Strange Notions is a new Disqus site run by Brandon Vogt to try to discuss Rationality and Reason with Athiests. He may well succeed with some, but there is one subset of atheism he will never succeed with. On Richard Dawkin's spectrum of theistic probability , those with a score 6 and above often fall into something I term fundamentalist atheism. Many of them come from fundamentalist Christian backgrounds, if not in their generation, then within three generations of their recent past. Fundamentalist Atheism starts with the assumption that the supernatural doesn't exist and that the natural world is all there is, and runs with it, denying any data to the contrary. I've always been one to consider the natural to be a subset of the supernatural- that is the only real difference between the natural and the supernatural to me is the line of the shared scientific knowledge of mankind. A scientist, therefore, if he is to learn anything new about the universe, needs to have h...
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I don't know where you come up with these notions. They seem to be the product of an over active imagination and obsessive thinking. And what does the stock market have to do with it? You have a strange impression of East Coast liberals.
I realize that's a different form of pro-life than you are used to. Mainly because it protects human life from conception until natural death, not just before birth.
Republicans are liberals in that equation quite often- putting profit above people. And Democrats want to do it so much that they want to legalize forms of death.
I find American society on the other side of the Rockies to be quite foreign.
The CEOs are the smaller set, the East Coast Liberals are the superset, but the culture is 100% the same: a hatred of poverty so strong that you're willing to harm others to protect your own property.