I often find myself a bit tongue-tied at the start of a conversation about religious belief - after I get warmed up it's easy, especially in response to opinions of others, but I still haven't quite decided on what the most important issue is.
There are so many separate issues:
-The coherence...
Great article - still can't understand how members of the Christian Taliban manage to get elected to anything in the US in this day and age. What is this American infatuation with ancient Middle Eastern drivel? Why aren't they laughed off the stage?
I bet you'd be opposed to the mandating of 'divine laws' from other religions, right? And since not everyone will agree on which religion the nation's laws should come from, the only answer is secularism - where we devise our own laws together. The killing of disobedient children will have to...
Kender, why do you believe in god at all? And especially Adam and Eve etc - if you're scientifically minded, why don't you just do the obvious thing and treat the Christian myth in the same way as Greek myth? You sound a bit like someone who is rightly confused by Christianity but can't bring...
Sleep paralysis is just there to stop you acting out your dreams; obviously it should disappear when you wake, so if it regularly doesn't you should consult a doctor.
As for the rest - Einstein did not prove there was a god in his theories, and no you can't have a 'self' without a physical...