What does religion do for mankind that the statement "Be kind" doesn't do better?

Actually it's correct, it's the written form of 'Tongues'.

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That’s not what it’s about.
A preacher can be an atheist pretending to know about God. Jim Jones is an obvious and perfect example.
It may even be the case that 99% of preachers fall into this category, but it says nothing about the reality of God.

Jan.

 

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It wasn't about the reality of gods. It was about the efficacy of religion.
Easy to confuse, conflate or confound the two.

 

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Lefties are to blame for fundy illiteracy, got it.
How about the fundy dishonesty - same cause?

 

Fundies!
Lefties!
Different sides of the same coin.
You tell me.

Jan

 

Hardly. If you have an intelligent response, make it.

To refresh your memory, the question is: How is your God different from rubbing crystals? Be specific.

 

You attempted to make a supposed expertise of clerics equivalent to the expertise of doctors.

 

"You wish...?" Is this a form of prayer? Who would hear your wish, much less understand it? What do you mean??

 

Their expertise is equivalent.
Why would you think otherwise?

Jan.

 

Well, that's down to atheists, regardless of political stance.
Fundies need something to balance the unfair advantage atheists take of facts and reason.

99% charlatanism in medicine would result in a 1% patient recovery rate.
This is not the case.
In fact, it's not even the case with clergy.
Granted, people are not expected to recover from religion, and yet approximately 14% do.

 

You claim a poster has trouble with English and you use the, "word", "fundie", in your post, when you mean, "fundamentalist."

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Ya, them, too.

 

Your q appears so plainly asinine. If you expect some sort of response, you would have to explain how they could possibly be similar.

 

Actually a poor fund of knowledge doesn't make anything capable of performance. Therein lies the problem driving the maintenance of your staged comprehension difficulties.

Your case is more akin to deliberately manufacturing poor performing fuel because, IYHO, fuel manufacturing "is like, duuuh."

 

Nobody else seems to think so. Maybe you just can't tell your asinine from your elbow.

I know you well enough not to expect an intelligent response from you.

If you claim there's a difference, the onus is on you to point it out. I have already mentioned the similarities. I pointed out in message #32 that neither God nor crystal-rubbing has any (demonstrable, repeatable, etc.) effects.

 

Then ask them.
Btw, huge difference between "nobody" and "my pastafarian fart joke telling buddies".

 

I'm asking you. Do you have an answer or are you just going to continue spewing empty bluster?

 

If you can't explain the intelligent basis of your question your interests are best served by asking it to people who are not concerned by such prerequisites (such as pastafarian fart joke cracking atheists, for example).

 

I can and I did. Why can't you just answer it instead of trying to be clever?

 

You have not explained how your comparison is straightforward. This is the problem.