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"" ...To answer your question, I think most humans have a "religious" impulse, but it's more about tribalism and ideology and trying to understand the cave of the unknown. The span of the entire gamut of human personalities from what I can tell. ... Peace I actually agree with this. Today, I was al...

I made the correction, thanks. I also decided to modify the title and go with Res Ipsa's use of the term "quasi-religion." I'm sorry for judging you harshly before. I've been reading your posts and you are a very sincere and deep thinker. And I can be a jackass. Especially with a BAC over 0.12. I'v...

""Is their a New Secular Religion, If So Does It Support We Are Innately Religious?" Sorry to be a spelling jackass, but it's "there" not "their" To answer your question, I think most humans have a "religious" impulse, but it's more about tribalism and ideology. Peace I made the correction, thanks....

Free Ranger, if you want to accuse someone of slander, especially here in Celestial, you should just report their post. I did report it and the moderators did nothing. Dr. Shades said he would take care of it but he is dealing with personal issues that makes it difficult for him to deal with it rig...

I know Free Ranger has indicated his desire to disengage, so this is simply a response to his comment: ...So what I see going on here in this thread some people are avoiding my questions and answering the question they wanted to answer which is "what is a religion," which in my humble opinion feels...

Please respect my desire to disengage. Which is my right, and the celestial attitude would be to respect it.

We don't need to move on no. As I said: To be honest, at this point I am reminded of the Mormon apologist Robert Millet who instructing BYU Students in this way: It was years later that I was reading Elder Packer’s book Teach Ye Diligently, where Elder Packer tells of an experience of traveling with...

To be honest, at this point I am reminded of the Mormon apologist Robert Millet who instructing BYU Students in this way: It was years later that I was reading Elder Packer’s book Teach Ye Diligently, where Elder Packer tells of an experience of traveling with President Henry D. Moyle of the First P...

It would also be helpful if people did not create a straw man of my position. Mentioning Hume is a far cry from a good summary of my position. Likewise, repeatedly bringing up my use of the word religion is disingenuous, when I clarified my meaning and offered better alternative terms based on sugge...

Yes I agree that atheism in and of itself is certainly not a religion. All my years as an atheist I heard many atheists explain this over and over to theists, to our irritation. My opening post is not saying that at all, to be clear. What my opening post is getting at is that atheism opens an existe...