God and the dilemma with unfalsifiability

[Astonished]

Well when the doctrine is pulled entirely out of the ass of its adherent, of course they can say it revolves around sporting event outcomes and has very little to do with sparing the lives of natural disaster victims. Nothing anyone accepts on faith should come as a surprise because there is literally nothing that cannot be accepted on faith because of its very nature.

[Minimalist]

You substituted one addiction for another.  Granted, its easier on your liver but let's not kid ourselves on what you did.

I wish I were addicted to going to church and reading the Bible, but I don't do either nearly as much as I should.

But if I had switched a malignant addiction for a benign one, I'd be fine with that.

I probably would have liked you better when you drank.  Now you're just a sanctimonious cunt.

[ignoramus]

^^^

[John V]

@AM

Yeah - neither link addresses anything even accidentally approaching "Secular attempts at encouraging procreation haven't worked, so now they're importing people, largely theists, to fill the gap", nor referring to "Tax benefits and other benefits".

Want to try again?

They don't refer to benefits? Are you just trolling?

First link, first paragraph: "France has unveiled measures to spur women to have more children. They include an increased monthly grant for mothers who take time off work for a third baby."

That increased monthly grant is a benefit.

Also from the first link: "Other changes include a doubling of the tax credit for families that hire home-help for children under six, and the extension of discounts available for families with three or more children."

Doubling of a tax credit is a tax benefit.

From the third: "Policy options include family-oriented policies such as financial transfers and tax breaks for parents with children, child-related leave and provision of childcare. They can also extend to a variety of measures that help with gender equality, reconciliation of work and family life or finding affordable housing. While experts
generally feel that family-oriented measures can encourage women to have more children, these policies are costly and their effect on fertility may in some cases be unclear or weak."

Financial transfers are benefits. Tax breaks are tax benefits.

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I probably would have liked you better when you drank.  Now you're just a sanctimonious cunt.

Oh please, you're just jealous because I have a life, while you're a bitter old man with nothing better to do than take articles other people have written and re-post them around the internet.

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Well when the doctrine is pulled entirely out of the ass of its adherent, of course they can say it revolves around sporting event outcomes and has very little to do with sparing the lives of natural disaster victims. Nothing anyone accepts on faith should come as a surprise because there is literally nothing that cannot be accepted on faith because of its very nature.

Yeah, like the notion that people are born gay or trans.

[Neo-Scholastic]

The forums need an ignore function, not just for posts, so we don't have to see obscene thread titles by desprate commie sodomites.

[Cyberman]

Or you could just leave.

[Astonished]

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Well when the doctrine is pulled entirely out of the ass of its adherent, of course they can say it revolves around sporting event outcomes and has very little to do with sparing the lives of natural disaster victims. Nothing anyone accepts on faith should come as a surprise because there is literally nothing that cannot be accepted on faith because of its very nature.

Yeah, like the notion that people are born gay or trans.

Actually, no, that one's been proven. One biased, pseudoscientific creationist cunt writing an article that gets blasted to shit by actual scientists saying otherwise and not backing it up lends no credibility to anything. Your agenda doesn't automatically make things true. It makes you an ignorant, bigoted piece of shit.

[John V]

Proven? Wow, let's see the research. What did they have to say about identical twins?

[Harry Nevis]

God watches over every blade of grass, too. I guess I don't see the problem.

People on the inside of the bubble seldom do.

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I'm not sure how anyone can be comfortable with gullibility. But to each his or her own...

Really? Most people have no problem accepting non-falsifiable positions if they like those positions. A gay or trans person says there were born that way. Plenty of atheists take that at face value, even though it's not falsifiable. Well, actually, it pretty much is falsified by twins studies, but you guys accept it anyway.

Maybe if you can demonstrate that those things happen at a significantly higher rate for Christians than people of other religions, or no religions, you may have a point.

I'm not trying to prove a point. The question was whether I'm comfortable with it, not whether I could prove it to your satisfaction.

So you prefer comfort to truth.

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god is a psychological construct created by man, or if you prefer, the human mind. Probably subconsciously in the beginning but expanded upon consciously when recognized as a tool to modify behavior within a society. 

It's usefulness as a tool is waning.

Hardly. Europe has largely abandoned Christianity, and it's largely abandoned having babies. Secular attempts at encouraging procreation haven't worked, so now they're importing people, largely theists, to fill the gap.

Secular attempts?

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The forums need an ignore function, not just for posts, so we don't have to see obscene thread titles by desprate commie sodomites.

The persecution never ends, does it?

[John V]

So you prefer comfort to truth.

Nope. That statement would only apply if you could prove that the truth is that God doesn't exist. You can't do that.

Secular attempts?

Yep. See links above.