Reality is not omniscient by choice
For here I take a leap. To what I have thought but not said. The notion of God requires the…
Pampered, privileged and annoying as hell: why SJW’s need to borrow a clue
Pete Ross
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Thanks for writing a poignant essay with a voice of reasonable reason. I shall add “social justice warrior” to my list of other names for
- “nice people”: Bertrand Russell
- “regressive left”: Maajid Nawazand
- “doxastically closed”: Peter Boghossian.
I applaud your sensitive presentation of the divide between ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ — having worked…
Ian Wright
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Well said, and I agree. Just because we think something must be true and really want it to be true doesn’t make it so. The very fact that some people have long, healthy, prosperous lives and others have short, horrible, pain-filled ones is for me the best evidence that there is no all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful god or gods.
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Jon Leslie
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Excellent piece Jon. It’s not easy to think, much less write about these issues. I’ve written before why I think scientists are so hellbent on ridiculing anything that reminds them of spirituality and religion, when all that is asked of them is to simply approach the matter objectively and experientially.