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Personalising God: A Convenient Danger Most of the time, discourse and debates about God are pointless. Both sides, whether staunchly theist or atheist, are simply arguing about a concept. Throughout the ages, the most enduring concept of God is of some kind of all-powerful super-being. He is usual...

You like 'em older, do you? And longtime deceased? :wink: It's her mind that I've fallen for, and she ain't been dead anywhere near as long as Jesus. 8) I'll follow your recommendation. I see her latest was 1980. The Sweet Dove Died Here is the poem by Keats that the title quotes; I had a dove and ...

In fact, a brain would be a serious impediment to a thread such as this. :) Alternatively you might focus on the interesting topic. It's not that interesting. You might as well ask why Ganesh is in the image of an elephant Yes. But a lot of people don't know that it's actually an anthropological qu...

Thanks Harbal.

I'd better edit what I wrote there: I may be demoted from that status at any point.

Who is giving this "credit" of which you speak? What is the "crediting" agent, or the rational basis for asserting that morality gets "credit"? A society who's members did not conduct themselves according to any moral guidlines would not function very well, if at all. ...

Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 9:41 am

Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 9:29 am
This is a no brainer

In fact, a brain would be a serious impediment to a thread such as this.

Alternatively you might focus on the interesting topic.

Henry, if you live an isolated life in a nice country area with your own clean water source and your knowledge of bush craft you are relatively safe not to infect others with any diseases you may have. Otherwise all public health regulations are there to protect yourself and others. Most people liv...

Democracy is supposed to be the authority of the people What that means in practice is we get to choose who tells us what to do. No religious or political regime should be for the benefit of a religious, political, or wealthy elite but for all the people. Religious and political movements often sta...

I have no idea what any of this Henry-Dubious stuff is about. Ain't nuthin': dub is one of those a'fear'd of the (nonexistent) ☠️ Coronapocalypse ☠️. He's all for masks and lockdowns and jabs. And he'd boxcar those (like me) who reject masks, lockdowns, and jabs off to starve (or be starved) in the...

Iwannaplato wrote: If you can't prove to me X exists then you are irrational to beleive in X. is an often underlying pattern in interactions here. And it's ridiculous. I think you can study the ideas of philosophers or you can decide which ideas you agree with and perhaps even use the ideas to help...

We might think there must be an objective reality, but I don't see how we can ever fully know what it is. And even if it were possible to discover what it is, we will never be able to experience it. Scientific instruments can tell us that there are all sorts of things going on that we were hitherto...

Polytheists have plenty of female gods. The first monogod was ancient Egyptian and was a male because ancient Egypt was largely a patriarchal society.

Obedience matters for people who are devoted to an authoritarian religion, just as obedience matters for people who are devoted, whether they like it or not, to an authoritarian state. When Authority matters greatly to a modern society, if religion proper is not authoritarian, then some other myth ...

Iwannaplato wrote: If you can't prove to me X exists then you are irrational to beleive in X. is an often underlying pattern in interactions here. And it's ridiculous. I think you can study the ideas of philosophers or you can decide which ideas you agree with and perhaps even use the ideas to help ...

In order to resolve moral conflict by believing in God, one requires that God is Omniscient and knows moral facts which mean that morality is objective and any intelligent being can know it. We however know that there is no moral fact. Then how believing in God can resolve moral conflict? I suppose...