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Friday, February 27, 2015
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A Curious Duality
A Curious Duality
Fundamentalist religion posits that the world is
intelligently designed, yet fundamentalism itself evolves along Darwinian
lines, with random variation and natural selection. These religions choose
their beliefs at random, and those with the fittest beliefs survive. This can
be seen in the capricious irrationality of fundamentalist doctrine and
practice, combined with the unexpected practicality of those irrational
doctrines and practices.
Meanwhile, science posits that the world evolves along
Darwinian lines, with random variation and natural selection; yet science is
(at least putatively) intelligently designed!
Thursday, February 19, 2015
On God's Mercy
Proof of
God’s Mercy Whether or Not Existent
If
God exists, then God is infinitely merciful towards ignorant blasphemers; for
otherwise there would not be a cleric on Earth who would survive his first
sermon.
If
God does not exist, then all adjectives vacuously apply to any God (for no
counter-examples exist); so again, infinitely merciful.
So
God is infinitely merciful to foolishly insulting theologians whether or not
God exists! I guess that covers me, too. Phew!
And
as for God’s self-appointed theocratic henchmen: they take action that God does
not; so evidently they think themselves wiser and more powerful than God.
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