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If you ask that of 'Leftists' then why ask me? Nevertheless, I defer to H4M's excellent point, but just to say your question might be more appropriately directed toward religious people and communities who express their love and allegiance to God before country. The cynical and contradictory...

Religion is an excuse to feign accountability. Always has been. It often causes bad outcomes and helps weaken communities. Many religious people will divide communities and families between those who do fall for their nonsense and those who don't. Fortunately in this country, law comes before...

Responding in kind . Your comments below in a nice shitty brown color. No disrespect. "I sure one could twist the U.S. Constitution in the same way. Democracy is frequently used as an excuse to go kill a bunch of people, right?" Right. You'd have to twist the Constitution. But you don't have...

You cannot be serious. Deuteronomy If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether...

You must surely be correct. At the heart of all religious systems is mysticism; the claim that it is possible to have communion with an ultimate reality. It's a key defining aspect. In that regard Buddhism is no different to any other religion. Even where some Buddhists do not support the...

Yet you just put that lie out there as a Buddhist.

Just to be clear That is not true. During the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror was responsible for around 1,600 executions principally due to one infamous religious man, Robespierre. It was he who strongly opposed the de-Christianization of France, as it was being perceived at that...

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil— that takes religion. No one has been murdered in the name of atheism.Throughout history people have been and still are murdered in the name of religion. In yet more fairness, Mr...

I think Quantum Entanglement goes quite a long way towards explaining that one. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1328.html :thumbsup:

I'm not so sure. Quantum events occur all the time naturally and spontaneously without cause.

Without existence, nothing , including creation, or God, can exist. It is because existence exists, creation exists. The all powerful God doesn't exist as it needs existence as predicate to exist before it can. :)

That's not how science works and you should know better. The proposals Nir Shaviv, Salby, Moore et al come up with are simplistic and basic. Among scientists, those kind of ideas notions and assumptions, become no longer relevant, as during basic early stages of the scientific process, such...

Translation: "dammit you got me there" No none. No better than the seal in this thread does. Which is not at all.

Yes, you were indeed very much off topic. But since you "do enjoy our talks", I thought it only polite to respond. bye bye. Better luck next time.:)

I have not disputed the seal 's 2,700 year old provenance or that it could not have "belonged to the governor of the city". That is after all what archeologists are reported to have said. However the seal itself does not appear nor is said to be inscribed with any city name or particular...

as the great majority once said to the minority opposing slavery.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg

Indeed, yet on the other hand without religion one might also consider the possibility that things would be much better today. Who knows. Nevertheless, one thing which does seem to have been learned, since the Enlightenment and although very slowly, is that it is far better on the whole for...

:D Seriously!? What are you 5 ? Now you know how to change font size. You're welcome. You could have just said thanks. Or you could have just said when you made the post that you don't mean to convey any shout or other emphasis by posting words directed to me in the largest possible f'kn font...

The obligation is to respect the right for anyone to hold a belief. It is not the obligation to respect the belief anyone holds. I would suggest there is nothing more likely to hurt other peoples feelings than the denial of free and open criticism of belief and ideas. And don't forget...