Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The cult many are in but don’t realize" video.

  1.  @etiennepilorget8777  The difference between a Christian and an atheist, in most cases, is that a Christian knows what he's taking on faith. An atheist makes innumerable assumptions of which they are unaware. To me, at root, Abrahamic religion is basically two things: "I Am." This is the fundamental assertion of self-awareness, and the Name of God is "I Am." "Life Is Good." So, basically, "Life is good and I know it." And all of Judaism and Christianity boils down to that basic act of faith. After that, it's a matter of man-made doctrine and dogma, to me. IMO, Jesus was trying to teach us how to treat each other. The free ticket to Paradise is more of a hook that organized religion uses to recruit and keep people in line.
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  2. Good stuff, as always. Thank you!
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  3.  @str.77  So you reason from the fact of a flawed dogma that there is no God. That's a huge leap of faith or a total lack of reasoning powers and logic. Science is silent on the existence of God. There is no experiment you can design to test the hypothesis. But go ahead and be like Sam Harris in the enormous leap of faith that you have to make when you jump from poking holes in one man-made dogma to the conclusion that there is no Divine/transcendent intelligence. If you're a scientist, all you can say is "There is no proof or disproof of the existence of God." Some questions are and shall remain open for a long time to come. Be humble. Admit you don't know. Be an agnostic if you don't buy King James's idea of what God is.
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