by their own greed. If they wouldn't be so greedy, they wouldn't settle for buy...

In a desperate quest for safety and meaning.

It's like aphasia: one opens one's mouth, and nothing comes out.

What do you mean by "accept" here?

And another culinary one: pudding.

But the real question is, Are you getting payed for your antitheism? Does it rake in money for you?

Indeed. No matter how much one might try, one couldn't perceive a square circle, even if there was one.

Yes: the practice of minding one's own business. The majority of people trouble comes from people sticking their nose into things that are none of the...

I wonder about this one too. We'd need someone who is fluent in French. I know Germans tend to associate Brot with hard work and basic necessities (wh...

That depends on what type of text one is trying to machine translate. Poetry, for example, is generally hard to render equivalently into a different l...

This is best illustrated by and explained with examples, but for this, all the participants need to be fluent enough in the languages compared. It's a...

But why boycott a particular country? Why not focus on self-sufficiency? Boycotting a particular country is like running away from danger, but not nec...

Nonsense. One of the most important things to know in life is to know one's place. It's amazing how much trouble one avoids that way. There's just no ...

You seem to be operating under the notion that people who beieve in God have arrived at belief in God or at claims about God via an abstract logical r...

The error is that you invented the argument in the OP. It's not part of any existing theistic religion. There you go. Your say-so doesn't make a state...

A crash course in Buddhism usually quickly results in a crash.

Absolutely. I hope the trend continues for me. I can tell that I don't have as much sheer physical strength as I used to (e.g. I can't lift as much as...

Sure. But I would like to see longitudinal and developmental studies of this phenomenon. It seems to me that when people start out poor and religious,...

Here: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/562253 I mean seriously. How do you explain that some apparently very bad people have it so go...

Processing of old traumas, efforts to gain a pychological distance from religion (via controlled exposure and desensitization).

Irrelevant example, a fictional scenario, because the moral decision depends entirely on the situation being real, factual. It's not possible to make ...

Next to the aforementioned E option, I can think of another one: F) arriving at the belief that if God exist, God is . I believe that if God exists, G...

Yes, he can. To wit: Jesus, the eternal bachelor, to whom so many Catholic nuns are married. Two parallels intersect in infinity ....

It's not my place to think such things, as I am not a member of the elite who decides about such things. Certainly. At least up until some 30 years ag...

This is probably most evident in idioms, as it is often misleading to translate them word-for-word. For example the English idiom bread and butter ('a...

Further example (please add your own): Greek aletheia: the opposite of lethe 'oblivion', where in English, we would say truth, factuality, reality. Fo...

And this is supposed to be a consolation?! A handful of yuppies making a wee bit less money than another bunch of yuppies??!

You need to add E: E) after considering the issue, one finds it impossible to form an opinion (in effect, this is lack of belief; the very act of cons...

Surely that is their own fault, not atheism's. If you're an atheist and you're doing well in life, you've got atheism to thank for that, right? And if...

Sure it can be, esp. when framed as self-confidence and constancy.

It's not simply indoctrination. Like I said elsewhere:

Reference?

Just goes to show that it has no inherent nature.

Duh. Of course. You must bear in mind that theists typically believe that atheists are stupid and that they should be convinced by the proselytizing a...

You're an American, aren't you? If you were raised in Europe, you'd learn early on to distinguish between art and mere craft (and kitsch).

Epic fail at the onset. People who believe in God typically don't do so on the grunds of some philosophical arguments. Instead, they were born and rai...

I expect that what people say should be logical. Silly me. By now, I know better than to point it out to them (heaven forbid pointing out a logical fa...

Provided it's used by the right people, the ones who are in the position to determine whether something is art or not, and whether it's good art or no...

*hrmph* Not at all, not in the ones I'm thinking of. For the older ones, their religiosity probably plays a major part. The younger ones (now in their...

Read again what I said.

So what? They get away with it! And society at large loves them, at least secretly! People admire aggressive drivers, for example. And generally, peop...

People generally believe in the just-world hypothesis, and there is evidence suggesting that such belief correlates positively with mental health. By ...