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  1. Valjean

    DeSantis Trying to Force Chaplains in Schools

    Are we talking about trade schooling, or higher education? So students and universities should take no interest in the social, political or environmental issues of the day? Attempts at change or improvement should be suppressed?
  2. Valjean

    DeSantis Trying to Force Chaplains in Schools

    What are you calling activism? It sounds like a pretty broad category.
  3. Valjean

    If God incarnation, how do you know it is really Him ?

    So you believe because he says so, because his words agree with a familiar narrative, or because the narrative is appealing to you? How would this be evidence, unless the words correspond with observable, measurable, testable facts? I agree, and art is in the eye of the beholder; subject to...
  4. Valjean

    Revelation or Psychosis?

    Sounds like a self-induced religious fugue; whether a product of a serious mental disorder or not I've no idea. However, these are neither unusual nor objective evidence of an ontological reality. The experience tends to confirm the mythology familiar to the experiencer. Christians see/hear...
  5. Valjean

    “Hindus fall because they worship lesser gods.” Abrahamics are trampling Hindus. Can you help me understand?

    I asked: "Does a country's or religion's greatness derive from its political or military prowess?" You say yes. I disagree. A country is a mutual aid society; a self-help co-op. Countries derive from the Social Contract. Their primary function is to promote the welfare and prosperity of their...
  6. Valjean

    “Hindus fall because they worship lesser gods.” Abrahamics are trampling Hindus. Can you help me understand?

    Gandhi wasn't into the abstruse, Vedantic philosophy of Shankara. He was more a devout, popular Hindu and political activist. He treated the world as Real. Gandhi promoted the peaceful coexistence of Hindus and Muslims. It was Jinnah and his Muslim league who stirred up the religious discord...
  7. Valjean

    “Hindus fall because they worship lesser gods.” Abrahamics are trampling Hindus. Can you help me understand?

    Does a country's or religion's greatness derive from its political or military prowess?
  8. Valjean

    The Democrat party officially has its own senator cat burglar.....

    What the heck is a "Democrat party?
  9. Valjean

    For our creators we are not important enough for an afterlife.

    What, exactly, is this "something greater" you mention, and what compels us to believe in it? We have voluminous evidence of how we came to be, but none of it necessitates any intentional creation by a conscious creator. We are able to date pre-Mesozoic things, and I don't understand why you...
  10. Valjean

    I'm no anti-semite

    Consider: Arabs are Semites, too, and considering the degree of European admixture in Israel's Jewish population, Arabs are probably more genetically Semitic than the Jewish Israelis. So where's the rub: Religion, genetics, or behavior?
  11. Valjean

    Revelation or Psychosis?

    If you're using it as epistemic tool, to assess reality, then you are substituting emotion for intellect. and attributing it to some nebulous stuff you're calling "spirit." Think about it: Given a certain set of objective, measurable facts, intellect will usually yield a pretty consistent...
  12. Valjean

    Revelation or Psychosis?

    If faith were well founded it wouldn't be faith; it would be knowledge. Poorly evidenced belief can, indeed, be influential, bur the ability to motivate and ontological reality don't correlate.
  13. Valjean

    Revelation or Psychosis?

    Feelings are as varied and unreliable as hallucinations. It's objective, demonstrable evidence that launched the explosion of knowledge and technology that created the world we now live in. For thousands of years we had visions and revelations. They got us nowhere. Knowledge and technology...
  14. Valjean

    Revelation or Psychosis?

    Hallucinations aren't that uncommon, and delusions are practically the rule. How common are hallucinations? People accepting these 'revelations' as real and important are common, as well. Sometimes individuals and social situations are such that these hallucinations and interpretations are...
  15. Valjean

    Scientists say...

    How is that hard to grasp? If there's little evidence for a thing it might or might not exist. At one time both gorillas and unicorns were thought to be mere legends. Some people declared that both positively didn't exist. They were the "no god exists" equivalents. Others said they'd withhold...
  16. Valjean

    Scientists say...

    But those claiming revelation make thousands of different, contradictory claims. This doesn't evidence a reliable method. Scientific findings, on the other hand, are consistent and produce consensus.
  17. Valjean

    Scientists say...

    Mutations and other selections do accumulate. Any genetic variations retained by natural selection accumulate -- that's what selection is; preferential accumulation of genetic variations, whether from mutation or reproductive variation. What width of classification does "kind" correspond to...
  18. Valjean

    Scientists say...

    Beginnings are familiar aspects of lived reality. Stories and legends almost always presuppose beginnings. Such a presumption can hardly be attributed to special revelation.
  19. Valjean

    If God incarnation, how do you know it is really Him ?

    If God exist He's given no clear indication of His objectives, much less His existence. There are a thousand different religions outlining a thousand different Gods with a thousand different objectives. If any god exist, he apparently does not care whether we're aware of hime or his objectives...
  20. Valjean

    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    And you say God does not care to provide such evidence, so wouldn't the reasonable thing to do would be to defer belief till He does? Great! What is it?
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