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  1. Yazata

    Ever notice how atheists are virtually always on the opposite side from God on many issues?

    What makes them "axioms"? That Christopher Langan has pronounced them such? That's just replacing "reality" with "exist" and hence "existence". Doesn't look very informative to me unless you can give some persuasive account of what 'existence' is. (I don't think you can.) Where does your...
  2. Yazata

    Russia impounds Goldman Sachs assets worth 36 million dollars

    I don't think that potentially losing $36 million will bother Goldman Sachs very much. It's just a rounding error to them. They want to impose a single world system on the planet. Banking, finance, governance, trade etc. They call it "democracy" and the "rules based order", but of course they...
  3. Yazata

    Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

    The problem with doing that is that it simply surrenders the board to the lowest common denominator, the abusive loud-mouths and idiots. I couldn't agree more when it comes to poltical discourse. Discussion of religion on RF is actually pretty good in many cases. I find my reaction to many...
  4. Yazata

    Republican candidates?

    It's probably too early to speak of either party having a candidate until the primaries have concluded and the nominating conventions have taken place. That's when candidates are selected and there's a whole process to get through first. There are about a dozen Republicans running for President...
  5. Yazata

    Is it Reasonable to believe God is a cheeseburger?

    Well, if God is good and cheeseburgers are good, then... I suppose that if we are pantheists, then we might say that cheeseburgers participate in or manifest God in some way. I personally think of 'God' in a very metaphysical way, as meaning the ultimate principle of reality, the reason there...
  6. Yazata

    Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

    Jesus was very conservative in one way - everything he said was said in the context of the Jewish culture with which he identified. His sayings are filled with Hebrew scriptural allusions, but he shows very little sign of the Greek/Roman Hellenistic culture that had been hugely influential in...
  7. Yazata

    Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

    Haven't you noticed how many of your Bible quotes in post #15 are directed against judging others? About loving them instead? You started this thread with some intention in mind. So how do you fail to see that your Bible quotations address what's happening right here right now in this thread...
  8. Yazata

    Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

    And naturally you assume that you are the one in a position to "teach", the one in a position to denounce the sins of others. I'm not a Christian, but perhaps Jesus might have told you to be less concerned with other people's sins and more attentive to your own, Luke 18:9-14 9 And he spake...
  9. Yazata

    Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

    This looks like another in a seemingly endless succession of leftist hate-threads directed against political opponents. It's ironic that people who are so convinced (falsely in my opinion) of their own intellectual superiority endlessly preach to their activist choir and make no attempt...
  10. Yazata

    Orbital Mechanics Don't Work

    Isn't that the answer to the problem you posed in your first post? Newton's first law says that a body will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line, unless a force acts upon it. If you release an object from rest and it falls towards the Earth's center of mass along a straight...
  11. Yazata

    ERATOSTHENES DID NOT PROVE THE EARTH IS A GLOBE!

  12. Yazata

    ERATOSTHENES DID NOT PROVE THE EARTH IS A GLOBE!

    I don't think that Biblical firmanent theories are in any way consistent with orbital mechanics or with space flight.
  13. Yazata

    ERATOSTHENES DID NOT PROVE THE EARTH IS A GLOBE!

    Right. He provided evidence that it was. What's more, he calculated the size of the Earth from his data (and a little geometry) and arrived at a figure that isn't all that different from modern calculations of the size of the Earth. Which given his time and place, is very impressive. In my...
  14. Yazata

    Can God make a triangular where the angles add to other than 180 degrees?

    My understanding is that Augustine made an argument much like this regarding miracles. I believe that Augustine opposed the idea that miracles are violations of the laws of nature. Instead, he believed that nature contains lots of obscure legalese, small-print special-application laws spoken...
  15. Yazata

    Can God make a triangular where the angles add to other than 180 degrees?

    I don't think that this one violates God's (supposed) omnipotence. If sin is defined as violation of God's will (probably a controversial definition), then seemingly anything God wills would be in accordance with God's will. So if God wills to do it, it can't be sin by definition. Why not? I'd...
  16. Yazata

    Critical Thinking, Logic, Reason & Empathy. :-)

    I'm an agnostic of a similar age. I've never been a Christian. As to whether I qualify as a theist, probably not, though I do believe that reality is ultimately a giant mystery towards which I sometimes find myself responding in a religious sort of way. I don't think that religion is going to...
  17. Yazata

    Pros, Cons, and Overall Assessment of RF

    The diversity of opinion here. Pretty much any conceivable view has proponents here, often rather intelligent and articulate. Too many political and culture war threads. Well, I'm still reading the board every day and posting regularly. RF isn't my job, it isn't any kind of obligation. I...
  18. Yazata

    How Can Theology Really Study the "Nature of God?" An AI answer.

    I'm inclined to agree. But both of our views seem to implicitly deny the (supposed) truth of religious revelation. (I'll admit that quite openly, I don't believe that any human beings have been granted special privileged access to the secret of the universe.) If on the other hand, one accepts...
  19. Yazata

    Do you prefer Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom for U.S. President?

    I don't think so. I think that the people behind the curtain who are really calling the shots are the deep-state, the CIA, FBI, the DOJ, Pentagon and the State Department. Basically the top management levels of the various government departments who always believe that they know better than the...
  20. Yazata

    Is religion inferior to logic ?

    Which is philosophy, almost by definition. (Philosophy receives a lot of abuse on boards like this.) The obvious problem with starting from first principles is infinite regress: What are the first principles of the first principles and how can first principles be known by human beings? So...
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