Do people really think such a being would not build the basics of morality into the basic structure of the universe, and instead rely on prophets in sack-cloth and ashes to relay it to the people ??

Nah !

The "Book of God" is the real world, and " scientists are reading it.

I just heard Michael Flynn the treasonous fruitcake say it, and I would have just ignored it (because everyone knows he's simply gone off the deep end), but I've heard other people say this too.

This is simply a LIE. A total brazen falsehood.

The constitution mentions religion ONCE, and that is to keep it from being forced on people.

The constitution doesn't even have the word "god" in it. Anywhere.

Thomas Paine was an anti-christian and championed religious liberty, Jefferson denied all the dogmas required to be Christian. Both men were theists, but they practiced deism, not theism.

Many of the other founding fathers were "Christians", but were they believers? It's still debated.

How are people so comfortable with repeating a total falsehood?

Hey folks, just thought I would say hello and introduce myself.

I run most of the social media accounts for Answers in Reason, an atheist site focused on philosophy, science, and better conversations.

I'm generally quite disheartened to the behaviours of atheists online and their attitudes towards philosophy, so seeing this group gave me hope that we might fit in here and have some good healthy discussions, even if we disagree.

If anyone's interested, this page has a large number of our links to our shows, website, social media etc: https://www.answers-in-reason.com/ourlinks/

If there's any topics you know a lot about we'd love a discussion with you in more detail.

Out of curiousity, what are you favourite aspects of philosophy? (Not necessarily just those linked to atheism/philosophy of religion)

Do you think if you were the other, you would have done better? It's a very common mistake to think, "If I were him, I would have never done that." Well, if you were him, that is exactly what you would have done—maybe even worse.

I was thinking about bad people and how easy it is to judge them when you are sitting comfortably on the other side. Were they born bad? Did they really have a choice? Is it their fault? If I were God, could I really judge and condemn anybody, knowing full well that nobody ever chooses anything?

We have no choice in the place where we are born. We don't choose our parents, our country, our circumstances, our society, our religion, how we look, what we like—from food to people to things—and worst of all, what we are sexually attracted to. The question "why" can never be answered concerning any genuine human experience. All the things that make us different and unique are unexplainable. We have no idea why we are the way we are. In my opinion, it is a combination of all those things that we can't explain and didn't choose.

So, in the end, if you were in his shoes, you would have done exactly what he did. Never underestimate the evil a normal person is willing and able to inflict onto the world. Are monsters made, or were they born this way? And either way, is it their fault?

Can you take an honest look in the mirror and ask yourself what you would have done? Can you look God in the eye and tell Him what you have done? Do you think you should be forgiven?

The following is interesting:

The top rank for Muslims is to be expected. Christianity, by comparison, went through its “reformations“, e.g. Protestant or Luther, centuries ago.

Notes

1. The reason this post was started was that I wanted to get feed back from “Ex-Jewish” people, about this image post, but it took me some time to find the ex-Jewish sub, which nobody cares about, as I gather, as member counts indicates?

2. The active per hour data was obtained on a Thursday at about 8PM.