Many atheists are angry because they reject being bombarded by status quo opinions that are rooted in systemically flawed belief. An intellect mired in theological study, faces the cold hard fact that atheists, generally, are more inclined toward Nature and physical reality than the ideologically in...

Anyone else care to comment? My question was intended to be more generic than a specific mythology. I meant mythology as a genre, a type of literature, JRR Tolkien wrote what some have called the greatest book of the 20th century and others have called the greatest book of the 2nd millenia. Western...

Small correction. Transubstantiation is the belief that wine and bread are physically changed into the flesh and blood of Christ. In the Catholic mind set this is not a symbolic transformation but an actual miracle that happens at each mass and has its roots in the last supper not the first miracle...

When I refer to miracles, I mean specifically the unnatural events claimed by Christianity to have happened in defiance of verifiable natural laws. can we pick one? i mean can you give one as a specific example? Water into Wine (John 2: 1-11) Water being changed/poured into wine can represent trans...

astrological and spiritualising ideologues continue to confuse our common sense with fanciful symbolic connections that suit their irrational moments of 'inspiration'. Thankfully, miracles can be rationalised within nature. I agree that miracles can be rationalised within nature. However, that does...

youkrst suggested some reading material related to allegory and ended with: 'bed is symbol for physical body that the soul "sleeps" in wake up!' I am not sure of the inference. However, in my waking moments, I have read a little A B Kuhn, J Campbell, J Harrison, B Bauer, E Gibbon and other...

The statement implies that these unusual events mask actual historical situations. However, attempts to connect the large number of 'supernatural happenings' with profane history have left us with secular differences of opinion only equaled by the gale force of religious Theo-babble that divides the...

Excellent points. My view is that all supernatural claims originated as allegory, as symbolic ways of explaining real experiences and observations. But over time the psychological and social processes of religion led to the allegories wrongly being interpreted as literal truth, and then institution...

Ant, your constant requests for qualification of rather easy to understand statements suggests to me that your requests are facetious tricks intended to score cheap debating points. I will answer a few but will not be drawn into schoolyard 'debate'. Your questions are followed by my response. (Pleas...

There are two main reasons why the constant demands for 'evidence' of supernatural events bore some people, and frustrate others: 1. Academically qualified theists are tied to the Christian status quo, while the less qualified demonstrate their inability to rationalize by retreating from any discuss...