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 · 1 hour 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 · 1 hour 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 · 2 hours ago
Blasphemer!
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 hours ago
Imagine for example that the bible were not a book of lies, and Christians really could move mountains with their mustard seed faith, just as Gospel Jesus claims they can. Then I think it would be...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 4 hours ago
Third, the cartoons were deliberately insulting caricatures.
Insults only work if they are true. For example, you can't insult Bill Gates by calling him poor. That...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 4 hours ago
After a couple of years of seeing this pattern replicated, a lot of us kept doing the job but had no feelings when people didn't survive.
The pandemic produced a more...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
What healthcare professionals encountered in some communities was an intransigent stupidity, hence TFSTL. Public health became the enemy. Anthony Fauci belonged in front of a firing squad...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
... pre-pandemic I assumed the vast majority understood obvious stuff.
That's the classic psychologist's fallacy, which I've fallen for myself countless...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 8 hours ago
In addition to just regular theft.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 11 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 · 11 hours ago
HA HA HA HA!!!
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 12 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 · 14 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 · 14 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 · 14 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 · 14 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 · 14 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 · 15 hours ago
BTW, some sorta relevant posts on Substack: https://robertconner.substack.com/
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 15 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 · 15 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 · 15 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?" · 17 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?" · 17 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?" · 17 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?" · 17 hours ago