James McGrath Takes on Mythicism Again
If he continues he'll end up writing a book about it. Link.
My last statement on the topic can be found here.
My last statement on the topic can be found here.
If truth was the product of belief, we would be living on a flat earth at the center of the universe. I'm not opposed to every religion . . . only those involving people.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 2 hours ago
I wonder how many demons inhabited each pig. Just one per pig? More than one? And I also don’t understand this: if the goal was to kill the demons, why not just send them into the ocean to drown?...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 2 hours ago
“Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding, and the unclean spirits begged him, ‘Send us into the swine; let us enter them.’ So he gave them permission. And the...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago
One should not confuse intelligent with knowledgeable.
True, and conversely one should not pretend that intelligence and knowledge are utterly disjoint. The two traits...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 4 hours ago
There is also the rapid development of the economies of these countries, plus the explosion of the media helped break the isolation of the believers and the Church's grip on their...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
But no religion would survive if its own marks were able to take an outsider's perspective to their own received faith. Therefore every religion must already contain built-in...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 7 hours ago
From Deepak Chopra to William Lame Craig, the three B's apply. An anacronym we'd troop out when dealing with officers. Bullshit Baffles...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 9 hours ago
I think less well-educated people all over the world say with great admiration things like, "Wow ! That guy is a genius. When he talks, nobody understands a word he is saying !!"
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 11 hours ago
The majority of MAGAt's are too stupid to even understand what an AI is telling them, that's even if they had the nous to be able to use it. Though I've seen enough ex-MAGAt's...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 11 hours ago
That was my experience too. I didn't even know there was a name for it at the time.
Maybe that is a more common thing than we think. I am just surmising, and I have no...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 12 hours ago
No atheist had talked to her about the absurdity of it, and she had not read anything about it. It just kind of manifested itself spontaneously.
That was my experience...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 13 hours ago
One should not confuse intelligent with knowledgeable. AI is knowledgeable because of the vast data center that supports it. It can help people who are already open to get more knowledgeable. Ditto...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 15 hours ago
You told us this story once before, and it's good hearing it again. Far out! As Charles Ryder's father says in Brideshead Revisited, "Such a lot of nonsense."
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 22 hours ago
But no religion would survive if its own marks were able to take an outsider's perspective to their own received faith.
To some - very few - it comes naturally. My wife...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
As I replied to josephpalazzo, my comment was not produced by ChatGPT alone, so its intelligence in this particular case is not to be measured by its reply. I merely asked it to structure the ideas...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
There is also the rapid development of the economies of these countries, plus the explosion of the media helped break the isolation of the believers and the Church's grip on their minds.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
I think everyone here is aware of that, except the Jasons of this world. I actually fed ChatGPT the content and just asked it (him?) to write it all down nicely for me. I don't know what...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
It serves the interest of religious authorities that their sacred texts be obscure. For distinction between authority and clarity, Martha Nussbaum’s “The Professor of Parody,” New Republic,...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
I've tried to explain that I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic, or perhaps I am optimistic and pessimistic by turns, depending on which set of assumptions I project from. (Sort like...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
I wonder how much of this erosion of Roman Catholic Church moral authority results from the collapse of geocentrism playing out. The Catholic Church took a bold stand for the geocentrism of the...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
If the "I" (Intelligence) part of "AI" (Artificial Intelligence) holds true, then ever since late 2022 when ChatGPT triggered the current wave of public-facing AI LLM chatbots,...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
In the 13th chapter titled, Science and Evidence, P poses this challenge to R:
“I mean wouldn’t you at least admit that there’s some inconsistency in the idea of...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
Just a reminder: ever since I've been posting on DC, I have said many, many times that (any) religion is based on a fairy tale. So comparing religion to movies and cartoons, it's not...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
Well, sadly I don't share your optimism about AI. Sure it will do away with trucking jobs and other similar jobs but it won't raise human intelligence. There's a saying going around,...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
One of the cool things they teach in statistics courses (or in self-study books such as Statistics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP link)...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 days ago