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Nah. Much earlier than the teapot. It's one he wrote in 1903 which "depend(s)," he wrote in 1929, "upon a metaphysic which is more platonic than that which I now believe in."

Bertrand Russell was an intellectually honest atheist, which makes him a very rare kind of atheist. In what sense was Russell intellectually more honest than, say, me? I've seen atheists praise the essay and theists remark how depressing it is. Obviously, I fall into the latter group. You mean you ...

Your world is tiny, indeed. You believe that the continuance of what your know to be your reality is certain, but this ‘knowing’ precludes further investigation and interaction with variable conditions. I have said many times that the only thing I know for certain is that there are phenomena. The u...

Uwot wrote: ”You think so? Exactly what am I blindly denying? If you can put forward a simple proposition of what it is you think I have no good reason to deny, I will give you at least one good reason why I deny it. Are you open to the possibility that a supernatural part of your psyche has not ye...

Nick_A wrote:Reflex, thanks for the link to Bertrand Russell's A Free Man's Religion and also the concluding paragraph.

Don't thank him Nick_A, if he teaches you much more, you'll turn into an imbecile. Isn't that right, Reflex?

The question is how God is simultaneously one and three. Uwot posts this and says he doesn’t believe it. Well I don’t believe what you wrote either. All you are doing is ridiculing your conceptions of Christianity while avoiding the question. I'll say it again: Duh! Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The ...

Reflex wrote:It means it serves roughly the same purpose as a koan, you blithering halfwit.

Don't be silly. The trinity is meant to be literally true.

Uwot wrote: Who told you that? It is a perfectly simple idea to grasp; the difficulty comes with trying to believe it. If it is so easy, tell me how God is simultaneously one and three. Duh! Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The creator. The material. The animating force. It is piss easy, unless you actu...

If abortion is wrong, then surely making a woman carry and give birth is wrong too? The wonderful news is that some religions insist that it is wrong to take effective measures to prevent pregnancy in the first place and that is an objective fact, because god says so. Love the picture by the way. Y...

The Holy Trinity is a difficult idea to grasp. Who told you that? It is a perfectly simple idea to grasp; the difficulty comes with trying to believe it. So a person has to decide if they want to be an intellectual skeptic or an emotional blind denier since both exist. Is this an intellectual, or e...

Reflex wrote:You have allowed yourself to be educated into imbecility...

I see. So presumably you took your education to a specific point and have refused to learn anything since, for fear of becoming an imbecile, and that is what makes you so smart?

Uwot is not nearly as informed as he (?) Pretends to be. As it happens, I am writing a 10 000 word dissertation on precisely this topic as part of my MSc in history and philosophy of science at UCL, by some measures, the fourth most influential university on the planet. The only US university to be...

artisticsolution wrote:Eloquently put, uwot.

Thank you.

Reflex wrote:What else would expect with one God and many diverse perceives of the one God?

A bit of respect.

lThat a concept predated a particular belief system, does not invalidate the truth of that system, nor does it invalidate the inclusion of that concept into a particular belief system. That some celebrations existed as pagan events, does not invalidate them as Christian celebrations. Indeed. I don'...