Nightline Face-Off: "Does God Have a Future?"
Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston face-off against Michael Shermer and Sam Harris on this question: Link.
Just on the gay/bi/lesbian issue, the whole "we respect and love gay people, but not insofar as their gayness goes, since that is an objective moral disorder ..." hopelessly...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 7 hours ago
In economics there's a concept of a "positional good." That's a good that obtains its value by being better than the competition. In contrast, an absolute good would have its...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 7 hours ago
Well, Trumpers have made that a very low bar, but you clear it with room to spare.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 7 hours ago
Thank you for your service. However, for each one of you there seem to be almost two who weren't much bothered by Trump's contempt for vets. Thus saith the AI:*
Approximately...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 7 hours ago
I have to edit practically all my comments. My Dell laptop is only two years old and I paid extra for some features, but the keyboard letters all flaked off just after the warranty period, and my...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 8 hours ago
I'll take what I can get in today's world.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
Small consolation, isn't it ? Sigh !...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
"...anyone can buy "fake weights" (just search on the term). They look like standard barbell bars and weight plates but are very light."
Reminds me of a...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
Thank you for thinking of me as an intelligent person. lol
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
Unfortunately, I don't think Trump is capable of experiencing shame. He will only react with anger toward those who criticize him for anything.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
This veteran didn't vote for him. As a Vietnam veteran, I have nothing but contempt for people like Trump who supported the war, yet ran like rabbits rather than serve.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
The church's stance on birth control does not elevate the status of life . . . it trivializes it.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 11 hours ago
Yes, and I would go one further: the Catholic Church irrationally believes it can rationalize human sexuality which itself is inherently irrational. Sexuality evolved. One only has to look at sex...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 12 hours ago
Trump also got pelted by veterans when he mocked their sacrifices. But when push came to shove in the election booth, the whiners voted for him anyway. I suspect the media create a misperception by...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 12 hours ago
And then they stick the Pope in his chair to make it infallible. The Catholic struggle to reduce morality to a fixed set of rules reminds me of what led to decades of "AI winters". Ever...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 12 hours ago
As far as I can see, Paul VI's "indissoluble nexus" language is tricky.
Of course. Talking out both sides of their mouth at the same time, is the essence of...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 12 hours ago
Catholic doctrine is so sure about so many things, it's strange that they plead ignorance about what God is doing to the all those embryonic or fetal souls.
Another...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 12 hours ago
Blaine started out as a street performer with close-up magic. His YouTube videos show him dazzling people he meets on the streets. He performs his tricks at about the same distance that two people...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
Well, welcome to Catholic philosophy. They'll claim they ride along on Aristotle "plus" until they need some piece from revelation, and then they stick that into the mix and make...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
"Pope Paul VI clarified in Humanae Vitae, following natural and divine law, sex is ordered to two purposes: the procreation of children, and the unity of husband and wife. These two ends of...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
Watching some reports on it, he is getting well pelted for it. Much from his own lot.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
The RCC thought police. IMPURE THOUGHTS and MOROSE DELECTATION Sexually arousing thoughts that a person may not deliberately entertain because they lead to the sinful desire to...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
Since around half of fertilizations naturally result in failures to implant or later in natural miscarriages, God has for millennia been processing the steady stream of fetal souls who arrive at...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
Of course, Catholics have had centuries in which to cook up flimsy excuses for their special pleading. And for many of those centuries they could burn people who asked too many questions.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
1) For centuries both East and West have held to "against nature, according to nature, and above nature." Consecrated celibates are considered to have a reproductive faculty...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago