I consider racism generally fear oriented, a reaction of hostility toward unfamiliar territory. I suspect mass market organized global slavery amplified racism by providing slave owners a seudo-rational reason to experience hatred toward their "property": to justify its mistreatment without...
If there is no God,
we should respect his wishes anyway because he is supposedly very nice.
But it is possible to make a case for the near-inevitability of God by admitting to a subtle degree of flexibility concerning the terms Omniscience, Omnipresence, and Omnipotence: all knowledge, all...
How would sending a clearer message to humanity negate our free will?
Assuming that you believe in some sort of prophets, i.e. people who have received direct communication from God, did they somehow not have free will?
Free will is about choosing what to study. If you'd rather watch Bay...
1) Your humanness
2) You've probably only met a few of them
3) (the importance of) Free will
4) So you have someone bigger than you to talk to without feeling schizophrenic.
Some hypotheticals are too massive in proportions to be refuted.
The rationale of a particular gamble can be determined based on potential win, potential loss, and probability of either. Concerning infinite hypotheticals, a potential loss of (infinite suffering) vs. a potential win of (infinite...