Isn't it possible that the practice of prayer makes people better people? Helps them to manage horrors in a productive and loving way? Connects them emotionally to people who experienced trauma?
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Who told you science was so scary? Take a deep breath- science is all around you. It’s there when you sleep. It’ll be there tomorrow.
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Who said science was scary?
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The people that ask us to accept Jesus into our lives because we speak facts.
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That logic doesn’t follow. Believing in God and Jesus doesn’t mean that they believe science is scary. Science in the description of God’s created order.
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I’d explain it to you, but God won’t let you listen to reason apparently.
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Well, I am in great company both presently and historically considering the vast majority of intellectual history comes from people who believed in God. I’m good with being in the company of those “reasonable” people.
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What intellectual history are you referring to?
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At least from Plato/Aristotle up to the present day, the vast majority of the philosophical, metaphysical, scientific, political, and theological intellectual traditions were from people who believed in God. That’s easily verified.
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Believing in God’s sovereignty over His creation is not the same as believing prayer is a magical formula to stop atrocities. But you create a false conflict, prayer and works are an obligation in the Christian religion
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if i was in a position where i had to rely on people who believe praying can help them feel understand ease or cure my emotional trauma or on taking a pill to help me manage that pain... oh wait i am i have two severe mental illness the pills work your praying doesnt
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Go for it Neil
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I’m allergic to religious nuts
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That's not what the tweet said. Swing....miss
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Christopher Hitchens: of course I have free will, I have no choice.
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wtf, how come I've been following Tyson for months and the only time I see his tweets is when you reply to them?
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what people that believe in intelligent design of this Earth of this plane that we exist on
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