Understanding Religion's Relationship To Human Social Systems

  As for reasons to believe in a literal, autonomously self-aware (mind-independent), "Being." ... who makes demands, threats, and promises ... via ancient rumors and modern arguments, ... circulated exclusively via mutually exclusive, competing religions, ... all of whom drown each other out as white noise in their shared sea of competing God-theories, ... I've heard all the claims. Or, at least the claims that are popular enough to have reached me. I've heard all of their respective apologetics. I've heard all the counterapologetics. -Including the counterclaims made by rival versions of "Christianity". I've understood them all, within the limits of my own intellectual and social capacity. At the same time, I am keenly aware that: nobody is ever under any moral obligation to listen long, seriously consider, or even worry about any of it. Is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a measure of a human's moral character, .... to...

Responding to this nonsense:  [ Link ] ---- My initial reply: Here is the test to see if you hold disdain for homosexuals: How would you feel about it if someone said Jesus had been gay? If the idea of it is offensive, then you do, in fact, look down on people for being gay. -- In reply to me, the religious guy in the video said this:  -- " your test is ridiculously stupid. Clearly the Bible teaches that fornication is sinful. And clearly Jesus taught about marriage that a man leaves his mother and father and Cleaves to his wife and the two become one flesh. Playing the mind game of what if Jesus was be gay is equivalent to say he was a refugee or something like that this is just the world talking and the narrative talking. It's just people with itching ears that want to hear what they want to hear. It is extremely easy to know that something is sinful and to love a person regardless of their sin. Unfortunately the so-called gay community does not seem to understand that . Or ...

  1 day ago "To adress this issue, first I'm talking from the perspective of islam, god is just and not all loving, god does not love the misguided or kufar.. and to adress the flood issue: in Islam if the bad deeds were common and the good is less, then the puinshment is gonna fall on all of the people of that area." -@user-fq5kg3eq8v ---------------- Reply from  @ApPersonaNonGrata 15 hours ago re 'god does not love the misguided" --- Misguided children  are the kids who need love the most. There's no need to violently drown "misguided" people. Guide them. Or stop complaining when they wander off on their own. ----------------- Reply from: @user-fq5kg3eq8v 11 hours ago ​ @ApPersonaNonGrata  you missed the point, I did not talk about children, in Islam the one who does not reach maturaty is considered sinless even if he did like a child who is not muslim, and the "drown misgusid people" yes there is, since they need it in an Islamic perspe...

  @aaronchandler2380 1 day ago To a Christian, I really don’t think it matters whether it’s true or not. 19 Reply @aleguitarra 7 hours ago Because it works? Reply @Nash_son_of_Zeus 6 hours ago ​  @aleguitarra  because it's easier to cast all of your shortcomings and flaws onto a god who forgives you of everything than it is for you to work on yourself and take full accountability. 2 Reply @aleguitarra 6 hours ago ​  @Nash_son_of_Zeus  I know people who changed a lot... So... Somehow it works for many... Reply @ApPersonaNonGrata 0 seconds ago ​  @aleguitarra  Fair point. But ... The same thing works for people converting to Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and even atheism. For example, Derek Lambert (of Mythvision) had to de-convert from Christianity to non-theism, to kick his heroin addiction, and get his life together. The differences: Unlike Christianity, ... 1. Nobody pretends that the healing potential of atheism counts as *proof* that athei...