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trotsky

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10. That's the key question, and one that a religious believer can't answer.

Reply to Phillip McCleod (Reply #9)

Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:29 PM

Apr 2013

It's a point that has been driven home by a number of non-believers - here is Greta Christina's most excellent summary:

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2009/11/armor-of-god.html

I'm realizing that everything I've ever written about religion's harm boils down to one thing.

It's this:

Religion is ultimately dependent on belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die.

It therefore has no reality check.

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i wanted this out there before all the facts were in.. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #9

That's the key question, and one that a religious believer can't answer. trotsky Apr 2013 #10

i love greta. but when i she got the blog at freethoughtblogs.. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #13

Do you equate the term fundamentalist with violent religious extremism? Leontius Apr 2013 #11

equate? hell no. correlate? hell YES. \n Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #12