Lars

Both definite positions, for or against, are wishful thinking, because neither can be proved.

Yikes. That’s not a good way for any approach on knowledge and the existence of things. The default approach is skepticism. If all the evidence points to your dog having eaten your shoes, you aren’t going to buy some story your wife tells about aliens…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

Jesus was a stupid asshole

Honestly, if I were to come across a person who said most of the stuff Jesus said, I would be partially endeared to him for his ideas of kindness, I would be horrified by many of the things he says (cutting out your eye, abandoning your family) and greatly disturbed by his support for what someone says/does (who he…[Read more]

Simon, if Jesus existed at all, he died before the religion was created.  Poor old J was simply a tool for the creation of Christianity and the controlling of the people and the nations.  This part is history. You can read all about it from many, many sources.

The Jesus was the token with which Christianity was designed and imposed, using the a…[Read more]

But what exactly is meant by this?  Perhaps citizens and theologians have differing views.

Yes. Welcome to the dodgy, pointless time wasting world of theology. Every work on the topic usually defines all loving. The works that come closest to a reasonable rational definition are the works that are the most respectable but that doesn’t mean…[Read more]

There’s a biological pressure to reproduce, Simon.  Once we are no longer able to reproduce, biology is quite relaxed about whether we thrive or don’t.  Try shifting your perspective a little.  The only thing that’s inherently biological is our need to reproduce.  DNA needs to replicate and mutate. All the rest is just bullshit stuff to occupy ou…[Read more]

Maybe this is a simplistic view

Uhhh no. A lot of people take that as a given. They hold that God is all loving and then find preposterous ways to square that with God’s immense cruelty (often by showing it is not cruel at all). Indeed I’ve met very few theists who admit God is not all loving and they often leave it up to bad theology or “God…[Read more]

That doesn’t make any sense Simon. Evolution is a long, undirected process that, arguably, it more likely to NOT end in self-aware beings. There was ZERO spirituality among creatures until advanced mammals showed up. You cannot have spirituality without having a world view and uncertainty about the world. There is absolutely NO evidence that ants…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

Are you saying that you find meaning in this?

As much meaning as you can find in all the other non-sentient activity in the Universe. The Sun blasts the inner planets with intense and deadly radiation. Is there meaning in that? Water usually freezes at the poles and no ice is to be found at the equator. Is there meaning in that? There are more…[Read more]

“Who would want to be morally perfect?”

I once had a watchmaker try to sell me a $10,000 watch.  I suggested for that money I could fly to Hong Kong, stay in the finest hotel, and have an identical one forged for me before returning first class to the UK. He told me the watch was accurate to the extent it would lose 0.001 seconds over twenty year…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!