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Simply relying upon plausibility does not cut it as a historical method "Historical method" is hardly relevant to psychedelic esotericism, the crucial issue here is the hermeneutics of religion. When deciding how religion is best interpreted, the relative plausibility of the different int...

Which theism is correct? I'm speaking on a general level as I said in the OP. The Catholic churches handling of world-wide child sexual abuse (and other abuses) suggests otherwise. Firstly, is such a thing really required by theism? That they act badly? I suppose theism will support the existence o...

I'm interested in any reasons to (reasonably) want theism to be false? b/c theism is unrealistic, distracting, and costly to societies. How does that make sense? "theism is unrealistic so we should want it to be false"? "theism is distracting so we should want it to be false"? I...

I'm thinking of things like, "I wouldn't want a God to exist, because an all knowing God would destroy all privacy". What here comes to my mind is, that an all knowing god cannot be allmighty. If God is all knowing, then all processes are defined (fixed?) in the universe, from the big ban...

My guess is that simple cognitive biases would be the most broadly applicable (confirmation bias, e.g.). I'm not sure where this is going, though, which might affect the genuine utility of the answers we can come up with. ?? I'm thinking of things like, "I wouldn't want a God to exist, because...

I'm interested in any reasons to (reasonably) want theism to be false? I'm not talking about certain versions of theism, like Calvinist Christianity, or the doctrine of "eternal conscious torment", or the "god of the Bible"; but I'm rather asking about theism on a more general le...

Quoting Marcel Brass from an interview: "First of all, I do not really think that neuroscience will solve the old philosophical problem whether free will exists or not. And I’m not even sure whether any science will solve this problem. But neuroscience can inform us about the basis of our exper...

Do we have free will? Researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making January 4, 2016 http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-free-mechanisms-involved-decision-making.html Our choices seem to be freer than previously thought. Using computer-based brain experiments, researchers from Charité - U...

Something I came across regarding the left and Islamic terror... Quote: "It must be incredibly frustrating as an Islamic terrorist not to have your views and motives taken seriously by the societies you terrorize, even after you have explicitly and repeatedly stated them. Even worse, those on t...

Continued... Academic Lies about Jizya Yet if Muslims—from Islamic State jihadis to Egyptian university professors—know the truth about jizya, the West is today oblivious, thanks to its leading authorities on Islam: Western academics and other “experts” and talking heads. Consider the following exce...