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  1. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    I haven't done any of these things of course and neither have you. I just by default oppose doctors killing their patients that would otherwise live a normal lifespan and you apparently don't. I'm curious though, how would you react if this woman were your own family member or someone you loved...
  2. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    Cancer and broken bones are objectively visible and quantifiable things. Some extreme mental conditions like schizophrenia or psychopathy are also and can be detected on brain scans. Others (and the majority of mental illnesses) like ADD, OCD, depression, and anxiety are subjectively diagnosed...
  3. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    No, you are misrepresenting me. Re-read what I said in post #380. I said many mental health conditions are defined by subjective criteria and are not objectively real, not all. Apparently once you saw the words "subjective" or "not real," you reacted emotionally to the point where you could no...
  4. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    Hopefully the so-called doctors who invent things like this will be the first to test them out.
  5. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    Some mental health conditions have objectively measurable characteristics, yes, but the vast majority do not.
  6. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    So the person who believes doctors should be able to kill their patients because of labels they assigned to them has shamed me for advocating for those patients. Wow, I feel so deeply ashamed and remorseful. NOT!
  7. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    I never said that
  8. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    Ahh, okay. So my suggestion that we should not label people with subjectively defined incurable illnesses and instead encourage them to achieve their dreams and not give up hope is bad for their recovery, but your suggestion that we should label them as hopelessly and incurably sick and let...
  9. Rational Agnostic

    Its not euthanasia, its suicide.

    Many of these mental "diseases" that you are alluding to are just labels invented in the last century or two that are given to people who display behaviors that fall into some humanmade categories. They are not actually objectively real or measurable. Do you think that perhaps doctors are doing...
  10. Rational Agnostic

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    That's only a refutation of a very specific type of god.
  11. Rational Agnostic

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    Can you demonstrate this as a fact? The only thing I take as a certainty is the existence of consciousness and the non-existence of things that are direct contradictions (square circles or triangles with four sides for example). Can you demonstrate that the existence of *any* god would result in...
  12. Rational Agnostic

    How Much Do You Doubt God's Existence?

    Interesting questions, thanks for starting this thread. I find it difficult to assign a probability to things like this. What would it feel like to be 90% sure God exists or doesn't exist, for example? I really don't know how you can define or quantify that.
  13. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    I didn't intentionally leave out details of the story, I just didn't know all the details and frankly I don't really care that much about the details either. I want to be clear, I don't condone any type of harassment of women at all. I still think Dawkins made a good point, I'll admit that he...
  14. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    I don't think Islam is a red herring--the point is that the skeptic community has done a lot of good for women and fought against religious misogyny and yet she chose to focus on the fact that a guy at a skeptic event asked her out instead. Or do you think it's wrong for a man to ask a woman out...
  15. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    Well, semantics aside, I don't think there was anything wrong with what he said and I agree with the point he was trying to make. People who claim to be feminists but think the average American guy asking a woman out politely is the problem but don't address the obvious misogyny of guys like the...
  16. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    That's not at all what he was doing. He was using sarcasm to make a point about how ridiculous it was for her to call getting politely asked out by a man "harassment" when there is actual, horrific treatment of women in Muslim-dominated countries that most feminists of that time didn't even...
  17. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    From Wikipedia: A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. This sounds a lot like most religious beliefs to me...
  18. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    I don't see Dawkins as hostile--he doesn't mock or belittle people, he just speaks his mind and doesn't make any apologies about it, and so has offended many people because of it. For me, it's refreshing to see someone say what they think.
  19. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    I had always enjoyed listening to Dr. Richard Dawkins, even when I was a devout Christian believer praying to God 10-15+ times per day. I took the Christian faith very, very seriously and it consumed most of my free time, but I couldn't help but find myself enthralled with Dr. Dawkins' lucidity...
  20. Rational Agnostic

    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    I mean, I don't know because I don't know who he was calling a hypocrite. It's plain to see I'm not the hypocrite as I'm definitely not labelling myself as religious.
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