Biden COOKED Trump “Tearing down the East Wing of the White House, making room for his ballroom, putting his name on the Kennedy Center, building an arch in his own honor, or even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. What a loser!”
Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA pastor Silas H. Shelton, who claimed LGBTQ+ books and Pride flags harm children, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for unlawful sexual conduct with a 14-year-old girl.
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This is one of those arguments which sounds devastating until the first molecule of thought arrives.
Many atheists think alien life is plausible because we know life exists on at least one planet, we know planets are common, we know organic chemistry is common, and we have a universe of spectacularly vulgar size in which to run the numbers.
That is not the same as "believing in aliens" as a doctrine. It is an inference about probability.
God is a different claim. God is not merely "another biological organism somewhere else". God is usually claimed to be a timeless, spaceless, immaterial, omnipotent, omniscient creator of reality who answers prayers, grounds morality, performs miracles, inspired scriptures, and has opinions about foreskins and seafood.
One of these is "life may exist elsewhere because life exists here and there are many elsewheres".
The other is an entire metaphysical monarchy with a clergy, a bookshop, and a prosecution service.
The fact you can’t tell the evidential difference is not quite the intellectual triumph you seem to imagine.
@AgainstAtheismX It's about probability. Out planet is akin to a grain of sand in the Sahara desert, and so I think it's arrogant to believe that we are the only lifeforms in the universe. The probability of life on other planets is extremely high.
@HeDwells We still don't know exactly what caused the "Big Bang". If it was caused by an intelligent higher power, that doesn't mean it was the Abrahamic God.
@GadSaad Three Muslims were killed recently when their mosque was shot up by two young kids who were radicalized by online far-right groups.
Brenton Tarrant killed 52 Muslims in NZ.
Alexander Bissonette Killed 6 Muslims in Quebec.