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The activity is continually thinking or vocalizing “I believe there is no God”? :snicker: That is a very good reason to not believe because it inhibit...

Clearly the need being fulfilled is not salvation so religion must be fulfilling other needs.

Deliverance from sin and its consequences. I think the consequences of sin is basically suffering and that’s not unique to any tradition.

Imagine multiple traditions existing for thousands of years all dedicated to the goal of *salvation* but when asked whether they’ve succeeded the answ...

I’ll ask you the same question that I asked the thread starter (and they ignored). Do you know of anyone who religion has provided deliverance from si...

Yesterday Biden admin waives federal laws to allow border wall construction in Texas. It would be hilarious if the Biden admin built 53 miles of new w...

It seems to me that the basic problem that WCS was trying to address is that most people, including both secular folks and people with a dynamic diale...

You have trouble recognizing religion? If so, that may be because you want to label something a religion that isn’t a religion, like secularism. Am I ...

You must be feeling lucky today. Do you have a chess.com account?

It's not me it's Midjourneee. :cool: I wonder if Apple will be upset, btw, that it uses their logo. Or maybe they have a placement deal.

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Trump's criticisms of a Gold-Star Muslim family on national television is news to me and it is utterly disgusting. Obama being presidential at that ti...

Trump hired him, and he was Trump's longest-serving chief of staff, so I assume that John Kelly is a slime-ball too. It's characteristic of a slime-ba...

You seem to be confusing the reports.

Well, uh... he in fact did... And again, just out of curiosity, in what context is calling Americans who died in war "Losers" and "Suckers" okey dokey...

Yesterday John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Trump confirmed that it's true. Just out of curiosity, in what context is cal...

They do, according to old Darwinian ideas. The theory of constructed emotion is a theory in affective science proposed by Lisa Feldman Barrett to expl...

Fundamentalists and both Dawkins and Dennett can't grasp romanticism? If you say so. I wonder how they would explain the emotions that motivate killer...

I think it's an interesting point. Can religion explain the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet?

Laughably, he did in the quote that you picked.

Another lie. Of course it's disputable. For example, Dawkins doesn't refuse to consider other forms of knowledge, such as philosophical, ethical, or e...

Thanks. I was sort of hoping to inspire some syconia envy in Jamal, if I'm honest.

His point was that Richard Dawkins and others believe in scientism. An accusation that is often used to discredit atheists and falaciously invalidate ...

:lol: Speaking of... But thanks for agreeing that Wayfarer was exaggerating the truth, if only by 1.43%. Exaggeration is a misrepresentation. Why exag...

If a paraphrase is deliberately biased or used to misrepresent the original content to serve a specific agenda, it is considered unethical and mislead...

I did a page search for "science disproves God" and nope, it's not in any of those quotes. There are no examples of him saying what you claim he says,...

Our tree is still raining figs. Made a fig and goat cheese pizza with some light pesto made with purple basil from the garden. Sweet/savory deliciousn...

Except for the quote that addresses my complaint. To quote myself (which includes me quoting Dawkins): Do you believe that Wayfarer was merely paraphr...

I think that I should first back up a bit and point out that atheists such as Harris don't go after fundamentalists because they're easy targets. From...

You should be honest when bringing him up. It’s probably a good idea for the moderators of a philosophy forum to be intellectually honest.

It’s the characterization of ‘weakness’ that I don’t follow. How does fundamentalism in religious belief lack power or strength compared to religious ...

None of the characters were particularly interesting, or novel anyway, if you’re familiar with Murakami’s work. They’re very similar to characters in ...

Personally, I don’t appreciate lies whatever camp they come from. Not sure what you mean by fundamentalism being weakest form of theism. Not important...

Oh?

I appreciate your honesty, not that it was a big ask. I don't appreciate the claim that some atheists are as bad as religious fundamentalists and then...

Far too risqué for the pearl clutching AI's.

Do you believe those two statements are synonymous?

We recently chatted in Clark's AI art topic and he seemed fine to me, but then I swim in the low-quality end of the pool myself. Good thing I'm not a ...

Actually, I understand that a lot of the NFT crap was AI generated. It helped to provide a new plaything for the rich and contributed to a big waste o...

I said it was interesting. I didn't say it was better or that I even liked it. It's mildly interesting in how it kind of lost the plot and confused th...

I looked up the expression 'get past my eyeballs' and apparently it has something to do with vitreous detachment and floaters. I didn't know AI had th...

Science undermines religion and the belief in God. Science disproves God. Do you guys actually think these two claims are the same? It's easy to intui...

The only thinking I’m good at is not thinking.

New atheists like Dawkins claim there is evidence, like natural selection, that explains phenomena that were previously undertaken by religion, yes. I...

Some claim that Dawkins and crew believe that science disproves God but when you try to find them saying some such it’s not easy to find. What do they...

The theological definition of salvation is the deliverance from sin and its consequences. Have you been delivered from sin and its consequences? If no...

One of the first jobs I had was working in a painting factory that would mass-produce crap for hotels and the like. It was piecework, doing batches of...

Seeing beauty in what's normally regarded as ugly via aesthetic experience can be rather depatterning, if you asked me. Anyway, it's not like revoluti...

What is religion's goal?

I agree, and like I said it's not enough. I'm wondering what it would be like if it were enough. If it were maybe there would be no need for AI art.