yes you do. and you use a separate secular standart to do it. the things he said that have been adopted as part of modern morality (golden rule...
this is just you (and others who say this) picking and choosing. it's the same god in the OT and the NT. your argument is that it's atheism that is...
yes, Jesus was at times an insightful secular moral philosopher. it's intellectually dishonest to focus on "love the neighbor" and ignore god...
I mentioned the ten commandments because it's considered a cornerstone, and I said effectively endorses slavery by which I meant mentions it multiple...
I just think Dr. King, like you are doing now, did not logically think through where what he calls "wisdom" (knowledge of what is and isn't moral and...
it's more like you should open the bible and see what's in there. obviously neither book is going to match up well with modern notions of morality....
I gave at least 4 points of evidence that contradict your claim that there's a strong correlation - low crime rate in non-religious European...
Hu? Quite the opposite. I was saying I DON'T get the OP question & was just following along with the discussion.
entirely ambiguous as far as science is concerned. "our creator" could be absolutely anything. science IS making deductions about probability based...
the OP sounds more like he's asking what people think about the benefits of religion as a social club. he said nothing at all about belief. he could...
that is only true if you intentionally leave your definition of god so vague or generic enough as to be inaccessible to observation. on the other...
The OP question was a little incoherent and I think the derailment is part of answering the question. I was raised fundamentalist Christian,...
completely missed the point. you're saying god is constrained by the laws of physics. the universe "needed" to be a certain way to create our...
theism is not religion, and you missed my point about compartmentalization. I'm talking about methodology. all I was saying is claiming knowledge...
Somehow I don't see you going Amish any time soon. You mean it potentially could if it was designed. Yet almost all of it doesn't. That's my point.
It would be a breeze to make the genetic code exponentially more efficient, not to mention more stable and safer for life. what god supposedly...
Are you disputing that religion and science represent different incompatible approaches to knowledge? I would think that's pretty much true by...
Nothing personal but I'm gonna call you on this anti-intellectual line of reasoning every time I see you post it. The problem you are describing is...
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