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Atheists & Agnostics

Voltaire2

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4. No. You asked a specific question:

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 23, 2018, 01:49 PM

Dec 2018

That entailed this condition: “If religious traditions could remain within the realm of human expression, art, and freedom”.

And religions don’t do that. Something else might, for example Surrealism.

Flying squirrels are in fact not squirrels.

Flightless birds are birds but only because they have a common evolutionary heritage. Not all birds fly. Some mammals fly. A pig that evolved wings and started flying would still be a mammal, but not a pig-mammal.

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Philosophical phidgeting [View all] defacto7 Dec 2018 OP

If pigs could fly. Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #1

So you're saying humans can't be better than they are defacto7 Dec 2018 #2

No. You asked a specific question: Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #4

So your answer is no, religions don't do that. defacto7 Dec 2018 #5

I see no evidence that theistic religions Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #6

Reminds me of a joke Castaneda told Freelancer Dec 2018 #3