Recent content by TheFriendlyAtheist

No worries, I felt no disrespect.

I have to say reading things like this almost makes me feel like we are living in two different realities, because those things are so far removed from how I see the world. The main question I had though is if angels, demons and spirits exist why wouldn't they be considered natural phenomena...

Is that we can't explain it with science or that we currently don't know how to explain it with science? There have been plenty of things we never thought we would understand until we did. So how can we know for sure that something can't be explained with science? And why believe in an entity...

Do they "know" or just believe? If most of the world knows there's another "spiritual" world why hasn't it been able to be demonstrated to people who don't know about it? I'm open to new things but I haven't seen any evidence for a world or realm beyond ours. And are you saying demons only...

What is the supernatural and why is it different from natural? Why do people call things like ghosts or spirits supernatural? If they exist why wouldn't they just be considered natural phenomena that we haven't discovered or at least can't yet explain? The only time I can think of something as...

She isn't the one who made it an issue nor did she brag. This entire "controversy" was started by Republicans.

The reason why the tax reform isn't helping average families is because it was never meant to. It was a giveaway to the wealthiest members of our society and it has given us a trillion dollar deficit. Deficit to top $1 trillion per year by 2020, CBO says Senate tax bill would cut taxes of...

Also I wouldn't use Breitbart as a source as it is not a reputable news site. Much of their reporting is heavily biased towards the right and often false. Breitbart - Media Bias/Fact Check Editor Admits Breitbart Publishes Fake News

As someone with a Native American heritage I say that nothing Elizabeth Warren has done has been offensive or inappropriate. Way to much has been made over an inconsequential detail of her heritage. Calling her Pocahontas and posing with a dime store Indian to mock her the way Jason Chaffetz has...

Why do you think so many people made a choice to be poor, sick or drug-addicted? I have met a lot of poor people in my life and not one of them chose to be poor. If you live in the United States getting medical treatment can leave a person destitute. Maybe someone is refusing to go to the doctor...

From that humanism article: "The word umanisti derives from the studia humanitatis, a course of Classical studies that, in the early 15th century, consisted of grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and moral philosophy. The studia humanitatis were held to be the equivalent of the Greek paideia...

Thanks and it makes my point. Did you notice all those references to Greece and Rome? Nothing in that article contraindicated anything I said. You keep arguing against points I'm not making. And your shifting the goal posts. I'm not saying that people don't share ideas, I'm saying secular...

What? No my phone screwed up while I was working through my thoughts and it posted by mistake It took me a few minutes to get back on and change it.

Please ignore that. My phone crapped out for a minute and I had to edit that message. It says something completely different now.

I'm not saying Christians didn't make their contributions to humanism just that humanism isn't based on Christianity. There were a variety of people from different worldviews who made contributions to humanism.