Just a small precision : Allah is simply the Arabic word for "God". It literally means "The God." The word Allah has the same Semitic root as 'El" in Hebrew and...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 38 minutes ago
Good to hear.
I read somewhere that drinking is the only drug habit for which you have to explain to people why you don't have it.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
To the annoyance of many on this group, I constantly harp on other common behaviors that rack up present or future impressive body counts - such as smoking, drinking, driving, flying,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
More good points here:
14. Forgive People for Being Christian.
Humans are seriously fucked up. They are flawed. They are frightened. They need whatever messages...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
But as the Devil's Advocate (a Christian), you, sir, believe that the four Gospels tell a unified story.
Why are you now talking crap? Devil's advocate:-...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
I agree with comparing such apologetics to the Cargo Cult. As for Occam's razor, some apologists invoke it when they think it suits them. Some criticize the Razor. The rhetorical devices used...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
But as the Devil's Advocate (a Christian), you, sir, believe that the four Gospels tell a unified story. Therefore, if John's women watched J of A and N soak Jesus' body in 100 lbs...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
The nature of "newsworthiness" also helps to explain why people worry about things according to factors other than actual risk. For example, some people drink bottled water because they...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
Even those of us who value evidence and embrace reality have to take a news vacation from time to time. Reality sucks.
I would say "especially those of us",...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
[...] while believers can invoke, for example, Edward Feser's argument from reason. They could also argue that just if the argument is right, and if God doesn't exist, then...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
HA HA HA HA !!!
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
Physicalists like Daniel Dennett held that conscious experience is an illusion.
Which strikes me as somewhat question begging, or at least not question-answering, since...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
Unpacking and finding what, exactly? A soul?
I'm thinking a mechanism. Picture having a time machine and sending an iPad back to some cave men. They would be able to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
The brain equaling the mind is no more objectionable than the motor equaling the car's power.
Or no less objectionable, as in this analogy the motor itself is a...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
They knew that J of A and N had already applied spices. They had watched them do it.
Not in gMark, the first iteration of the story. There's no mention of Nicodemus,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
Good points. But even if the women were willing to break the taboo about women touching a male corpse, let's play out the scene: -the women plan to apply spices to a body that has been decomposing...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 9 hours ago
Maybe because religion is never the cause of anything in history, good or bad? To me religion is an effect, the result, of deeper causes. What looks like religious motivation only masks something...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 9 hours ago
@danielmocsny:disqus as well as Robert: The human brain weighs around 3 pounds, but something seems off about saying that our mind weighs around three pounds. Philosophers talk about states and...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago
Playing DA here. Singer's argument isn't on as sound a foundation as he thinks. And the juxtaposition between the gospel yarn and the Exodus yarn, vis a vis eyewitnesses, struggles...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago
Good point. I would like to add that AI has a mind (yet unconscious) without having a brain. However some apologists call AI a Cargo cult because it supposedly only imitates the human mind. Anyway,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago
My guess is that the majority of pew warmers are not seekers. They were acculturated as children -- "unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
Computers giving rise to minds just reinforces the brain = mind, or am I missing something?
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
Unpacking and finding what, exactly? A soul?
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
No tax on churches = society paying people to be stupid.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
I just copied the whole thing from my Disqus "profile" and pasted it. I on't know how long it might stay before it gets marked as spam again. Might not happen, of course. Edited to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago