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Goodheart

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4. There are many people today who deny that animals feel pain...

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Mon May 3, 2021, 11:26 AM

May 2021

for religious reasons, of course. Whether they believe such nonsense is a different matter, but I view their proposition as a case of having to adopt an absurdity in defense of their emotions.

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My simple steps to atheism [View all] Goodheart May 2021 OP

my path- evolutionary psychology mopinko May 2021 #1

I certainly agree Goodheart May 2021 #10

um. mopinko May 2021 #13

I think Darwin became an atheist after his research into evolution. Walleye May 2021 #2

Don't be too hard on Isaac Cartoonist May 2021 #3

That's a distinct possibility.... Goodheart May 2021 #6

It's well documented that Sir Isaac Newton was a devout believer localroger May 2021 #14

Hard to say exactly what his beliefs were Major Nikon May 2021 #17

Newton devoted significant energy to study of the Bible localroger May 2021 #18

There are many people today who deny that animals feel pain... Goodheart May 2021 #4

A logical person might point out that the thinking in one of the steps you outlined lapucelle May 2021 #5

Which step did I illogically bifurcate? Goodheart May 2021 #7

Your "either/or" premise assumes lapucelle May 2021 #8

I shortened my language when I said there were "only two possible states of god's existence" Goodheart May 2021 #9

Life must evolve past cruelty or it will destroy itself. n/t MarcA May 2021 #11

I believe there's a time in every atheist's life, Bayard May 2021 #12

the funny part is that "independent thinking" OriginalGeek May 2021 #16

I agree. I think I "out-grew" my religion. lucca18 May 2021 #15

for me, it is the massacres that happened in Europe, where Catholics killed Protestants, demigoddess May 2021 #19

For me it's simply the lack of evidence. Archae May 2021 #20

Actually, your first step should have been SCantiGOP May 2021 #21

Sure, whatever. Goodheart May 2021 #22

After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve May 2021 #23