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Oh, I forgot to add Stephen and Envisage.

Well, I did graduate from MIT and Harvard and I am older than Fauxlaw. There are 3 other people on this topic with high reasoning ability. They are Double_R,Bones and zedvictor4. Why don't you ask them?

Of course people with a lack of reasoning ability will not agree with this.

That is not true. Being an atheist is because of one's reasoning ability. Being religious is based on one's lack of reasoning ability. Elon Musk doesn’t claim to have any religious beliefs. In an interview with Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the US version of The Office) when asked if science and religion can coexist, Musk replied, “Probably not”. To the next question, “Do you pray?”, he answered, “I didn’t even pray when I almost died of malaria.”

That's not true. All the strippers I know are theists amd I love them. I bet Trump says the same thing about Melania.

Bill Gates was profiled in a January 13, 1996 TIME magazine cover story. Here are some excerpts compiled by the Drudge Report:
"Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul?" interviewer Walter Isaacson asks Gates "His face suddenly becomes expressionless," writes Isaacson, "his squeaky voice turns toneless, and he folds his arms across his belly and vigorously rocks back and forth in a mannerism that has become so mimicked at MICROSOFT that a meeting there can resemble a round table of ecstatic rabbis."
"I don't have any evidence on that," answers Gates. "I don't have any evidence of that."
He later states, "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."

Well, there have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, nuns and members of religious orders.

I will let Gary O'Reilly speak for me. He says:

I’m an atheist, one of those crazy internet ones who actively believe there is no god rather than just not actively believing in one.
I used to think theists were stupid. And being somewhat theistic (or at least deistic) myself as a youth, I thought that my younger self was stupid too.
Nowadays I’ve grown up a lot, had various discussions about belief that were more than “haha they thought a bush set itself on fire and spoke to a guy” you get on some of those atheist forums and stuff. So I don’t think theists are stupid, but there is an undeniable sense that there’s something weird about the idea. It’s like if someone you knew just absolutely insisted that 2+2 = 6. Everything else is fine, they’re not an asshole and you get on with them well, but they’re firm on that. You’re not going to cut them out of your life, and you’re going to remain friends with them, but every now and then the thought “this guy thinks 2 + 2 = 6” is gonna pop into your head and weird you out a little bit.
I don’t know if theists can truly understand just how weird and sinister religion and religious belief can appear to someone who is completely outside of it. And that’s a barrier you can never quite get over, I don’t think. There’s always that thought at the back of your head that says “this guy believes in some weird stuff, man, and even bases his life around it” and that is fundamentally disturbing to me. Not massively so. Not “I’m gonna take the kids and run screaming from your presence” disturbing. Not even “I’m not going to invite you to the next social event” disturbing, but it’s there, and it’s something I can never quite, 100% get out of my considerations.

Memories Are Passed Through DNA From Your Grandparents, Say Scientists. This is why people that have always been blind think they see in NDE's.

See:  Woo Woo & Poo Poo - YouTube

Oh, sorry, I thought the topic was about laxitives

An example of legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.  Uzzah with his brother Ahio, drove the cart on which the ark was placed when David sought to bring it up to Jerusalem. When the oxen stumbled, making the ark tilt, Uzzah steadied the ark with his hand, in direct violation of the divine law, and he was immediately killed by the Lord for his error.

Yes, Noel Casler who worked for Trump once tweeted: "He wears adult diapers, has since at least 2007. We would often stop taping on ‘Apprentice’ because of his rage over not being able to read a word on a cue-card. He would scream at crew until he soiled himself, then go snort more Adderall and change Depends."

Oh, sorry, I thought the topic was the number of people that would vote for Trump in 2024.

I think Albert Einstein's quote says it all : “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

Elon Musk reportedly asks Tesla managers who don't execute orders to 'resign immediately,' according to leaked emails.

Why doesn't God do the same to his clergy?

No, I was a draft dodger like Trump.  Later, I did work for the Navy in Diego Garcia. Anyone else been to The Brit Club there?

The Bible is laughable isn't it?

Why would God want someone like them to represent Him? Shouldn't He have given them strokes or heart attacks instead of a lot of money?

Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist and gospel music performer. He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a sex scandal involving prostitutes.

Pastor Jim Bakker spent 8 years in jail.

Praise God!

Remember when Stephen said: “I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.” ?

Oh, sorry, I meant Stephen Hawking.

