The word "doctrine" seems a bit harsh.
I'll give you this: I'm an atheist and believe there are no deities. I also don't believe in deities. About as much as any Christian doesn't believe in Quetzlecoatl.
Here's the thing: atheists crop up in any religion. Atheists from Muslim nations...
Thanks for taking over. Heh :)
It was fun, dropping in on the believers. I think that's as far as I'm going to go, though.
I can only take the ignorance and arrogance so long . . . sometimes you need to bang your head against a wall, but it's probably more fun to stop.
Have a good one!
Nonsense.
If you don't understand that doctrine to be equal to any other religious doctrine, you go right ahead and believe you've found the "one, true religion." Like every other believer of every other religion on the planet, throughout history.
The great sociologist Durkheim wrote "All...
Ah, so you don't have objective evidence. If you did, it would be accepted by all. What you have is called "subjective evidence."
That's fine, we're all subjective experiencing beings. My previous argument stands correct and uncontested.
Re: the insanity urban myth, that's actually false...
So you are walking back your claims to objective evidence?
Are you agreeing with my previous statement that your religious experiences are entirely subjective ones, like other believers of other religions?
Now you're making an objective claim. "It is not true because I believe it is true, it is either true or not."
But you do not appeal to objective evidence. Ergo, you are making subjective claims to truth, not objective ones.
Please present your objectively true evidence, I'd love to hear it!
Your beliefs aren't human universals. They're only real for you and other fellow believers. But you project them onto everyone without more than "because I say so!"
So, I dismiss your claims.
Religion has zero predictive power. Scientific explanatory models that are confirmed have great predictive power.
1. Ok, sounds good!
2. The purpose of physical reality?
Uhm, what?
3. Spiritual reality = fiction. Hence, it can't be measured. Zero validity.
4. Humans weren't created. We...
If you were humble, you wouldn't be making authoritative statements about the afterlife that you have no way of knowing.
You don't know more than anyone else what happens to us when we die. You're basically repeating mythological claims at us as if they were valid.
By now you've probably...
If it's just my personal opinion that religious claims to reality have zero validity, please give me the religious claims that contradict me!
I'd love to know them!
Also the above is wise.
We're all subjective beings who mistake our subjective experience for objective reality. So, yes, what you're telling me is real for you.