Explaining Good Fortune
“Firstly, congratulations on your deconversion, your new job and everything else. Secondly, don’t underestimate coincidences or sell yourself short.”
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“Firstly, congratulations on your deconversion, your new job and everything else. Secondly, don’t underestimate coincidences or sell yourself short.”
“Why do you believe the truth claims of your religion or equivalent?”
“…you’ll have a better time in the interview if you know roughly what he’ll say beforehand, and that’s not difficult.”
“Of course, easily the most direct orders against homosexual sex are in the same part of Leviticus.”
“…absence of expected evidence can indeed be evidence of absence, like the absence of any bat guano in your attic.”
“This is a real Jew of the establishment we’re talking about. He stayed a Jew all his life which means it’s very doubtful he actually thought Jesus was the Messiah, which is what “Christ” meant in a Jewish context.”
“Once you stop looking for absolute certainty, you start to judge these things on their actual merit.”
“Only faith makes a miracle seem at all likely, all things considered.”
“A quantum physicist I ain’t, but I know they get upset when quantum mechanics are essentially used as pseudoscience.”
“Going by the word alone, an atheist (a-theist) is someone without a theistic belief. That includes deists.”