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Strega wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Strega, Here lately, I’ve found I can only log in at the bottom of the main page but not the top.

well that’s a handy thing to know!

Assuming “the main page” means the bottom of the home page, I can’t see where one would log in there. Explain, please.

Yep, Anthony Flew over the cuckoo’s nest too.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Strega, Here lately, I’ve found I can only log in at the bottom of the main page but not the top.

well that’s a handy thing to know!

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert,

And yeah, excluding Harris and a few others, many atheists don’t exactly get the big picture.

The problem, of course, is not a God-shaped hole. The problem is that both Believers and Unbelievers can have a brain-shaped hole. Atheism is no guarantor of good sense on any other subject. There has to be a larger r…

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I don’t see how Antony Flew could have even accepted evolutionary biology with his “complexity” argument. Is it really that difficult to comprehend random chromosomal variation selected to propagate by surviving environmental conditions?

I will admit that his wishy-washy deist god is at least possible, unlike the storied gods in the books.

Robert,

And yeah, excluding Harris and a few others, many atheists don’t exactly get the big picture.

The problem, of course, is not a God-shaped hole. The problem is that both Believers and Unbelievers can have a brain-shaped hole. Atheism is no guarantor of good sense on any other subject. There has to be a larger respect for Reason and O…[Read more]

Strega,

Here lately, I’ve found I can only log in at the bottom of the main page but not the top.

The biggest conversion shock in the history of philosophy came with the conversion of the British philosopher Antony Flew from being a proponent of atheism to a very limited kind of theism. He became a theist in the broadest possible sense.

He felt it was impossible to believe that DNA just happened by accident. That, basically, is the sum total…[Read more]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been there, lived it and feels atheism is no stalworth against jihad.

Western civilisation is under threat from three different but related forces: the resurgence of great-power authoritarianism and expansionism in the forms of the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s Russia; the rise of global Islamism, which t…

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Reg,

I only read some of the Unherd article as I was getting annoyed, not with the Sade of Atheism but with the realization that I will be constantly finding articles about how an atheist found Jesus!! Like all the stories about C.S Lewis. FFS!!

It’s already happening on YouTube:

Maybe she’ll…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!  Could not log in yesterday at all!

Yeah that is a colossal bummer about Hirsi. Having said that, she had slowly been becoming a liability to the reputation of atheists. Even for fairly innocuous non-controversial seeming things, she was saying very unhinged shit. Best comment I had read so far was that, going Christian would help bring her more money and more attention to her…[Read more]

Reg,

Well, now that I think about it, there is some good in the Ayaan Hirsi Ali story:

Neither Atheism as a philosphical position nor any Atheist that I have heard of says that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is going to Hell on account of her mere belief. In fact, no one goes anywhere on account of mere belief.

Also, despite her belief, neither Christianity…[Read more]

@Unseen, do you think we might have solved the problem of Divine Hiddenness ?? 🙂

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

It took me a moment…LOL

I only read some of the Unherd article as I was getting annoyed, not with the Sade of Atheism but with the realization that I will be constantly finding articles about how an atheist found Jesus!! Like all the stories about C.S Lewis. FFS!!

Enco that was my initial reaction. DISAPPOINTMENT

Upon reflection i am guessing she is selling books. Sure, she got some good ideas from her right wing think tank. And then she decided to run with it and capitalize on it. Does not sound like she is even coming out as a true believer.

Reg,

Damn! That is a big disappointment that someone as smart as Ayasn Hirsi Ali gave up Atheism for Christianity. And what is this doing on a Web Site called UnHerd? Isn’t she just re-herding herself? And for what amounts to a Post Hoc,Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy and a False Dilemma Fallacy!

Just because great things such as The Enlightenment,…[Read more]