Recent content by Torin

Putin isn't necessarily stupid, but he is under a lot of pressure to conquer Ukraine. It would be embarrassing for him if he did not succeed at the goals he set when he launched the war. As a dictator he is also likely to be surrounded by yes-men who fear that if they disagree with Putin, they...

Careful, you'll sprain your ankle dancing that hard on the man's grave. :rolleyes:

Here are a couple of quick resources on Dennett's philosophical ideas, for the curious. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#Philosophical_views Faculty webpage: https://sites.tufts.edu/cogstud/daniel-dennett/

I knew about this yesterday, but did not post due to certain members' penchant for dancing on graves. The Medieval poet Dante put virtuous pagans in the highest level of his hell, which was basically a big eternal debate society with Plato, Aristotle, and other thinkers. If Dennett does have to...

I haven't read it, but it appears to be riddled with factual errors. https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/s/Z0bbvJl7nk

If nothing else, he's useful to have here because I always know what the most recent propaganda line is in Moscow.

You just started another thread where you simply repeated this, over and over, and refused to engage with anyone who explained why you were wrong. I don't have a problem with you believing this, because it is in the Bible and it would be hard not to pick up some erroneous ideas about atheists if...

Good example, thanks.

There's confusion here, but it's not the atheists who are confused.

@Judges13:18 now informs us that, in addition, atheists are actually agnostics. Atheists play all sides of this apparently, being atheists, and theists, and agnostics. We know God exists, and we're not sure, and we're also "deciding he doesn't exist." I'm getting dizzy. Say what you will about...

Atheists don't exist, and they're taking over the church. That's a new one.

@Judges13:18, you know anyone can accuse anyone of lying about their beliefs, right? There are, for example, atheists who would say that Christian apologists are typically closet atheists...

They must represent some Democrats, since they were elected to Congress by Democrats as their official representatives. Most Democrats appear to support Israel - but it seems facetious to deny that, out of the Americans who hate Israel, most are Democrats. I might change my mind on this if...

Thank you for the resource, @Open Heart. Does Dr. Phil have more of a conservative or liberal perspective on such topics, from what you've seen? Are there any specific videos by him that you'd recommend as particularly good or representative?

An atheist might care about an inconsequential contradiction in the Bible because it would show that the Bible contains a false statement. Some people believe that the Bible contains zero false statements, so this would refute that position. Once the position that the Bible never makes a false...