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popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:22 am

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:36 am Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in.

Religion depends upon the existence of the supernatural,

By definition, is there ANY thing that is so-called 'supernatural'?

If no, then 'religion' OBVIOUSLY does NOT depend upon the existence of the 'supernatural'.

But if yes, then what is that/are they, EXACTLY, which you now claim here is/are 'supernatural'?

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:22 am
how many theological university students realize if there is no such thing as the supernatural their degree is about NOTHING?

How many human beings STILL wonder IF there is such a thing as 'the supernatural' or if there is NO such thing as 'the supernatural'?

To wonder what is, by definition, OBVIOUS, makes "others" wonder HOW and WHY those ones can be SO STUPID.

Also, how many adult human beings STILL wonder if there is no such thing as 'superheroes'?

Furthermore, how many adult human beings realize that 'religion' does NOT depend upon 'that', which does NOT exist and which is NOT even a POSSIBILITY to exist, but depends upon the way they, "themselves", LOOK AT and SEE 'things'?

SEE, one can be just as 'religious' about God NOT existing as one is about God existing.

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:22 am

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:36 am Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in.

Religion depends upon the existence of the supernatural, how many theological university students realize if there is no such thing as the supernatural their degree is about NOTHING?

The word supernatural implies all sorts of things that can lead to paradoxes. Many religions do include beliefs in things that are not accepted now, currently, as real by science. If God exists, say. Then God is natural. Science is still in the middle of working things out.

Do you know that in the 60s if you were a scientist officially believing that animals were experiencers with an internal life was taboo and dangerous for your career.

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Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in.
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Religion depends upon the existence of the supernatural, how many theological university students realize if there is no such thing as the supernatural their degree is about NOTHING?
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Academic Theologins are granted good lives in lieu of their responsibility to truth, for attempting to explain the imaginary in terms of the improbable, impossible, and unfathomable. If this is not counted as an archetype of evil, what could be? And let's not mention the corruption of the youth.

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:09 pm

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:22 am

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:36 am Religion validates from the inside out; Science validates from the outside in.

Religion depends upon the existence of the supernatural, how many theological university students realize if there is no such thing as the supernatural their degree is about NOTHING?

Academic Theologians are granted good lives in lieu of their responsibility to truth, for attempting to explain the imaginary in terms of the improbable, impossible, and unfathomable. If this is not counted as an archetype of evil, what could be? And let's not mention the corruption of the youth.

Advocate,

Agreed, Excellent!!