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It's how they used the word back then and too many persons still do. Probably most atheists are spiritual but few would use the word. IMO if they're able to be selfless and rapt with wonder at nature, science, art, et al, what more's needed? I rarely encounter a spiritual christian though...

No he wasn't, he was one of the enlightenment's "founding fathers" of secularism and atheism. Don't believe the people that come here telling you what Spinoza said. They don't know either. Spinoza used the word "God" utterly differently from supernaturalist theists. One aspect of his project...

...They start with the premise that physics is true. So for a phenomenon to "really exist", it has to be accounted for in physics. Else it only *seems" to exist but doesn't really. (Nevermind that physics isn't designed to know all reality, cuz they also assume positivism is true and positivism...

Here's a petition, signed by over 100k people so far: https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-judge-aileen-cannon-must-recuse-herself-from-trumps-case-2 There are half-dozen other petitions around. This is the one getting the most sigs.

After your personal info, here are details needed for the form: Name of Judge: Judge Aileen Cannon Court: US District Court for the District of Florida Does complaint concern behavior of judge in a particular lawsuit: (check Yes) Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Florida (put this...

If you're pissed off that Aileen Cannon postponed Trump's documents case and feel powerless, there is something even we mere citizens can do. Glenn Kirschner explained the process of downloading a "Complaint of Judicial Misconduct" form and filling it out. Mr. Kirschner's video explaining it...

Why bother matching "the system around us" (do you mean the ecosphere?) to any theism classification? What's in-between atheism and theism? They're an absolute binary. IMV these terms describe people, not systems in nature. If you believe in gods, that's theism and so you're a theist. If you...

Are brain tumors in children 1) part of "everything that happens" or 2) not part of "everything that happens"? It's one or the other. What would Christians model their God on if they didn't have examples of intention/agency within the universe? No, your answer was and is God created the asteroid.

Inclined doesn't mean want. The relevant definition here for "inclined" is "have a tendency to do something". Like you, mistaken people aren't inclined to want to know that they make mistakes so they often get defensive about it instead of try to learn from their mistakes. No it isn't. You...

An effort at reason is being asked of you... why can't you answer? Are people wrong to assume you have some reasoning that goes along with the assertion? Or is blind faith belief the only justification?

So? Look who said there's scientific evidence for God:

Our mental picture of what nature is determines our attitudes and behaviors towards nature and one another. What we think of the world is how we treat the world. As we all know, thinking a God exists has its effects on the believer's behaviors. Humans are believers, what they believe determines...

Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I knew a kid who was EXACTLY like Arnie when I was a kid. All the same hyper-ness and most of the same little quirks. DiCaprio so entirely embodied that, down to the tiniest details (like blinking out of sequence a couple times, for one example)...

This argument does nothing to fix the broken concept. If a god exists and stands by while a person dying of cancer suffers, and the god can see there's nothing the dying person can learn from the torment he's going through, then the god's committing an act of evil to let the suffering continue...

It's the existence of the idea of an all-good God that made/oversees a universe with suffering in it that creates the problem of evil. That problem applies to the idea. The PoE is a logical consequence of the idea of an all-good God. The idea exists, so the problem with the idea exists. No...

Will "universe" do? I think cosmological panpsychism is at least "barking up the right tree". It proposes that consciousness is ubiquitous throughout the matter of the universe so that the universe is in effect an evolving brain. This opens up the possibility for teleology and an explanation...

But does everyone share the rule to not kill others, or to not "other" others? The commandment seems to be a rule with no exceptions to it. If Jews and Christians believe the commandment is from God and that it has no exceptions, then they're hypocrites to be ok with the killing of others. But...

That's a late 19th century miner's hammer found in a deposit of travertine. And about the website you linked to: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/archaeology-world/

Imitation is why God was described as a creator. Humans were deemed to be creators first. Then when a myth was made with a human-like god in it, the human trait of intentional creativity was assigned to that character. The character is a creator god because it's made in the image of humans. You...

When Trump mangles a word, his brain is switching the organization of the word around and trying to settle on something that sounds like the word his brain is trying and failing to form. This is called phonemic paraphasia. The cause of this is brain damage. It cannot be demonstrated more finally...