Bayes's Theorem and the Outsider Test for Faith
Dr. James A. Lindsay clarifies the OTF using Bayes's Theorem. This is his first post on it. His second post offers a a bit more clarity.
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In addition to just regular theft.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 hours ago
AI (or is it A1?) wasn't available at the time. Here I naïvely thought that everyone understands carrying capacity. But in my defense, pre-pandemic I assumed the vast majority...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 hours ago
HA HA HA HA!!!
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 3 hours ago
It hadn't occurred to me until now that all of God's self-appointed spokesmen commit a kind of identity theft.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
There might be a fallacy of composition* at play some times. For example, a Prosperity Gospel preacher might claim - correctly - that the Prosperity Gospel is working great for him. Just as any...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
One has to be sensitive and diplomatic when speaking about hot-button issues such as anything involving babies. Most people prefer to live in the erstwhile Pope's fantasy world, where the...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
I'm sorta looking at some of those issues in a series of posts: https://robertconner.substack.com/
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
Based on what I've read, Elmo and his team are about to release Yahweh's True Name, Social Security number and passwords.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
I know of no instance where humanity ever bettered itself by abandoning reason for magical thinking. When people commit themselves to a particular brand of magical thinking they will attempt to...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
BTW, some sorta relevant posts on Substack: https://robertconner.substack.com/
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
I called it "weaponized childbirth" several years ago and got a horrified reaction on some other site. Homicidal Arabs + homicidal Jews = homicide but that fairly simple equation shocks a...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
It's similar to the way that Muslims feel "harmed" by someone somewhere drawing a cartoon of their prophet.
Those cartoons hit Muslim believers in a triple...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 6 hours ago
The church and I went our separate ways nearly sixty years ago. I never regretted that decision. I see some of the people I grew up with still buying into all that magical thinking and I can only...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 7 hours ago
I guess we'll see if the Swiss Guards can perform better than the Capitol Police when "Stop the Steal" comes to the Holy See.
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
I think it was Stalin who, upon being asked if he was concerned about the Pope, asked "How many divisions does he have?" Perhaps the Pope's first big chance to make himself felt by...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
At least they say he is no fan of Trump.
That might require a generous definition of "no fan." On Bill Maher's show they said the new Pope voted Republican....
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
But I suspect it may often be the case that theists simply lack the capacity to understand many atheist arguments.
One large mental block for some people of faith seems to...
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True. I don't know what the opinion piece writer thinks about Hamas and their ilk.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
The Emperor's New Clothes (Wikipedia link) - a tale as old as human societies themselves. To be part of a tribe...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
It's similar to the way that Muslims feel "harmed" by someone somewhere drawing a cartoon of their prophet. Magical thinking makes people do stupid things out of stupid fears....
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
Also absent is the fact that Palestinian elites have boasted openly, on the record, of their deliberate strategy to weaponize fertility. They seek to offset Israel's technological advantage by...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
Every religion (and commercial advertising agency) is adept at presenting one-sided, whitewashed versions of itself or its product(s). Even the worst things, if they are sufficiently complex, may...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
Absent in that discourse is the fact that Palestinians teach their children, as soon as they are born, to hate the Jews - even killing them is all right. As Golda Meir once said: Peace will come...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 10 hours ago
I just went to the linked website, and then I closed that window on my computer. Does that mean that by closing that window, I treated the Name as presented on that page with disrespect? I mean,...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 10 hours ago
OT: I don't endorse Islam any more than I do Christianity, but I post this article here because I think the writer tries to capture some of the things that many people find attractive in...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 10 hours ago