On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 7:28 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Samiya argues a straight up case based on texts in the Koran and does > not actually think for himself.* I agree except I think "Samiya" is a female name. > there is no reasonable argument actually given for the existence of God > or Allah or any such being. True, but rational argument really has nothing to do with it. People believe God or Allah exists because their mommy and daddy kept telling them that God or Allah existed since the time they were in diapers. Why else would there be such a strong correlation between geography and religious belief? If nobody said anything about religion to children until they were 16 and had the capacity to think rationally (even if they didn't always choose to do so) there would be vastly more atheists in the world than there are today, and learning where an adult was born wouldn't help you much in figuring out what his religion was now that he had grown up. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> unm ngi > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv37UUshAs-%2Bcn9KyjuwEPzsPW3%2BMbzNsqVgXeHrU3dx%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
