RE: "Religious people tend to be smarter"
October 13, 2015 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2015 at 4:52 pm by jenny1972.)
(October 13, 2015 at 3:33 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:(October 13, 2015 at 2:24 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Yes, he did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_..._afterlife
The last is my favorite. The term "unbounded" is a mathematical term, meaning a function (equation) that is not bounded by integers, but which goes from negative infinity to infinity. He may have been using it in a more colloquial context, simply to mean "bigger than I can express in words", but I like to think he deliberately chose the largest mathematical term he could express.
Quote-mining Ole Al is a cottage industry amongst theists, because everyone knows that having insight into the physics of gravity makes one an expert on everything else.
id still consider him more of a deist than agnostic , he did say that he believed in 'spinoza's God' Baruch Spinoza was a 17th century philosopher . he did not believe in religions thats for sure he thought they were all very childish and simplistic . he also did not believe in a personal God but was convinced in the concept of God (it was just not a religious concept of God) which is what deists believe.
[i]it is a widespread belief that Spinoza equated God with the material universe. He has therefore been called the "prophet" and "prince" and most eminent expounder of pantheism. More specifically, in a letter to Henry Oldenburg he states, "as to the view of certain people that I identify God with Nature (taken as a kind of mass or corporeal matter), they are quite mistaken". For Spinoza, our universe (cosmos) is a mode under two attributes of Thought and Extension and that God has infinitely many other attributes which are not present in our world.
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Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John Lennon
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain