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comment by briandmyers
briandmyers  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Leiter, “Why Tolerate Religion?”

God hasn't written a book. No one has seen anything he's done. He does have a rep, though. So does Santa.





briandmyers  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And if you can demonstrate something that god has done, I'll bet you could collect a million dollars from the Randi Foundation.

StephenBuckley  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Why can’t I submit a religious or spiritual claim?

    Because they are, for the most part, untestable.

trinitymike  ·  4303 days ago  ·  link  ·  

untestable claims are pretty much useless in terms of determining their truth. That's fine if you are claiming something as a subjective opinion or truth i.e. " I don't feel well." or " Lady Gaga sucks"...However, if you're making an assertion about something being a fact, if we can't test the truth of your claim, then, sorry, we feel no need to believe you.