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Both your religions are cults. I have no religion. :)

I don't know, but someday we are doing to find out... https://www.myce.com/other/discover-these-animals-that-were-created-by-humans-92587/ ...and that's not even talking about artificial intelligence.

Yes, it does. Because humans are the arbiter of human ethics. And wolves are the arbiter of wolf ethics - which are the different from human ethics because they are based on wolf physiology.

I agree with the concept of the Jesus cult, aka Christ cult, aka Christianity. However, Christ is a manufactured persona, not the real historical person with that name. It the persona of all the things written about him, and all the things people say about him today. As he is a martyr, the...

All thought and behavior, including homosexuality, is regulated by the physical structure of the brain. The physical structure of the brain is founded in genetics and altered by its environment through development and experience. We alter our brain every time we experience anything. It seems...

I think the part of the meaning of cult that is most focused on is 'dangerous beliefs'. The word 'cult' gets attached to more standard and accepted religions by those people who detect 'dangerous beliefs' in those institutions, such as patriarchy, misogyny and bigotry. The size is less of a...

The FLDS had lots of real estate. Since their kids were taken by CPS, who were required to provide them special deconditioning care because they had been taught to be terrified of the color red and to be terrified of outsiders - there is a somewhat objective standard that their beliefs were...

Even if a soul existed, that does not mean there is any connection to God. It would just be an avenue of research for scientists to determine whether they can download the soul into some sort of alternative containment device when the mortal body dies -- sort of like the famous heads in jars in...

If you don't know what morality is, then you don't know it when you see it. People wouldn't notice that all the cases were 'immoral' because they don't yet know what moral is.... ... because God hasn't told them what the universal standard of moral is ... because God had not yet introduced...

My take on an omnipotent god is that the god either utilizes his omnipotence on humans in current times, or he does not. If god does not use his omnipotence on humans in current times, then omnipotence is irrelevant. Stop. It doesn't matter if it exists or not, in general. If there is no...

The stochastic range of 'morality' might be defined by the human tolerance to empathic response in which the brain observes a situation and tries to mimic the experience, and the ability of humans to be aware of and predict the suffering of others through this mechanism. It would vary from...

I had one person tell me that worship is not a necessary characteristic of a god (may be right, may be wrong). So, this also goes back to the eternal question, that we can't prove a god until we can define one. I have concluded that a deity is an entity that I personally choose to classify as a...

Another question is whether humans are even capable of accepting an external definition of morality. If an entity struck people dead for having blowjobs, and spared people who had Missionary style sex, that is my definition of a deranged psychotic serial killer - and many would share that view...

This is a circular argument. We cannot conclude on observing a pattern of infection, that this pattern proves both God and a universal standard for morality. Only after we have confirmed God, can we define morality based on what God says it is. But - that only holds true if a person...

If I walk into a room and say my car won't start and someone comes and jumps it off, is he indistinguishable from a god? The fact that an entity responds to a need or an appeal does not indicate godhood. So, we are left with the fact that we 'prayed' and that an alien intercepted and understood...

The God of Gaps both shrinks and expands every time we learn something new. While we may explain one phenomenon that God was previously getting credit for, we open up another universe. When we discover another atomic level, the God particle - or that instead of just being candles in the sky...

You would have to have a universal concept of morality - which does not exist. Christians, for instance, vary in terms of some being pro-life and some pro-choice, or some are accepting of LGBT. Due to a lack of universal standard of morality, the proposed scenario would not be persuasive...

Lacking an alternate explanation is not proof of anything. If you look back at history, you will find many things for which people lacked an alternate explanation and assumed God, such as volcanoes. We now know that there is a better explanation. 'Evidence of God' consists of a number of...