Not sad. Unfortuntely, becuse I wish I could have claimed that for myself, Without the need to quote.
it is the quintessential reason for not believing in God. Or Mother Goose. Or Jesus. Or the great Juju. Or Bigfoot. And so on.
For the simple reson that all those beings have the exact same...
Nope. it would be like killing a fly with a nuclear device. It is actually very simple.
i don’t believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose (C. Darrow).
Since they have the same exact evidence, and it is sort of silly for me to believe the latter, it follows that it would be...
Is there a prophecy in the Bible about crypto-currencies? Wow. If yes, you won a new convert. Something showing more knowledge than the expected knowledge about goats and stuff, available at that time. But where is it?
can you show me the prophecy concerning crypto-currencies? What verse is...
That is exactly why most people believe in the afterlife. A sort of extension of our natural instinct of conservation.
I have been non existent for billions of years in the past, and I didn’t feel any inconvenience (M. Twain).
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- viole
I wpuld choose “other”. Religion exists because our brains have naturalistic evolved traits that favors the belief in conscious agencies, even when there is no conscious agency involved. Therefore, beliefs in gods are a by-product of our evolutionary past.
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- viole
What is dangerous about those? Apart from being dangerous for irrational and archaic superstitions, I am not sure what you mean.
For instance, don't you believe you are yourself the product of evolution by natural selection?
If not, why not?
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- viole
Jesus actually taught to abandon them. Tough love, probably. Probably another mystery of the faith :)
Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal...
Good to know we don't belong to the same species.
let me ask you this. What other species you would consider closest to you?
For example, do you agree to be a mammal?
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- viole
Why not? It does not take a genius to realize we look like the other great apes. i.e. we are in the image of the other great apes. So, the conclusion follows from the transitivity of the relationship "being in the image of".
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- vio,le
Well, the pope also put guns and condoms at the same level. Which speaks volume of his moral bankruptcy, and the moral bankrupcy of the Roman Catholic Church. As if they were any doubts left.
As they say, when a pope dies, they make another one. And they are all the same.
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- viole
Purgatory is, for all practical purposes, equivalent to Heaven. The time you need to spend there, before promotion, is zero compared with the time you will spend in Heaven, and it is therefore vanishing irrelevant.
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- viole
Well, since there is a big group of believers in the same exact prophecy, who do not agree that Jesus fulfilled it, or that it has been fulfilled at all yet, I wonder how you can sell that proposition to skeptics, when there is not even agreement among believers in the same God, and Scripture's...
Since sin is applicable only to Christian and co. theology, and it is meaningless otherwise, it can only be answered assuming it true. Ergo, my first sin is to have eaten a forbidden apple in Eden.
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- viole