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“Were the Samurai spiritual? I think they were.

What do you mean by “spiritual”, in this case?”

See what i mean? Worthless word. If we can’t understand the speaker without asking their definition then we have come upon a word that ought to be obsolete and archaic. Sure a skilled writer can use a word in a way that obfuscates their meaning or is…[Read more]

“I’d like to see the day when Christianity goes the way of Zeus. Will it be a roll of the dice or is there some sense to the way things happen?”

You are not likely to encounter many antitheists with greater vituperation and contempt for religion.

Having said that make Christianity disappear and in its place some other horror. Some other m…[Read more]

I think what this thread is trying to determine is whether we can reap the benefits of spirituality (peace, love, happiness, social harmony, a sense of awe) without having to resort to religious delusion, supernaturalism, mysticism.

Reminds me of can we be good without god. How the theists have controlled the narrative and had so many atheists…[Read more]

James Webb telescope.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/world/webb-telescope-massive-early-galaxies-scn/index.html

There has been a bunch of shocking stuff and its use is in its infancy.

rhonjon that makes as much sense to me as interpreting the handbook from god as an allegory or metaphor or some other spin to rationalize what can not be abided

It is fairly evident from only a cursory examination of contemporary cosmology that the standard model is gonna be defenestrated.

The latest discoveries from James are pretty wild.

The notion that one chooses one’s religion is akin to the religious notion one chooses one’s sexuality. It is force fed to children. The psychological chickens especially of orthodoxy overcome all but the most rhonjon resistant subjects. Christianity has a long history of exploiting unformed brains. Shit ought to be illegal until age 13.

Oh and condolences on your locus, rhonjon. When i first drove through bible belt i was in shock. It is so infused at every turn with religiosity that i thought i might as well be in a different country. So sickening.

Yeah i have had my fill of authors espousing atheism. Read theologians and apologists too. Grew up without religion and struggled to understand how it was any more convincing than santa clause. It is so patently absurd and false that to me the more compelling aspect is the impact of religion. Am an antitheist from here to Timbuktu or Portland Oregon.

How Fauci and the team bent over for Trump was sickening. I wonder whether the politicization of the pandemic was fueled by Trump. Not simply in USA but throughout the voild. I remember reading how other nations followed dumb as can be US drug policy. None of the so called sacrifices are jack squat compared to the sacrifices made by 100s of…[Read more]

How our senses evolved to perceive is explained in Genesis. It is so cool that eyewitness testimony is famously unreliable. And what fun would it be if we were like machines and missed out on optical illusions. Our sensibilities yaw to the tune of alcohol and dope. Our moods shift to the beat of the internal and external influences.

The finite…[Read more]

Yeah disingenuous is the kinder word to describe my perception of Dr Bob.

And to Unseen’s credit he unlike Dr. Bob is not an ideologue. Ideologues gear their polemics and talking points to preservation of their ideology. Facts be damned. Glaring weaknesses in their particular ideology are unseen or what is worse, circumvented. Thus, integrity is…[Read more]

rhonjon, what i wrote about the old testament was a famous Dawkins quote. Not my words. I have it memorized though. I memorize shit. Talk shit and even say it backwards. gnitirw sdrawkcab si ysae neesnU.

Original sin is such a degenerate concept. So Reg our resident fronkey farmer has pointed out a wonderful absurdity as you may have noticed.…[Read more]

DrBob, no gish galloping here. Had not even broken into a trot. You conveniently avoided any kind of substantive response to any of it.

You are an apologist to a degree that sickens me. Sophistry. A surfiet of sophistry slinking and slithering…

Defending the Catholic’s violation of human rights against indigenous peoples and relabeling it to…[Read more]

I talk backwards. Never tried writing but seems easy enough.

Uncle Johnjon,

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously…[Read more]