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Sunday School December 1st 2019
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December 1, 2019 at 4:23 pm #29421
I am grateful for not being blessed.
Islamists in Egypt continue to have a compulsion to abuse the human rights of atheists.
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Can you find any faults with this apologists’ arguments?
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Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?
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Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason.
Top 10 STEM toy gifts for children.
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Some photographs taken last week.
While you are waiting for the kettle to boil…..
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December 1, 2019 at 4:26 pm #29422Have a great week everyone!!
“Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.”
– George Eliot
Sorry for the late edition today. I am travelling within the USA.
December 1, 2019 at 6:28 pm #29424Can you find any faults with this apologists’ arguments?
I do not consider this a serious attempt at…well anything. Claims to posses a scientific mind and then all we get is all antidotal wonkiness and claims from thin air. Thinks that like believers; atheists have to work to be atheists. I am sorry but why would an atheist have to try? Like we would wake up a think “today I am going to try to be an atheist”. Just silliness.
December 1, 2019 at 6:40 pm #29425Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?
I think this article is really good – linking human virtue signalling to the fitness- or poisonousness-signalling done in nature – but a little bit mistaken to compare religious costly displays of faith, to normal Twitter virtue signalling.
The difference is, “normal” virtue signalling is cost-free. Nobody is really committing or staking anything on their purported state of virtue. So, the author, Neil Levy, is mistaken to draw conclusions by comparing the two. I think whoever said that bogus virtue signalling corrupts public discourse, was right. Anybody can make out that they are a good person, falsely. And this is why the practice is derided.
December 1, 2019 at 6:48 pm #29426Just silliness.
I think he comes across as a bit of a dick – blaming atheism for increased political polarisation, for example, or calling us “deviants” – but I have to say I agree with a lot of his general points, mainly, that atheists often don’t have a good “insider’s” view of religion.
He also has an overly-pessimistic view of human nature, thinking that we’re all like the Marquis de Sade underneath, when only some of us are (lol), but I have to agree that without good large-scale management, society crumbles to shit. The question is, can religion provide that good management of society? Personally I think a mix of religious and civil governance is best.
December 1, 2019 at 6:57 pm #29427I agree with a lot of his general points, mainly, that atheists often don’t have a good “insider’s” view of religion.
Being a Catholic for 1/2 of my life I think I have had an excellent insider’s view of religion. Where is his proof?
without good large-scale management, society crumbles to shit The question is, can religion provide that good management of society
You go on the prove my point. For centuries, religion ruled to roost. I think we have an answer.
His arguments are empty.
December 1, 2019 at 9:16 pm #29429Thanks, Reg!
by the way my signed Bill Bryson book arrived yesterday and I’m nose deep. Some extraordinary nuggets.
Apparently our eyebrows play a large part in signaling our moods, and a big reason the Mona Lisa smile is considered enigmatic is that she literally has no eyebrows. I had never noticed that but now of course it’s obvious!
December 1, 2019 at 9:26 pm #29430Apparently our eyebrows play a large part in signaling our moods,
That’s funny because I was watching these sisters and thinking..wow look at those brows work,
December 1, 2019 at 9:36 pm #29431Where is his proof?
I have to say, I agree with “Roderic” that Dawkins and Dennett sometimes sound pretty ignorant when it comes to making pronouncements about religion. As an ex-Catholic, you’re more qualified to speak about it than many.
December 1, 2019 at 9:49 pm #29432I have to say, I agree with “Roderic” that Dawkins and Dennett sometimes sound pretty ignorant when it comes to making pronouncements about religion
Yeah, I agree with ya there, perhaps those two didn’t spend much time kneeling, but folks like Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Hitch, Harris, and Aaron Ra would blow Roderic away with their knowledge.
There are many studies showing that non believers did their homework (even if they are not “insiders”).
https://www.pewforum.org/2019/07/23/which-religious-groups-know-what-about-religion/away.
December 2, 2019 at 2:10 am #29434I think he comes across as a bit of a dick – blaming atheism for increased political polarisation, for example, or calling us “deviants” – […]
He also has an overly-pessimistic view of human nature, thinking that we’re all like the Marquis de Sade underneath, […]
I haven’t read the article yet, but I wonder if this guy hasn’t yet met some avid jihadists before complaining about atheist world views?
December 2, 2019 at 3:37 pm #29437avid jihadists
It wouldn’t surprise me if the majority of terrorists, of every stripe, have personality disorders of the de Sade type.
December 2, 2019 at 7:07 pm #29438@strega Page 78 already 😊
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