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  1. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    I hate to be a pedant, well maybe not but here it comes anyway...:cool: I agree that those texts may contain some moral claims that might have a broad consensus, though I'd be dubious without sufficient objective evidence. I don't believe Jesus said those things though, as there is naught but...
  2. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    That's just a repletion of the claim, not an explanation of, or evidence or that claim. Do you fear and love the giant invisible dragon? You should as it maintains your existence. Now can you point out any objective difference between my claim and yours?
  3. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    The Indian living god, the paedophilia claims "For decades male former devotees have alleged that the guru molested them during so-called "interviews"." "participants in a BBC programme, The Secret Swami, two years ago, accuse him of abuse, claiming he massaged their testi***s with oil and...
  4. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    I can empathise, I have live most of my adult life with chronic back pain, so I know what you mean. Most people don't understand how relentlessly exhausting it is to be in constant pain.
  5. Sheldon

    Everyone who loves is born of God

    What utter tosh.
  6. Sheldon

    Everyone who loves is born of God

    Well 1 is just a false equivalence, love is word we use to describe a range of different emotions, the god is superfluous at best. 2 is demonstrably untrue, as I love and have loved, and I don't "know god". Nor of course am I alone in that.
  7. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    Well the question of course assumes there is an overarching reason. Why are all the other great apes here? Is that an ultimate question?
  8. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    Ok, well that's one mystery solved anyway. So ultimate question are just appeals to mystery with inherent assumptions built in. The title seems a little grandiose tbh.
  9. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    I just think it's an entirely arbitrary and subjective phrase, so it would need to be accurately defined. Some people seem to believe overarching questions about our existence are more significant than say "What shall I have for lunch"? Then when asked why they believe this, no cogent answers...
  10. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    Same thing occurred to me tbh?
  11. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    Ultimate question? I know what both words mean, but don't know what they mean together?
  12. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    A basic requirement of the methods of science now is that all ideas are falsifiable. Science recognises unfalsifiable ideas, whilst easy to create are of little epistemological value, so they are rejected as unscientific. It's ironic, or at least it seems so to me anyway, that so many theists...
  13. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    Is more likely to in groups, in fact. I remember research where the researchers asked groups of people to answer relatively easy questions, and record the results. However in each group only 1 person was being tested, the rest were plants, who deliberately gave incorrect answers. In every test...
  14. Sheldon

    War: the Pope says that mankind is in danger; strive for peace

    It might help if he understood evolution, or how to spell it, though I suspect that hilarious error isn't his? ;) Odd given the RCC wouldn't exist without the wars waged by the papacy or on their behalves? By not listening to religious absolutists wearing frocks, and living in their on...
  15. Sheldon

    Is god evil

    No I don't, why would you assume that?
  16. Sheldon

    Is god evil

    Obviously not, else there wouldn't be so many. You have no idea how life emerged, or from what circumstance. So it's bizarre you don't see how ludicrous it is to make sweeping claims like that.
  17. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    Well of course, since a anything can be believed using entirely subjective methods like faith, literally anything. The more objective evidence we demand the harder it becomes to demonstrate the validity of any claim. If anyone is desperate to believe something, then of course they set the bar...
  18. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    You keep making the same error over and over again, all human experiences must have an element of subjectivity, but all claims and beliefs are not equally subjective. humans have created methods for removing as much subjectivity as we can, and then there's faith, which indulges solely subjective...
  19. Sheldon

    I have no use for God

    I am dubious, since you would need to define how you are claiming faith is efficacious, but faith of course is not a deity, which was the context. My heart is a pump made of muscle, and my mind weighs claims on the how much objective evidence supports them. Have you set your "heart" and mind...
  20. Sheldon

    I Believe ...

    Anyone can choose to believe they have evidence, whether it is compelling or objective evidence FOR that belief is another matter.
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