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I just can’t say it enough: Faith is not only not a virtue, it is actually actively harmful to the world by way of allowing anyone who holds it to justify anything. It just isn’t a rational or workable basis for thinking.
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The fact is, a person who rejects evolution is a person who doesn’t understand the world.
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Hockey, by a wide margin, is the most exciting sport. Good to see it back.
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Perhaps the most impressive thing about Christianity is the fact that in roughly 2,000 years it hasn’t been able to produce a single piece of scientific evidence for its entire basis.
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C.S. Lewis is easily one of the weakest philosophical writers I have ever read. I mean that both in style and substance. First, style: I don’t care to read his fiction/allegories (or watch the movies now made from them), so I’ll defer my opinion on that style to others – he probably is an excellent writer of fiction. However, one does not write philosophy as one writes fiction. And he just isn’t good at the former. Second, substance: In a chapter he wrote about miracles, he said math was tautological, then he cited basic algebra to back himself up. I rest my case on that point.
The man just wasn’t very good at the important stuff.
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This is a scheduled post I’m writing in the middle of December because of a trip to Argentina. I begin my journey back home today.
You can assume I’m filled with detestation for the process of traveling.
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I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again: It delights me when theists attempt to call atheism a religion. It isn’t because it is – of course it isn’t. It’s because inherent in their attempt is an implied invalidation of atheism. Why, if I prove it’s religious in nature, then it loses credibility.
I fully realize that theists don’t intend to insult religion like that, but there’s no way around it. And I agree with what they’ve done. If something is religious in nature, if it’s underpinned by the odiousness of faith, then it does lose credibility.
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This actually isn’t a scheduled post. As it turns out, I have WiFi here in Mendoza. So, two thoughts:
1) American Airlines is awful. It would have been nice if they mentioned that I needed to change airPORTS in Buenos Ares before I bought my ticket.
2) Mendoza is an incredibly nice city.
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So many feminists* wonder why the word “privilege” evokes such an antagonistic reaction, but I think it’s clear: It’s a code word. Its only purpose is for like-minded people to know when they equally detest a particular aspect of some culture.
I think it would just speed things up if they simply asked white males to apologize at the outset of every conversation. That’s the sexist, racist bullshit they want, after all.
*I mean Internet, caricature feminists: an overwhelmingly vocal, illogical minority.
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The cost for my upcoming expedition to Aconcagua has been tremendously greater than when I hiked Kilimanjaro. I believe the secret lies in the fact that I hiked one mountain, but that I’ll be going on an expedition up the other.
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For the Sake of Science 