Religion may once have been the opium of the people, but in large swaths of the world the masses have kicked the habit. In countries once dominated by churches characterised by patriarchy, ritual and hierarchy, the pews have emptied and people have found other sources of solace, spirituality and morality.
In the US, those who say they are atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” is up from 17% in 2009 to 26% last year. In Britain, according to the most recent data, more than half the population proclaimed no faith in 2018, a figure that rose from 43% to 52% in a decade. -Harriet Sherwood

It is interesting to note that 26 percent of the US population has an IQ over 110.

I think Zed is saying that people who believe in deities are using the same logic they used when they believed in Santa Claus.

17-year-olds can vote in Congressional and/or Presidential primaries and caucuses in a large number of states, including Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.  I'm guessing Kyle voted for Trump.

BrotherD.Thomas is back!  Praise Jesus!!!!!

As for coal, the world’s coal deposits “were laid down during the Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago—which was still a good 75 million or so years before the evolution of the first dinosaurs.” Coal was formed when the dense forests and jungles were “buried beneath layers of sediment, and their unique fibrous chemical structure caused them to be ‘cooked’ into solid coal rather than liquid oil.

Similar to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, the AstraZeneca vaccine relies on a chimpanzee adenovirus to carry spike proteins from the coronavirus into your body to create an immune response.

Adenovirus is a very common virus. Usually causing mild illnesses like the common cold, adenoviruses are widespread and efficient. There are more than 50 types of adenoviruses that cause respiratory infections, and they are good at moving into and attacking the body in various ways. A chimpanzee adenovirus is an adenovirus that causes these infections in chimpanzees.

        No, that is how evolution works.

Do you have black hair that you comb over your forehead and a narrow black mustache?

      I don't know, are you a Schicklgruber?

From above, "Morality describes the particular values of a specific group at a specific point in time." hence it is data.

God used to speak to people from clouds and burning bushes, so why doesn't he go on Facebook and show pictures of Heaven?

Trump's grandfather died from the Spanish flu in 1918. Yet in 2020, Donald Trump said he "didn't know people died from the flu" during a visit to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters.

            Live long and prosper !

I bet that the Chinese now think Republican's can Make China Great Again!

I think that God is just showing that he approves of abortion.

Proof that thoughts are physical.  Anesthetics primarily act on receptors located in the brain and produce oscillations in the brain's circuits, leading to a state of consciousness that it is much more similar to a coma than to sleep.

You probably laugh at that, don't you?

Well, Jeff Bezos is a Democrat.

What language do you speak in Heaven?  Is it Vulcan, dif-tor heh smusma?

Does this religion allow you to have 5 children with 3 different wives?  I know Christianity does.

White nationalists used tiki torches to light up their Charlottesville march.

“The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of venerable but still primitive legends,” 

Albert Einstein 1954

"All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they’re doing. And stolen by the fake news media. That’s what they’ve done and what they’re doing. We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved."   Donald Trump  Jan 6, 2021

Here is a review of Neil Grossman by one of his students at University of Illinois.

This class was a joke. Basically all about religion and these stories of the afterlife "proving" it exists. I got in an argument with one of the guest speakers because she came in telling us she had died and seen god and his kingdom and he is real. Eventually, got graded on something I thought was strictly opinions. Lowest grade I received at UIC.

There are different interpretations of quantum physics that suggest a deterministic universe (eg. Many-Worlds interpretation) , so I would say that this topic should be in the Science and Nature section.

I'm guessing Polytheist has a jacket that says  'I Really Don't Care, Do U?' .

Columbus’ strong ties to Portugal have led many to believe he was born there, not in Genoa. Some historians have argued that his marriage into a noble Portuguese family would have been unlikely had he been an unknown (and yet-unproven) foreigner. In 2012, Fernando Branco, an engineering professor at the University of Lisbon, published a book that argued that Columbus was actually Portuguese-born and his real name was Pedro Ataíde. Ataíde, the illegitimate child of a Portuguese lord, was presumed to have died in a naval battle in 1476. But Branco and a number of Portuguese historians believe that he actually survived, and to avoid persecution for his family’s possible treasonous opposition to the Portuguese crown, changed his name to Culon, after a French sailor he served with, embarking on a new life with a new identity.

 Columbus died of severe arthritis at the age of 54.

Columbus spoke  Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish.

We should go back to the top tax rate of 92 percent that Eisenhower had to pay off the debt of World War 2.