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>>14300803
clever.

>>13335522

This nigga's got a point, but he's also missing a point. To wit: the existence of God (or The Divine, or universal moral laws - these are all interchangeable, and our personal conceptualization of them is fairly arbitrary; the FSM being one example,) is by definition something beyond the ability of Science to prove. We cannot DISPROVE it ("there are no absolute laws" is itself an absolute law,) but that's not the same as proof, either. Therefore "god exists" and "god does not exists" are not just untestable hypotheses, but effectively pointless ones, because they don't affect us no matter what the answer is.

Because of that, we can only measure the virtue of religion by its affects in our known, testable, mortal world. The classic example is "Pascal's Wager," but Pascal's wager itself presupposes a lot of things - namely, that IF god exists, than he's totally the Old Testament god of If You Didn't Recognize Me I'mma Whup Your Sorry Ass And Ship You Off To Hell. That's weak and unnecessary. Religious belief has plenty of measurable and obvious benefits to one's life. The Founding Fathers of America gambled big on that - they figured that those truths were so "self-evident" that men of all faiths and creeds could agree on them. When they founded a secular country, most European observers figured they didn't have a chance in hell of pulling it off - how could a nation without one universal moral code, as established and legitimized by religion, ever agree on laws? They have to be founded on something, after all; otherwise the definition of moral and immoral behavior is completely arbitrary. That experiment turned out better than most expected.

I once wrote a story where a spess muhreen and his troopships AI fell in love.

There were also ALIUMS involved.

>>7230430

You are a fucking god among men. I salute you.

>>6821118

lol'ed

>>6474626

Goddamn, that just made my afternoon.