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 see anything specifically non-Catholic that has any worth to me whatsoever.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_18840420_humanum-genus_en.html
I don't blame the Masons for standing up to the Church. So the idea of truth existing outside of the Church is a Mason error? Really?
Your worldview is warped.
It is in fact the only philosophy that actually bothers to follow the scientific method to its natural conclusions in all areas.
The Masons stand for falsehoods. That's why they accept all religions as equal. They must stand against the church, because otherwise their falsehoods fail. Same reason you keep standing up against the church- because the reality of the situation, that modern American culture is in grave error, is too much for you to face.
I think the writers at the New York Times have a better grasp on reality than you. You are becoming very small minded.