If a scientist adopting your religious views is compelling evidence for you, would a preacher or other individual in the JW adopting atheism be compelling too?
It's a bit strange but it's not the strangest I've encountered. I do have a couple of questions though. If there are an infinite number of simulations happenening are there an infinite number of "you" in other simulations? If so can you communicate with them and are they different or are they...
When you avoid death and jump to another reality do any of the people that were in your life previously change? For example you have a friend that likes to go bowling with you then you barely escape death and they hate bowling now.
"God" has already limited our free will. If you agree this god has designed our bodies, minds and physical universe then our options are limited from the start. No one can live under water like a fish or survive on nothing but water and sunlight no matter how much they will it to be so. Likewise...
It's pointless to speculate when Jesus will return as the bible says no one knows the day or the time. Many of the prophecies predicting his return are vague and generalized. Things like earthquakes, famines, wars, and doubters have existed before and after Jesus. This allows every christian to...
Christians have believed the return of Jesus will be in their life times since the first generation of Christians. In one of the epistles, the writer advises not to bother getting married as the second coming of Jesus is imminent. There are also other statements in the epistles showing the...
Some but not all religious people believe they have a monopoly on some good quality because it feels good and appeals to a sort of tribalism. "Only good/smart/happy people are part of my group if you're not a part of it you can't be good/smart/happy."
Science has fed the hungry, cured diseases that killed and maimed millions, almost doubled our average life spans, and is now helping the lame walk and the blind see. Granted science has its consequences but I'll take modern science over what we had before.
Contrast this with the bible, which...
The only difficulties I have in explaining are how preconceived notions of some theists about atheists are wrong. For example, I know their god exists and I'm pretending not to so I can sin or rebel, I believe something came from nothing, I have no morals etc.
If time as we know it began with the initial expansion of the big bang, then it would be fair to say the universe always existed in one form or another. At leasts that's my understanding of the current model of the universe.
It depends on the standards of the deity and how effectively it communicates those standards. If the standards are outlandish or so poorly communicated that very few understand them then it wouldn't be fair or just.
I don't really believe in free will or determinism. I think they get the spot light a bit too often because of how polarizing they are. I find the concept of "free won't" rather persuasive.
That really depends on the actions it takes and what I would get for worshiping it. It could be indifferent but take little action to cause suffering or it could cause large amounts of suffering for its own reasons. If it's perfectly indifferent, I don't get the satisfaction of knowing the...
We'd still have plenty of choice. Being unable to choose for example, to kill our neighbors because we want their stuff, we can choose to get a better job, sell our things to get what we want, or just get over it. On top of many other near infinite choices.
If evil is the absence of God then...