Matthew MackI don't think you're a looser.Sin, or being a looser, is an artificial construct that represents what an individual has done to fall short of an impossible standard…Jan 14, 2022Jan 14, 2022
Matthew MackIt appears that religion started as a social construct for human tribes to explain the environment…However to understand this, as you said, it is a matter of getting past our own indoctrination and cognitive biases to see how all this…Jul 29, 2021Jul 29, 2021
Matthew MackSaying a place in a book exists, does not equate to the book being true.The point is: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” (Carl Sagan). What you give here is rudimentary evidence (the…Jun 11, 2021Jun 11, 2021
Matthew MackThe Bible, as a book of moral and social codes, has been shown to be outdated and deeply flawed, as…Would we, for instance, use a physics textbook from 2000 years ago? of course not. Human understanding evolves and we revise our codified…May 21, 20212May 21, 20212
Matthew MackExcellent post.I wonder if this Catholic Priest has ever read his Bible and realized Yahweh to be an Iron Age god of war? Or how his holy scriptures…May 20, 2021May 20, 2021