Sorry, Karen Armstrong - there are no finer points of theology. It is all a house of cards; a fantasy built on fear of death and superstition. It is religion that is shallow in the final analysis.

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That rape scene was tastefully done.

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I just find it fascinating how some people claim to have such deep understandings of things that they can’t even prove exist in the first place.  Replace the word “God” in any of these books or arguments with the word “The Tooth Fairy” and one begins to understand how utterly ridiculous it all is.

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“The magisterium of science covers the empirical realm: what is the universe made of (fact) and why does it work this way (theory)?”

This statement from the article is ignorance defined. Not only ignorance but also supreme intellectualism. Everyone has a god of sorts and the atheist god is their intellect and sometimes their snail collection. They will waste no time in telling anyone that will listen about their supreme intellect and reasoning abilities that far exceed others.

To believe that we know what the universe is made of considering we only are able to measure a small per cent of the energy in the universe is very revealing how atheism based in materialism is also based in beliefs. Beliefs are stated as facts just like the religious folks. Oh well lets just throw dark matter and dark energy out the door it is a fact we know what it is made of. No need for further research.

The best we can say about the matter in the universe when we attempt to measure it is “not this not that”. But it’s a fact we know what it is made of.

Now as far as meaning all phenomena have meaning but at this stage of our evolutionary process we know little of those meanings. Very little as Socrates so rightly stated.

Only if one is able to stand between materialism and religion can one see that they are two sides of the same coin. And the so-called religious in this country are more about Darwinism than what their “savior” taught.

Americans with their love of capitalism; well Christianity died on the cross in America. Capitalism is more about survival of the fittest than what Jesus taught. The religious folks and their economic ideologies are more about Darwinism than Christianity. And of course they don’t have a clue they are; they actually despise the atheist materialist without realizing they are one of them.

Now materialists keep thinking that all the matter in the universe was contained in the size of the head of a needle before the so called big bang implosion all the while the religious think someone had to die on the cross so they could get to heaven. Oh and their god is a god of unconditional love and grace but demanded some form of atonement.

That last statement does not pass the simplest of logic tests. Even as a child and exposed to some religious beliefs thank god not many of those beliefs I rejected those beliefs that were taught as truths.

Take your pick as to which scenario is most ignorant and lacks any logic or reasoning abilities. From my point of view it is a toss up. Oh as a side note that ignorance we all have has as its source in innocence. Few will understand these words very few.

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Troy who? Magnificent. With a proliferation of so many bad arguments it is nice to have some other voices do some dismantling. Harris et al. are Generals. We need some more Captains and Lieutenants to dispel some of the huge apologetics market!

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This is a brilliant and coherent rebuttal of Armstrong.

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lol, superficial criticism.

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