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It’s understandable that a church would want everyone to call it “the Church of Jesus Christ”. All churches that consider themselves Christian believe they are that, or part of that. For a Christian church to call itself THE Church of Jesus Christ, though, and not just a part of that body, is tantam...

That's an interesting point, except for me it's dauntingly large. The relationship between religion and politics must be too big a topic even for a fat book, let alone a thread. If anyone does undertake a book within the topic, just figuring out how to carve out a book-length subtopic is going to be...

When did God become God rather than god? I think it's an interesting question. On the one hand I think that theistic theology is really different from just imagining a sort of superhero. It's not enough to say that humans are to God as characters are to an author. It's not even enough to say that hu...

One of my brothers has described Mormonism as "the most obviously made-up religion". My liberal approach to religions makes me want to defend most religions as having at least some amount of good insight, but I haven't been able to argue against my brother on this one. You might point out to your b...

All intelligence is artificial. Except yours, of course. Yours is the real deal, surely. This is just the thing. However stupid we humans may be, our minds have formed without finely tuned guidance under the same natural laws that also let stars and living cells form spontaneously. Intelligence is ...

Why not?

I don't wash all my clothes or my dishes by hand, and I don't cook over an open fire that I've kindled by rubbing sticks together. Why should I make all my own article summaries the hard way?

This AI sounds like a well oiled assemblage of common observations gleaned from a large bunch of sources. I may not really want to know how many opinions were reviewed to mulch into this one summary. I realize a very large part of any humans’ statements about subjects of interest are like that. How...

I’ve always wondered why that line damaged McCarthy so much. He seemed powerful and famous, then he suddenly lost influence and was over, and the only explanation I’ve seen for his fall is that question in the Senate. Why couldn’t he just shrug it off and keep going? You get the impression that Amer...

I think it could be okay to say something like, “I don’t want to talk about that.” Marriage doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to tell everything, even about things from long ago or that really aren’t important. I don’t think lying to anyone is ever an ideal option, though. I don’t think one sho...

I disagree with gemli that every religion requires belief in things with incontrovertible evidence against them. My own personal religion seems to me to be a counterexample. I believe things that are not implied by any incontrovertible evidence, that's true, but I don't think I believe anything that...