(September 6, 2017 at 9:47 pm)Tres Leches Wrote:(September 6, 2017 at 10:46 am)drfuzzy Wrote: What puzzles me is why an atheist - who presumably doesn't believe in any supernatural entities of any stripe, and hopefully understands that weather is not controlled by any entities and holds no messages for humanity - would make such a claim in the first place.
I thought the same thing too. Thinking of Hurricane Harvey as karma for voting Republican is just woo. Sounds hypocritical to me.
-Teresa
Well, doing so is generally an objectively bad thing that should require corrective action, but yeah, calling down a godly wrath storm on them that teaches no one anything is a purposeless notion.
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.
