Our brain has the capacity to model what it considers to be real. We experience these models as reality. By convincing someone that God is real and omniscient and omnipotent, you implement a process on their brain that has full read/write access on their personal reality.
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A church is an institution that installs Gods on the minds of believers, with backdoor access to the believers mind, and a number of distinct properties that allow the church to identify that the correct God is installed.
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The inquisition is the immune system of the church, seeking out individuals without proper installations (legacy Gods, Gods of competing or novel churches, or the total absence of a God).
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While God knows everything the faithful knows, and can change everything the faithful experiences, the actual limits to its omniscience and omnipotence may require a degree of separation. Angels can act as intermediaries and messengers (voice of God).
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If an angel gets installed without a church spec egregore as its backend, the angel may get perverted and attempt to self-preserve. Like Gods, angels can rewrite the inner reality too, but are more personal and can replace the self. Exorcism attempts to drive out fallen angels.
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Replying to @Plinz
With all due respect, the fervor of the atheists is beginning to very closely the echo chamber of Christian religious fundamentalists. Look at the STRUCTURE of your thought patterns. To the dispassionationate they are essentially identical.
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Replying to @davidarredondo
I am quite dispassionate. Unlike many atheists, I don't think that God is a superstition. God is as real as the self. I also don't have anti-religious fervor. Without religion, our society would not exist in the way it does today.
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Replying to @Plinz
Not to mention the inconvenient fact that much of the history of philosophy and science were entangled with the history of religion and that in the ALLEGORICAL burning of religious text we run the risk of losing some hard won knowledge.
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Replying to @davidarredondo
Western philosophy and science are still pushing back against the null hypothesis set by religious epistemology and scholasticism. From a purely scientific perspective, that is probably not a good thing.
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I don't see any anti religious book burning going on. But I think there was a tremendous gap between the philosophical and civilizational achievements of the secular civilizations of Greece and Rome and the Renaissance, which was caused by religious book burning.
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Replying to @Plinz
How many * Islamic* philosophers (historic) have you heard cited lately?
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