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The world needs people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Pope Francis, and the Dalai Lama.

I believe I need to hear all sides to synthesize information and decide what makes sense to me....

To me the distinction is whether or not one is at least open to the possibility of a transcendent reality beyond the physical reality we percieve.

Anyone who has written off the possibility seems...

A doodle is definitely significant, but it's hard to interpret whether it has any higher spiritual or transcendent meaning. Or whether it was just doodling or aesthetic adornment.

I definitely...

Holy roller is a cliche too, but I use it without mercy!

Unless I am mistaken, Richard Dawkins embraced the concept of militant atheist. As did the New Atheist movement. The Soviet Union...

I think it took about three centuries for christians to decide what the meaning and significance of Jesus' life was. Even at the time of the gospels in the first century it was an open question.

In Gospel of John, Jesus insinuates he is coeternal with God. His physical body was ephemeral, but not Christ.

I think it's interesting that it wasn't until the Gospel of John that Jesus was...

I think there are some questions that are not resolvable by scientific experiments, visual observation, or mathmatical equations.

That doesn't mean they aren't legitimate questions.

Thanks, good point and I have heard of those.

The Neanderthalis burial as I understand it is controversial, not secure science. Some researchers think pollen could have been introduced by...

Africa was never glaciated by ice sheets, and the earliest symbolic rock art found in Africa is from the upper Paleolithic. That's 150k years after the appearance of the first homo sapiens.

Absent...

I don't think there is any direct evidence of deities or a transcendental reality either.

Homo sapiens have been around 200k years at least. Symbolic painting and clay fertility figurines only blinked into existence in the last 50k years in the upper Paleolithic. And it seemed to have...

^^^ Jew- hating antisemite.

I believe that evolution might ultimately favor intelligence. Predators have to be intelligent. Chimpanzees, dolphins, wolves are all intelligent.

I don't see any Darwinian basis for symbolic art,...

Makes sense to me.

A perfect storm had to align to create complex matter and biology in this universe. Maybe it's sheer coincidence, maybe not.

Something switched on in homo sapiens brains...

:whoa:

This is the third time in four days the elderly Trump has dozed off, and this isn't a science policy conference. This is a court proceeding to determine if Trump looses his freedom

Yikes! :laugh:


Republican congressman Adam Kingzinger said Trump smells like a combination of body odor, farts, and makeup products.

It's just a matter of time before this elderly man starts snoring in court.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sleepy-don-dozes-off-in-court-again

Having discussions with his own socks is off the edge of the map.

Some defective individuals like Trump and IntoTheNight
must be missing the gene that makes people feel shame for being wrong so often.

Congratulations to Mike for telling the Kremlin wing of the Republican party to piss off

I align more closely with agnostic, though labels have weaknesses

It's perfectly legitimate to believe life has no meaning, and it is a question I have to ask myself if I am being authentic.

The materialists and and reductionists believe there is no higher...

The most militant of atheists believe the Gospels are a later fabrication that invented the character Jesus and the things he said

The most fundamentalist of holy rollers believe the bible is...

I'm not sure religion is the "perfect" scaffolding for evil to take control. Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr. don't seem evil. There hasn't been a major war of religion in 500...