Yes because it is morally reprehensible, arising from bad character, causing discomfort, repulsion and harm.
Because it doesn't appear to be true.
The question then arises, what is your experience representative of? Is it experiencing an external stimulus or is it all (quite literally) all in your head? An experience brought about by your neurology rather than your theology.
What is so interesting about that? Seems I watched the in an old Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
It does appear that an intelligent authority is the cause.
Based on your continual faulty assumption that if you think something looks designed then that means it was designed and not only that designed by an omniscient omnipotent being who is obsessed with the sexual activities of one of its hairless ape creations. That or your assumption that if evolution (or physics, geology, archeology, etc) hasn't explained something perfectly yet then therefore creationism is right (the "we don't have an explanation there we have an explanation" chestnut)
I guess we'll find out AFTER we die, huh? Do you believe that we die and that's it? No more knowing anything or afterlife of any kind?Based on your continual faulty assumption that if you think something looks designed then that means it was designed and not only that designed by an omniscient omnipotent being who is obsessed with the sexual activities of one of its hairless ape creations. That or your assumption that if evolution (or physics, geology, archeology, etc) hasn't explained something perfectly yet then therefore creationism is right (the "we don't have an explanation there we have an explanation" chestnut)
When you have a logical objective test that "an intelligent authority" caused anything let me know and we'll start to apply it rigorously.
Only if our mind persists after death. If not I'll never know I was right.
Yes. The mind is something inescapably tied to the structure and function of the brain. Alter the brain and you alter the mind, completely destroy a part of the brain and that part of the mind ceases to function. There is little reason to believe that if this occurs to the whole brain this is somehow different to part of it.
An interesting thought which I have heard in other forms before. The problem I find with it is that I then have to wonder what this soul is and if it continues would I identify with it in any way? For example my right pinky is a part of me but if it were somehow preserved into infinity I wouldn't consider that an afterlife, given I identify "me" so much with my mind I'm not sure I would treat my "soul" any differently to my pinky.
An interesting read and it summarises my problems with the idea of the soul perfectly. Everything I identify with being "me" can be tied back to the physical brain at least in some way whether I like it or not. If the soul is a real thing then I haven't the faintest idea what it would do that I would care about if it survived my death, I doubt I would recognise it if I could perceive it.
And your point being? Do your labels make it easier for you to dismiss my concerns without considering them?
On His cross the Lord said, "Father Forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Lk23:34KJV), because even though they were murdering Him, He still loves all His creatures and His creation, exactly as we love our loved ones, and as our loved ones love us, except perfectly. There is no such thing as random goodness, all goodness is from God, and "random" goodness that happens to you is not random but from God. There is random bad luck, but God permits it, but He does not execute it. We can prepare for random bad luck. We have to address certain safety issues is all, like do your brakes work. Nothing unreasonable. 1st Corinthians 2:8 KJV
Even if God were writing in the sky words to us with clouds, atheists could still explain it with science and failing that social science.