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  1. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    Most of what I posted on the list in the OP is common knowledge you can easily look up. Now, item 3 might not be so well known. I'd suggest you check out How we know there's no afterlife - With Sean Carroll.
  2. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    I see you deny what modern science has to say waving its theories away as "only common beliefs."
  3. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    Maybe I overestimated the knowledge of the members here, or perhaps they don't know how to look things up. Every listed item in the OP is fairly common knowledge and can be found on Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube. Did you try any of those resources? I'd also recommend the works of Carl Sagan and...
  4. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    I'm not sure what your point is, but "neural systems" are physical. So poor jelly fish must die and lose forever whatever awareness they have. Just like we do. And I love it!!!
  5. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    Many religious people really hate science and other modern disciplines because what we're learning from them is that religion has been getting it wrong all along. It's important to religious people that their beliefs be true because they want the rewards promised by their religion. Consequently...
  6. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    All the sources I've ever checked including Britannica and Wikipedia state that the Genesis creation stories are based in Babylonian mythology. For example, from Genesis Creation Narratives we read: There's no evidence at all that Jewish religion influenced the Babylonians' mythology.
  7. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    Some people still don't realize that Genesis is wrong and need to know that it's plagiarized Babylonian mythology. I just hope that people don't believe that. When people waste their time with religious quackery, then tragedy is very often the result.
  8. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    By consciousness I'm referring to the ability to think, remember, or be aware of one's surroundings. Consciousness is made possible by a physical brain whose electro-chemical processes create thoughts, ideas, and memories. With the death of the brain, these processes cease because their is no...
  9. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    Those facts really aren't reconcilable with many religious claims. They demonstrate that religion is simply wrong regarding its claims about the world. Then you need to tell Einstein that. According to his Theory of Relativity, it is impossible for anything with mass to travel at or above the...
  10. J

    Some Important Facts for the Religious (and Everybody Else)

    The observable cosmos is 13.6 billion years old and has evolved into its present form. The earth is 4.6 billion years old and along with the rest of the solar system formed under gravity from a cloud of dust and gas in space. There is no evidence that any consciousness can function without a...
  11. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    And what is not true about God is invariably what somebody with an opposing viewpoint about God believes. A notorious example is that of the issue of confession. Roman Catholics say God instituted the practice of confessing sins to priests who are ordained by the Catholic church. Protestants, of...
  12. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    Yes. I've known religions to evangelize by offering "information." If you had Google or YouTube in your world, then you could look up Jews for Judaism. It's a Jewish group that seeks to reconvert Jews that have converted to Christianity. I'm referring primarily to religions converting people...
  13. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    Yes, and you're still on a religion discussion board. Unbelievers sometimes convert to religion, of course. Did you ever go beyond words to convince skeptics that your religious beliefs are true? If not, then I think that lack of substance may be the reason skeptics don't believe you. But...
  14. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    I suppose we do live in different worlds. In your world it looks like there is no Google to check to see what religions have websites. I don't know which of my claims you doubt. You are welcome to factcheck everything I say and correct me. This what? I hear these kinds of religious...
  15. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    Why are you feigning ignorance of an obvious fact? It appears that you are denying an inconvenient truth. People are free to make their case for or against religion as far as I'm concerned. You appear to fear my reasons for openly expressing skepticism of religious claims, and that's why...
  16. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    What I don't understand is what you're doing on a discussion board about religion if you think it doesn't matter what people who don't share your beliefs understand about those beliefs. You may be an exceptional case, but for the large majority of religious people it does indeed matter if others...
  17. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    I suppose you're right, but I need to judge for myself. I give religious people every opportunity to clarify their beliefs to me. If all they can do is babble about it, then I call it for what it is. You'll find people in mental institutions for whom their being Abe Lincoln makes sense to them...
  18. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    Why do you need religion to find meaning and purpose in life? Many people find meaning and purpose in life without religion. Did somebody tell you that you need religion for those reasons? That sounds nice, but in practice almost all people including religious people put themselves first and...
  19. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    So much of what the religious have to say makes little sense. You've posted an example here. Maybe that's why religion is so popular. If it made sense, then it could be falsified.
  20. J

    Religion and Morality, Happiness, Hope and Love

    You think correctly. It appears to me that those who insist they cannot be happy without their religion could get by without it. Many happy people are not religious. If they can be happy without religion, then why not everybody? So were you miserable without your religion? How does your...
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