The options are a bit weird. I don't have any trust in any particular church, but if there is a valid and sound argument, then I'd follow it. I...
Well, this still avoids the point I'm making, and that you made yourself in the OP, that it depends on what you mean by the words. IQ and...
I think this is the central answer, to the point where saying anything about them without first establishing a measuring stick is only confusing...
What religious worship do you perform if you are an agnostic?
This is a little light on the details that matter. Here are some excerpts from the wiki page. The sun did not really dance in the sky. We know...
I don't agree with the concept of some word having a meaning to me. Words are for communication. Normally when someone says something means...
Like many words, it has several meanings. The trick is not to figure out which is the final word on the meaning, the trick is to listen to...
I'm with Maquiscat, you've provided too little and irrelevant information, and don't really answer the concerns in their post. Why post if you're...
Didn't you already write a post on this topic in http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/i-rule-god.613271/#post-1074410250 ? You provide...
Why not? You made a point, I challenged it? If your points don't stand up to challenges, why do you have them?
Doesn't make it different to deism.
Nah, they mostly fall in the same traps that monotheists do. They mostly replace bad arguments with no argument at all, which is even less persuasive.
I suppose that's true. The world is becoming more secular, which is having ramifications, and the makeup of the democratic party is one aspect of...
I do not agree. "True culture" is not "living best", nor is it "natural sciences". You're missing a lot of steps.
No. Many people have many gods, many people have none. It's unclear whether you think it should be this way, or you think it is this way. I think...
Pretty sure an AI could do way better than that. They can do grammar, punctuation, and coherent argument.
Agreed, as I write, religion also requires abstraction and persistence of ideas (among other things, I'm sure). A deer reacting to a threat is an...
Hm, no, I'm not saying religion is not different from the deer, I'm saying belief in the unquantifiable is not different from the deer. I'm saying...
No, but they also don't have abstraction, or ability to develop, maintain and iterate building processes, so we wouldn't expect them to. I don't...
Well, I think my point is that superstition alone is not what brings religiosity, but that it needs coupling with abstraction and information...
The belief in the unquantifiable doesn't seem that different to me to a deer that gets spooked by a rustle in the grass without confirming that...
Sure, we have many methods for assessing and improving reliability, and understanding under what circumstances something is reliable. This doesn't...
Does it really address reliability? Because so far, I've mostly just seen them claim to have it, without justifying it, which is the same logic we...
Cool, I don't care about my comments either. I care about the answers to my questions. And of course, the reason you should care about them isn't...
Perhaps. It's beside the point, either way. What about them? What do you think they prove and why? Did you believe what you believe before you...
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