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Simon, the external appearance to a blind theist of receiving help that is oft-cited by atheists as jawdroppingly obtuse is the one home and owner left untouched by an act of god. Standing among the ruin is the one mindless theist who praises god for saving her. One might ask if that theist has a theory of mind just as an ethologist asks about…[Read more]

No, Simon you did not answer any of the other questions.

You are helping somebody and divine help comes along and i am sure sometimes it does not come along…all the while incalculable and avoidable suffering is occurring. Brilliant! That is quite a conclusion you have reached. If you detect sarcasm you aint wrong.

Simon, the notion that the evidence for god is divine intervention? Wherever, whatever are you conjuring? Atrocities such as genocides, torture, massacres, fire bombing; so called acts of god such as earthquakes, tsunamis,volcanoes, hurricanes? From the human perspective that makes divine intervention high jinks from a divine prick.

You did not…[Read more]

Simon your advice was good until..there’s evidence for or against. No evidence. What do you have in mind as evidence? There is indoctrinated thinking, delusional thinking and wishful thinking. What evidence!

Second thing that makes no sense…I do what god would like anyways. if there is an architect and it has a role in human behavior or cares…[Read more]

Michael, it is disturbing to read your religious delusion. It could as easily be the words of a schizophrenic person in the grips of a delusion.

It appears there is no reasoning with you.

Yeah persecutions and martyrdom…

Otherwise no code and no need for 164 iq Michael to waste his time centuries later deciphering the code. Perhaps the gestapo was going door to door inspecting the scribblings of the few literate, that is if a literate agent was to be found. Yeah the empire was cracking down on malcontents who were out to…[Read more]

Define spiritual por favor.

Michael, mass hysteria can be photographed. So can natural phenomena or contrived…

You wrote something that you should take to heart. THE SCIENTISTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN HONEST AND SAID SIMPLY, WE DON’T KNOW.

I betya if this Virgin Mary is later discovered to be a hoax like the famous bigfoot filming it will do nothing to dissuade you. You wont…[Read more]

Michael, you have skeptical reactions to rationalism of any stripe that contravenes your highly idiosyncratic and tendentious fantasy.

If you were a proponent of space men visiting us (at least that fantasy is within the realm of possible) a ufo(s) that could not be identified would buttress your fantasy.

Did the gremlins that were perceived…[Read more]

It is clear you got nuthin Michael. Bone dry.

I am not even gonna bother to critique your thoughts.

I had an image in a cabinet that could be perceived as Jesus. I should have sold tickets.

Michael, are you gonna just duck, dodge and evade?

How did you come to believe in god? What is your evidence? Why is the bible reliable? How can a text authenticate itself? Why shouldn’t prophecies be clear to all? If an all powerful creator has something to tell us why be abstruse? Failing to communicate with clarity makes the prophecy known to…[Read more]

Earthly delights have to be controlled. If you analyze history through the lens of power you wont be far off. Men are the first shamans. Men are the priests. Men want power. Women are wicked. control your bitch!

Michael, i have yet to read anything cogent. In terms of your interpretation of history i recommend you read/listen to the amazing…[Read more]

woops i am tired…i meant astrologist, not astronomer

Used car salesman…sorry but your bad reputation is earned

If only you had somehow avoided the indoctrination and been a proper thinking atheist you might have achieved such greatness: town drunk, miscreant, deviant, gutter snipe, urchin, rube, neerdowell, shaman, astronomer, pettifogger, used car salesman…

Alas and alack your development was abetted by the chains of the church. Having betrayed my…[Read more]

Michael, what follows is not intended to be an attack on you. Without knowing you, only having read what you have written i am more favorably inclined to you than i am or was to Doctor Bob. I am fairly certain Doctor Bob was a charlatan. You on other hand seem to be honest in giving your opinions and world view.

Religion is cancer. Humans are as…[Read more]

Michael, reading the tea leaves, searching for proof that the prophecies are fulfilled with such indefatigable steadfastness (40 years?) virtually assures that your results-driven investigation will see you find what you are seeking.

If a prophecy is real it won’t require tea leaves, it won’t have ambiguity. There will be no need for exegesis or…[Read more]

stop with the bullshit…mindless fucking bullshit