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  1. Bacle

    Religion Religion, Secularism, and Morality

    Well one thing to consider is that recent astronomical and quantum physics findings seem to suggest we may not be the first, or only, universe to exist. That doesn't disprove anything related to the divine, as the divine is not something that can be falsified by the scientific method, but it...
  2. Bacle

    Religion Religion, Secularism, and Morality

    I'm agnostic in that I believe there is a divine force in the universe, and that their is something beyond this life besides nothingness. The exact nature of said divine and afterlife are where I am not convinced any religion represents or understands the totality of it. That there is life on...
  3. Bacle

    Religion Religion, Secularism, and Morality

    I said hair color, not hair style. The point however is the same. Look, I'm an agnostic myself, and I understand where a lot of atheists are coming from. The only way most atheists will change their mind is if they experience the power of the divine themelves and are open to recognizing it...
  4. Bacle

    Religion Religion, Secularism, and Morality

    This is why the whole mess will just go round in circles; atheism is a 'religion' the same way baldness is a 'hair color'. Communism and socialism are ideologies unto themselves; they are only 'atheistic' in that they do not look for metaphysical justification for their ideologies.
  5. Bacle

    Religion Religion, Secularism, and Morality

    A lot of religious tenets seem to rely on false assumptions or false reasoning for why humans are the way we are. The conceit that religion is needed for there to be morals, and that humanity is greater than other animals and the natural world in some mystical way, seems to be central to a lot...
  6. Bacle

    Religion Religion, Secularism, and Morality

    To be fair, most religions have bloody and dark histories to them that the clerics and priests prefer not to teach to thier flocks. Which is why I think a lot of religious folk do not get how the history of bloodshed for religious/psuedo-religious reasons turns people off to organized religion...
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