Why don't theists understand that Occam's Razor makes positing a deity as the cause an extraneous, unnecessary contingency when we have an explanation based in the natural world? Their catch-all dodge (which doesn't begin to solve the infinite regress) is no longer able to nudge its way in. The god of the gaps is fucking dead, let's cremate his ass already.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.