Religions are mostly wrong

[Blackwater Lunchbreak]

There's zero chance of a pluralistic society in North America or western Europe ever becoming a real theocracy.

I don't think having a fixed moral framework is a bad thing. There is generally nearly universal agreement that humility, charity, mercy, non-violence, universal love is the target to shoot for, even if many fall short

Trump himself felt the social pressure to conform to a fixed moral framework, so much so that he set up a fake charitable foundation to create the impression he was conforming to at least some moral expectations

what do you call fake 'climate science' energy totalitarianism?

[BidenPresident]

Jews, Hindus, High Protestants, Unitarians, and Buddhists tend to have the most education.

Atheists and agnostics are below them.

At the bottom are the reformed Protestants, Lutherans, Baptists, Catholics, Mormons.

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...gion+education

you're dumb

[Doc Dutch]

you're dumb

....and you expect intelligent, mature and educated people to believe you are not simply a pissed off, lonely 20something female college dropout?

[BidenPresident]

Doc Dutch=Asshole Stalker

[Doc Dutch]

Doc Dutch=Asshole Stalker

Translation: Damn you, Dutch! How do you do it???

Experience and education, ma'am.

It's basically an application of the Imitation Game made famous by Alan Turing's computer intelligence research.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18475646

The Imitation Game

In fact, Turing well understood the need for empirical evidence, proposing what has become known as the Turing Test to determine if a machine was capable of thinking. The test was an adaptation of a Victorian-style competition called the imitation game.

It involves secluding a man and woman from an interrogator who has to guess which is which by asking questions and studying written replies.

The man aims to fool the interrogator, while the woman tries to help him.

In the Turing Test, a computer program replaces the man. Turing asked: "Will the interrogator decide wrongly as often when the game is played like this as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman."

Effectively, the test studies whether the interrogator can determine which is computer and which is human (although Turing did not explicitly say that the interrogator should be told that one of the respondents was a computer it seems clear to me from his example questions that this was what he intended).

The idea was that if the questioner could not tell the difference between human and machine, the computer would be considered to be thinking.

[BidenPresident]

Doc Dutch=Asshole Stalker

[Doc Dutch]

IMA LITTLE GIRL
IN A WOMAN-AGED BODY
ANGRY AND BITTER

Being angry is detrimental to your best interests, Ms. BP.

https://www.psypost.org/2021/01/a-ne...ormation-59061
A new study has found being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation

Human memory is prone to error — and new research provides evidence that anger can increase these errors. The new findings have been published in the scientific journal Experimental Psychology.

“My interest in the impact of anger on misinformation came from both real-world experience and research,” said study author Michael Greenstein, an assistant professor at Framingham State University.

“From the real-world side, there’s this phrase that people say — ‘don’t get emotional.’ That phrase is somewhat often used to describe anger and the idea that when you’re angry you’ll make poor decisions, which would also imply poor memory use.”

“From the research side, anger is an interesting emotion because it somewhat defies traditional classifications in that it’s a ‘negative’ emotion, but it impacts cognition in a lot of ways that are more similar to ‘positive’ emotions.”...

...The researchers found that anger did not impair the ability to recognize details actually present in the film. However, those in the anger condition were more susceptible to misinformation than those in the neutral condition. In other words, angry participants were more likely to misattribute details from the initial quiz to what they had seen in the film.

The researchers also found that participants in the anger condition tended to be more confident in the accuracy of their memories. But among those participants, increased confidence was associated with decreased accuracy. Among those in the neutral condition, in contrast, increased confidence was associated with increased accuracy..

[BidenPresident]

Doc Dutch=Asshole Stalker

[Truth Detector]

Mostly, not always. Mixed: common sense and cultural indoctrination.

What is common sense? Define it.

Disagreed. Social agreement is needed, not religion.

Moronic and meaningless claim.

[Truth Detector]

Russia is arguably the most Christian nation in Europe but a large fraction of their population think it's okay to bomb Ukrainian cities into smoldering piles of ash.

Link to your bullshit. Russia doesn't even make it into the top ten.

[Truth Detector]

Haters only want to hate, not answer honest questions.

My experience online is that they are either ignorant or mentally ill. In Perry and COgoat's instance, it's probably mental illness. In BP's case, a little of both.

Buy a mirror.

[Cypress]

Russia is arguably the most Christian nation in Europe but a large fraction of their population think it's okay to bomb Ukrainian cities into smoldering piles of ash.

Link to your bullshit! Russia doesn't even make it into the top ten!

"Russia emerges as Europe's most God-believing nation"

Two decades after the collapse of the USSR, history's most atheistic state, the vast majority of Russians attest to a belief in God – more than in any other European country – according to a new opinion poll. The survey, carried out in April by the independent Public Opinion Fund (FOM), found that 82 percent of Russians say they are religious believers, while just 13 percent say they do not believe in any deity

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Euro...lieving-nation

[Doc Dutch]

What is common sense? Define it.

Moronic and meaningless claim.

^^^
Is anyone really surprised that TD doesn't know the meaning of common sense? It doesn't surprise me.

Here, TD, let me help you understand what you clearly do not have...not that I blame the mentally ill for their inabilities to understand normal human behavior: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dict...common%20sense
sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts

[Melchizedek = Michael]

Doc Dutch=Asshole Stalker

Affirmative!

[Cypress]

If you really look at most of them, so many of the tenets & principles are from a "human" perspective, and tie into human emotions like fear & hate, and also human reactions to that, like worship & sacrifice.

It always begs the question: why do we put SO much on words that were written by ancient peoples, who had no understanding of the world or universe around them.

On a day to day basis, the vast majority of people today have no idea about quantum physics, thermodynamics, the basic principles of organic chemistry, and they can't explain why the sky is blue, why the ocean is salty, or what light and gravity really are as natural phenomena. The garden variety person is more literate and more trained in using technology today. But I don't think people today are vastly inherently and innately smarter than people 2000 years ago.

In saying religions are "mostly wrong", that requires some analysis.

If the idea is that the bible is supposed to be a historical and scientific document, then it is largely wrong.

The mythical and legendary aspects of religion are either beyond conformation or just plain wrong.

If religion is thought of as a way of living a human life in the context of a divine universal order, I don't think it's possible to say it is mostly wrong. It becomes subjective at that point. I really didn't find anything foolish from reading the Gospel of Luke, and the canonical texts of Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism because they contain a vision of right conduct and ethics that are so timeless, we have adopted them for ourselves even when we strip away the religious context.