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Inflicting pain is not considered wrong when it is necessary for self-defense, or in situations where it serves a greater good, such as necessary medical treatment or in the case of...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
1- Humans feel pain, and inflicting pain on others is wrong.
The problem is, who decides when its wrong? Or even, so wrong, it can never be justified. Inflicting pain is...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 hours ago
Objective morality can be built on two axioms : 1- Humans feel pain, and inflicting pain on others is wrong. 2 - Needless suffering is just that : needless, and nothing else. No scripture, no...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 3 hours ago
I don't think "Plantinga's Defense" is as solid as that lying douche William Lame Craig makes it out to be. Free Will, if we grant it, only accounts for human caused...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 4 hours ago
Great! I don't think there is a separate emotional problem since people are not unemotional creatures like the character Spock. It's definitely an emotional problem, but it's part of the same...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 7 hours ago
Thanks, John. It did work after a while.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 7 hours ago
Sorry, try Google. William Lane Craig the emotional problem of evil. Thanks!
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 8 hours ago
I read an article about some people in Kentucky. Although Trump's policies had not benefited them materially, they are more enthusiastic about Trump than ever. I came away with the impression...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 10 hours ago
I think the main obstacle to convincing a believer that their religion is purely man-made is their refusal to think about it at all. How can you convince someone if you do not get to talk to them...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 12 hours ago
That link is not working. It says "Unavailable" or just goes to a blank page. Edited: It worked after a few more tries. Reading that stuff gives me vertigo. Pure obfuscation. Trying to...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 13 hours ago
Heres the problem in a nutshell:
Problem of Evil (part 1) | Podcast | Reasonable Faith https://share.google/LC9bhs...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 20 hours ago
Atheists are humans, and so will be influenced by their particular emotions as much as theists are. But atheists have the considerable advantage that they also have the full weights of science and...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 22 hours ago
It's said there is an emotional problem to evil, as opposed to an intellectual one, and that atheists are persuaded by their emotional reasons not intellectual reasons. Run that and see!
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
Note that bafflement is often a System 1 response (in the dual-process model of human cognition, "System 1" produces our immediate, effortless, unreflective, emotional,...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 1 day ago
I might add that the above chat session I linked stands as something of a counterweight (in my view, at least) to the endless scare stories and nay-saying we hear about AI. While AI in its current...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
Sounds interesting! But this very terse teaser leaves some questions unanswered. So I had a rather interesting chat with Gemini (link) about...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 1 day ago
Paul as an over-compensating closet-case would explain a lot.
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 days ago
Paul's momentary idea of "love" may entail acceptance of multiple ways...
It is not even "momentary". As I have repeated here many times, the...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 days ago
I wonder if David was taking the same drugs that Elon Musk was taking when he tweeted (or "Xed") that he loved Trump as much as a straight man can love another...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 days ago
Raccoons have been introduced to Germany, Japan, and Ukraine. Let the British be thankful that raccoons probably cannot swim across the Channel - because once they do, you'll be...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 2 days ago
That'll be everyone this side of the pond then.
Raccoons have been introduced to Germany, Japan, and Ukraine. Let the British be thankful that raccoons probably cannot...
Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 2 days ago
As to Catholics and evangelicals, I think many who are attracted to such systems are people who are attracted to structures that impose social control - as long as they profit from the...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 days ago
In 2 Samuel 1:26, we find this text: “I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you have been a close friend to me. Your love for me was more wonderful than the love of...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 days ago
Believe it or not, I’ll close with one of the feel-good quotes found in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13:4-7:
“Love is patient; love is kind;...
Debunking Christianity: Setting the Bible Straight on It’s Flawed Condemnations of Same-Sex Love · 2 days ago