In their gut they feel it must be so, so it must be so!

line my God is real but yours isn't without evidence a God exists.

pounded into their heads since preschool.

or sunrise, etc. How can you not think that there's a god ... who made that just for US? Don't ya know we're the center of the universe?
And they think the Universe = solar system where the sun and all planet revolve around us.
Oh, and I'll pray for you.




Yep, I heard this too many times.

they'll pray for me, I tell them I forbid it, but still give them the option of cash or credit.

Prayer gives the illusion of actually accomplishing something. Convenient, no?

and see that return.

And tell me again about your wonderful God.

JHC on a crutch there are so many horrible and dangerous things happening and you're going on about butterflies being the proof of God.

(not directed at Duppers, but the people who smarm on about all things bright and beautiful...

Reality sucks, but it's all we got.

If god created Everything, why did he....?
They've got NOTHING and are always cherry-picking.

In one of my very favorite videos, the fabulous Stephen Fry puts it so well....

and I tell them poetry aint proof. Most of the time I think it's either a fear of not believing or a hard wired true belief, a variant on the Third Man Factor. Mostly, I don't really give a shit, whatever gets someone through a dark and lonely night is none of my business. I only object when they try to put their silly dogma into civil law.

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convince the delusional to vote for them, which we know happens all too often. I'm convinced that our political climate would be very different if religion were abandoned.




Also, I'm not fond of being labeled evil.

we just have to solve for "X".
QED

Are they not afraid of being smitten by his mighty hammer?

Clearly the handiwork of Thor himself.

Thanks.

We are talking about two incompatible philosophies here: belief and doubt.

Religion is rooted in belief. Belief is accepting a statement, no matter how small the evidence.
Science is rooted in doubt. Doubt is NOT accepting a statement, no matter how big the evidence.



You cannot treat the subject God with scientific means, just as you cannot treat scientific matters with religious means.

Let's ask this the other way round:
"And which spirits and daemons are responsible for these quantum-mechanics? How are they related to the spirits and daemons that govern the finite velocity of light?"

You see? Two absolutely different ways of looking at the universe. Instead of tackling the problem whether God does or doesn't exist, we should tackle the problem which of the two philosophies is correct.

There is a major difference between them:
The "philosophy of doubt" is compatible with the formulas of random sampling in statistical mathematics. The "philosophy of belief" is incompatible with this math.