(February 19, 2015 at 1:53 pm)Brian37 Wrote: In my 14 of online debate I have learned lots of arguments for and against god claims and religion. But one thing I do not think is asked enough by skeptics is this.
Ok, you have billions of people making all sorts of competing claims as to the nature of reality. So to those reading this, what is the best way settle disputes in competing claims? (This is more for the theist to answer, atheists already know the answer).
Uhm... By flicking through holy books and cherry-picking verses, that can be interpreted in a way serving one's viewpoint?
If that fails - crusading/jihading the shit out of each other, until all but one of the parties are exterminated, or forced into submission.
That's how we roll in the Bronze Age!
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
