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    Who is smarter?

    Wow this is one very old thread and it is enjoying a resurrection. There are many kinds of smart. There is the kind which sees the big picture and what is most salient in it. There is also the kind that can link and use the facts in a limited domain to accomplish familiar tasks. I think...
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    Michelle Obama's DNC speech

    Good point. It seems equivalent to Wolz's ambiguous description of the kinds of guns he wanted to see banned. I have to believe Michele O'Bama was proud of our country when we elected her husband. I would imagine it was in relation to how we all felt when Trump was in office which evoked the...
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    Michelle Obama's DNC speech

    Of course. Because there will always be disagreement and need/wants can clash. But if you have some base line regard for the entire electorate along with fair elections and peaceful transfer of power, we would be much better off.
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    What has happened to Protestantism?

    Oh God yes! The second is drippy and the other creates an atmosphere to contemplate the sacred. Church without all the legalistic harping would be better, though I can't complain. I"ve never been to a church except to throw my old dad a bone by coming with him to his Methodist church. Bunch...
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    Georgia GOP district chair Kandiss Taylor says that non-Christians are not entitled to religious freedom in America

    She has clearly forgotten who she works for.
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    Michelle Obama's DNC speech

    Oh no, I haven't paid a penny. Trump spews them for free to any and all. I just ignore the buffoon.
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    Michelle Obama's DNC speech

    I miss having a respectable Conservative Party in this country for adults with an ounce of patriotism. Took me many years to acquire a taste for conservative values and then Trump came along and broke it.
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    I have a feeling that the afterlife doesn't exist

    I think there is something which spirit means but I don't know what you have in mind when you say there is evidence it exists. I don't think there is any such objective evidence which can't be accounted for without it.
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    So then the question becomes can our emotional intelligence unpack this awe and wonder in a meaningful way. I’d answer yes but not in a very informational way. Deeper rather than broader.
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    Is there any reason to reject the science of evolution, other than religious beliefs?

    No I meant I think it is a mistake to think of people or other animals as machines. To see parts of how our bodies function as mechanistic is riightfully metaphoric. As with most metaphors, to take it literally is absurd. As for how that relates to the thread topic. I think the overly...
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    How tall is RF?

    Formerly a tad under 6 feet but there has been shrinkage over time. Now I just say 5"ll".
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    Thanks again for the interaction on the Is Atheism a Worldview thread. That means more to me...

    Thanks again for the interaction on the Is Atheism a Worldview thread. That means more to me than the likes but thanks for those too. To build on Rachel's question to you in January, is one of those symbols especially meaningful for you?
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    Thanks again for writing such likable and winning posts! I'm intrigued to know more about your...

    Thanks again for writing such likable and winning posts! I'm intrigued to know more about your perspective/background. Do you have anything written anywhere on this site I could read to learn more? Believe me, this interaction with you and @PureX and @IndigoChild5559 has encouraged me much...
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    Sorry but I'm not sure if I understand your point here. Maybe you can tell me as someone not operating from within a particular tradition whether it would be accurate to understand .. .. "theist" as one who places the highest authority in a received system of belief such as the Bible?; and ...
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    It certainly is simplistic and wrong as well. Both the idea that science will eventually lay bare all truth and the idea that religions just is a holdover of a time when we knew less are simply wishful thinking on the part of those who have an urgent reason to want to reject religion without...
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    Completely agree and I find this equally true of determining what God/gods refers to. You can't just ask anybody who says they believe and have the answer.
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    Thank you very much. Indeed I rarely read an entire thread before posting. I rely quite a bit on intuition. I do think his distinctions are useful and mostly accurate. Does he agree that atheism isn't the cause of a changing dominant modern perspective but rather one effect of a wider...
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    I agree. I think the tendency to view ourselves as animated matter and sometimes even lacking in free will is common to many modern people as is the strong reliance on science and reason to the exclusion of imagination and intuition where the humanities have so much to offer. I spend sometime...
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    Indeed. I needed to have made it clear I was describing the characteristics of many atheists I've interacted with online. I doubt there is very much one can say that would fit all atheists except, as you say, to assert lack of belief in whatever God/gods may refer to. But with that fixed what...
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    Is Atheism (et al) a Worldview?

    I probably should have been clearer. These are not characteristics of all atheists, just most characteristic of those I’ve interacted with online as well as of myself when I considered myself a de facto atheist.
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