It would strengthen your ideas if you could provide some evidence or citations for your claims. I tend to agree that morality works through intersubje...
No real view on whether this is art, but to me it looks like the kind of kitsch, heavily derivative, CGI fantasy design you might find in a Marvel mov...
Didn't someone do this exact question a few months ago? While the Jesus character in the books may have been slightly based on someone who lived (alth...
I'm not really able to follow so much text going in so many directions. Would you be able to state an argument either in a syllogism or in a few dot p...
Equivocation fallacy - Wiki: In logic, equivocation is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word/expression in multiple senses w...
For me the biggest problem is that Marin's taste in music seems banal and her partying appears somewhat hygienic. I wish she were really going to town...
So firstly - not all people experience anxiety and dread. I don't. I see no reason to fear or dread or fester over anything much. To steal from Hamlet...
That's actually hard to justify if you consider it. Christians have no objective basis for morality. What they have is subjective or personal preferen...
I'm not really sure what inner awareness is meant to refer to and how it matters. Perhaps it's something along the lines of insight or Jungian individ...
Sure. But just because a subject shares something with others doesn't mean this shared characteristic is not a defining feature. There are many ways t...
I know this is a common view and one I have held but I think this is problematic and perhaps lacking in utility. I would say something like 'the good'...
Have you read Richard Rorty's book -Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity 1989? From Wiki - For Rorty an ironist is someone who fulfils three conditions:...
Yes, order is an obvious attribute of traditional theism. No argument there. But we wouldn't be good skeptics if we didn't try to unpack that notion. ...
Start a thread on this if you like. I suspect it will come down to whether one is susceptible to those arguments. I appreciate there's more premium th...
I think Robert De Niro (who memorably played LaMotta) could also do it. How else could he have taken being in movies like, Dirty Grandpa and Meet the ...
It means nothing in itself - just whether you accept a story or not. The problem is not in the belief, but where the belief may take people. Eg, where...
Notions of order and chaos are human constructions and likely based on the neurocognitive system. Order, like time and space, are probably a neurally ...
The Jews and Christians I know do not hold Bible stories as literally true so these questions don't concern them. The Bible has a long tradition of be...
My father used to have teeth pulled and fillings installed without anesthetics. He was able to switch off his pain receptors somehow and just lie back...
Mainly Protestant evangelicals. And you're right - Christians have no objective basis for morality. All they have is the subjective preferences of thi...
Situational ethics makes some such consideration. But really ethics is open to any number of models we wish to create. It's not as is if there's a god...
If he did (pre disagreement with Wagner about Christianity) it would be in this mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3rjWFhohM Pretty sure he would...
Of course. Beyond good and evil is the post-modern project in a nutshell. But is there anything to any subject beyond our use of language and abstract...
In that use of 'good' perhaps only if people are to be viewed as tools. For instance, when assessed by a military dictator, a person might be rated as...
Could be true. I have lived without AC or heating for most of my life and don't use it now. It's 90 to 113 down here in summer. A fan is enough. Never...
As you suggest, most people put on a professional face at work. That's probably going to be the case whether you are a psychiatrist or a real estate a...
Decades of neoliberalism have poisoned minds into thinking individualism is the only truth. We all live on one world and we share it, so it seems clea...
It really helps if you believe in god already to make the most of any fine tuning argument. But a big problem with the argument is that even if you ac...
I think you've explained it pretty well. Alvin Plantinga would be proud of you. You've famed a formation argument for reformed epistemology in an acce...
Ha! He's certainly a sacred cow. I like him best as a de-contextualized purveyor of intermittently amusing zingers. I cannot believe in a God who want...
I don't think it is possible to not be yourself. When we say someone is looking for their 'true self' there seems to be an underlying assumption that ...
Down here we have industrial regulation which mostly protects workers from unfair dismissal. It's not considered lawful to fire a worker for an honest...
My take is different, as I have already expressed. I would argue that suffering did not play the central role in evangelical enthusiasms, they were la...
Not always. I've met many Christians who do not think Christ was identical to God. Some do not believe the Gospels to be accurate accounts. But more i...
Does anyone use such language these days outside of archaic religiosity or fanatical devotion to a cause? People talk about pursuing meaningful activi...
Ok. Sure, I think then the argument about 'greater good' is the issue here primarily. I think the WMD argument was unconvincing to most people as mill...
I think you've done a better job in articulating your ideas. Not sure I can see this as much of a risk. I don't see a significant relationship with su...
I prefer Joel to Derrida, but really of the Jewish philosophers, I prefer Marx (that's Groucho not Karl): “While money can't buy happiness, it certain...
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