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> For a positivist, you’re not very strong on logic. When the ad hominems start I know I'm on the right track > The rock has no will / The god, real or not, is a being with a will.…

>> Sure, you can use superstition as a slur for things you don’t believe in. > I’m not dictating what the word means That is precisely what you are doing by trying to insinuate tha…

> In your example the difference is that the rock effect is automatic, like gravity, but the god is a sentient being that has a will. There is no difference. This is the fallacy of…

You're not the gatekeeper of words. Christianity and Islam are both superstitions.

> A person believes something that results in superstition. This definition states that superstition creates itself. This is nonsense. Nothing is "created" when someone says someth…

I touch (swear an oath and break it to) a rock (a god) and I receive luck (anger). Both are superstitions. The rock example is actually less superstitious because rocks actually ex…

> Religion and superstition are different concepts. Please point to the part in my original response where I said religion and superstition are the same concept. I said believing i…

>The founders saw it necessary that people have a religious based moral system. The same system and values that they based the government on. In the system of government they creat…

Believing that there is a god to promise something to is the definition of superstition.

The Catholic Church declaring that a collection of fictional stories are the word of god and 1.345 billion people believing that does not make the collection of stories not fiction…

> In the 1960s the army, with support from the U.S. CIA, committed a mass slaughter of half a million suspected communists. In 1998 there was a huge series of riots against ethnic …

> Government is not bound by what is scientifically demonstrated You're implying: something is scientifically demonstrated -> government is bound by it What I said was: government …

> How would you differentiate this argument for abortion versus for slavery? Slavery unambiguously violates the autonomy of another human being. If it could be demonstrated scienti…

> This ruling does not prohibit anything Missouri just banned abortion as a result of this being overturned, so yes, it does. > other people's beliefs are entirely a sufficient con…

I don't give a shit what other people believe. People believing in things is not a sufficient condition for the government to prohibit something.

> If you believe that life begins at conception Someone believing life begins at conception is a reason for THEM to not get an abortion, it is not a reason for the government to ou…

Just a few thoughts. > I think a much better argument is to point at countries that decriminalized drugs and didn't see an increase in crime. I agree. > we've already concluded tha…

>There are other substances that most people really don't think should be accessible to everyone This is not how a free society operates. I choose what I put into my body and not y…

The first integral can be solved replacing the integrand with a series of sort. Notice that the expression inside the logarithm has zeros at $\alpha = e^{\pm ix}$ So we can rewrite…

I thought this was an April Fool's joke. It is frightening there are people that think giving the State another reason to fine, harass, and imprison people is an actual solution to…

> You don't believe that we can access meaningful knowledge about the world through logic? And there it is, the pathetic strawman. The last refuge of a person with nothing intellig…

> the problem is actually a philosophical one. This is what I would say too if I had no evidence for the things I was claiming exist. > your stance is that God doesn't exist becaus…

> "that you take your atheism on faith, too." This is a nonsensical statement. Atheism is a recognition that there is zero evidence for the existence of any gods. It requires no fa…

Great news. At some point, hopefully humanity will realize religions are the myths of our less enlightened ancestors and we can all move on to something more interesting and produc…

> 38,000 people die annually in auto accidents... This argument is nonsensical. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as