Which political ideology do you most identify with?
Religion and government need to be two totally separate things
Separation of church and state is incredibly good and important in keeping religion away from any kind of public legislation, because enforcing religious laws or values onto others is bad and wrong. Governments and law should always be exclusively secular.
Secondly, don't project your own belief's lack of evidence onto everyone else. Atheism, which you seem to have conflated with secularism, does not rely on faith to understand the objective reality of things like evolution or the age of the earth (without the need for any god), because we have this thing called the scientific method that allows us to draw conclusions based on objective evidence, unlike religion, which relies on faith and only seeks out evidence to support its preconceived conclusions.
Thirdly, some sects of Christianity (like the one I know you are in favor of) are blatantly authoritarian and actively seek to dismantle and forbid certain liberties and freedoms, thus creating one of the most unhappy populaces. Not all believers are like you, but the fact that you are trying to claim that Christianity is inherently conducive of liberty and happiness, while simultaneously believing in things such as state-enforced pregnancies against people's consent, is laughable.
Lastly, the fact that you genuinely believe that the crusades was just a "self-defense war" against "the aggressive Islamists" is also laughable. Not only is that pretty Islamophobic, but it also just further shows how incredibly susceptible you are to propaganda, so I guess it is no wonder why you are so staunchly religious...
@Patriot-#1776Constitution6mos6MO
Christianity offers the only rational explanation for the Laws of Logic. Without an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful one true God to create the Universe, there could be no exception-less, universal logical laws as we see in the universe today. The atheist believes that nothing exists beyond the physical – there is no spiritual world or anything like that. But, I would then ask, are the Laws of Logic physical entities that we can see and touch? No. Therefore atheists who are using the Laws of Logic to argue against Creation are inadvertently proving that it's true, because, in their worldview, if it was consistent, they wouldn't be able to reason at all. They have to borrow from the theistic worldview in order to argue against it, which creates an absurdity. I await your response.
@VulcanMan6 6mos6MO
I assume you are referring to the Laws of Identity, Non-Contradiction, and Excluded Middle, right? Those "Laws of Logic"? I ask because your argument that these require a god, or even a religion/spirituality, makes no sense. We made up these laws of logic when we made up language and communication. Without our sentient interpretation of the universe, assigning meaning to the world around us, the universe has no objective "logic" to begin with. The universe simply exists whether or not we were ever here to even come up with the word "existing". Logic only exists… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
“We made up these laws of logic when we made up language and communication.”
If we made up laws of logic when we made up language and communication, how does one explain the fact that they are universal, applicable everywhere, and unchanging. If like language, they were mere products of our minds, they could not apply outside our finite minds, making them impossible to apply to the universe or world around us. If we merely used the laws of logic because they work and life goes better for us when we use them, that's well and good, but it necessitates their existence before the creation of man. And if laws or logic were just agreed upon objections, why does every… Read more
@VulcanMan6 5mos5MO
If we made up laws of logic when we made up language and communication, how does one explain the fact that they are universal, applicable everywhere, and unchanging.
Because that's how language and communication works. Two people can point at a dog and call it two different things in two different languages, but both words are still referring to the exact same thing. We made up the multiple different languages that still communicate the exact same words and meanings that we assigned to things. The "laws of logic" are merely conditions of our own understanding of how we communica… Read more
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If man made up the laws of logic as he made up language, they would not be universally-applicable laws at all, but rather fickle and changing as the majority decides.