Question for Discussion, What Evidence is There for Christianity?
Have at it in the comments below.
Both sides are using demographic growth as a strategic tool. They differ in their objectives: Palestinians as a means to destroy the Israeli state; Israeli as means to recover "biblical"...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
Civil judgments he'll never pay because TexAss, ditto Fraudida. In short, no penalty worth mentioning, hence no deterrent. What I would do to Jones, given the chance, would be too hideous to...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
Was it something I said? :)
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
Thanks. That's the nicest thing anyone's said all day.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
Why are the song lyrics, "Might as well face it, you're addicted to love" coursing through my brain as "Might as well face it, you're too stupid to live"?
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
@josephpalazzo:disqus and Daniel: Do you think that the "war of the wombs" idea exploited by Hamas et al. is qualitatively different from the practice of Israeli settlers' on the...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
What Haidt writes sounds well and good and like something you could maybe empathize with:
“We are not moral philosophers,” he writes, “we are moral lawyers, using whatever arguments we...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 hours ago
I might add that the legal system sometimes addresses some problems. Alex Jones for example faced extremely heavy civil judgements* for the destructive lies he told. In theory, COVID disinformers...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 hours ago
Haidt is great, but his inclusive language annoys me. He refers to people as if we are all alike, when the very nature of his book throws up a high cognitive barrier. The people who are capable of...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 3 hours ago
The vaccine was free. And safe. All a person had to do was show up and roll up a sleeve to get a 90%+ chance of surviving the infection.
I assume that by "a...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 3 hours ago
That was Arafat's "war of the wombs." The Palestinian leadership has always had such low regard of its own citizens, hence treating them as canon fodder, encouraging them to perform...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 3 hours ago
Which reminds me of how odd it is that many American Christians fear a divine hissy fit after a gay pride parade, but they don't seem worried at all about the fact that God has yet to smite...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 3 hours ago
Your slippery-slope scenario seems right in line to me with the Catholic Inquisition burning people for questioning geocentrism. Catholic elites treated heliocentrism as an existential threat to...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 3 hours ago
Please continue to do so, as you keep us well entertained in the best ways.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 4 hours ago
LMAO
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
There have always been incels.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
That and the the fact they are terrified god might notice and respond to the insult and destroy a country or two in a hissy fit
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
The vaccine was free. And safe. All a person had to do was show up and roll up a sleeve to get a 90%+ chance of surviving the infection. And yet a subset, mostly religious subset, actively...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
What you are saying above is the reason people who claim to be following the same religion, same god, will kill each other for trivial religious pretexts. When there is a real-life problem...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 8 hours ago
A better analogy than asking someone in the US who they voted for or what their salary is : imagine a total stranger you are talking to in a casual and friendly setting asks you your name. You...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 8 hours ago
"The real engine here isn’t doctrine—it’s identity. As Social Scientist Jonathan Haidt explains, “Moral reasoning is not a means for discovering moral truth, but rather a means for justifying...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
They would just toss a few mountains around to show they still have it.
Haha, reminiscent of the story of Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus. But poor Polyphemus threw a...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 11 hours ago
Maybe it's like autocracies where insulting the Great Leader is a crime. The followers of GL realize that if the GL can be insulted with impunity, then the autocratic system can be questioned...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 11 hours ago
There will always be individuals who will see themselves as prospering through the abandonment of reason. Religious leaders in particular. I was speaking in broader terms of entire societies. Just...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 11 hours ago
Blasphemer!
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 12 hours ago