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Presumptuous, circular reasoning with many assumptions. If you assume 2+1 is 7, you will bend everything to show the gaps filled. It has not been proven that people are born into guilt, or that moral decisions are made from deist nudges. All through history, after humans have developed from lower forms, it has tried to figure things out. Trying to make things make sense is what each of us do. Science says I think...and then sets out to see if it's true and can be replicated. Religion says such-and--such is true, therefore I have to see everything through those lenses and try to prove it true, leaving aside what doesn't match up the story of religion, no matter how crucial it is disproving that religion. Specifics aside, even if the science worked out to prove that there is a god that started the cosmos, that doesn't mean it's the Jesus or Noah religions' god. Nor does it mean it's the god of Scientology or Mohammed. Maybe it's something altogether greater. Atheism simply means no theist belief. Everything else works out without god...even better than trying to make everything science has learned to fit in some archaic, misshaped box that can't even hold a sliver of the found wonders and awesomeness in the universe. The title is arrogant: Jesus or Nothing (with NOTHING struck out boldly). There is not "nothing" outside the belief in the various, differing Jesus stories. There is so much to learn, but I doubt this author has the time to read anything outside his Protestant book of contradictions. And he is too focused on what happens when a human being dies to invest in anything else. For the big claims of a heaven and a hell (which weren't invented until after the Jewish Bible was written), there is no evidence of any existence of the brain or soul or anything after the body dies. Billions have died without any shred of afterlife knowledge, except for a book that claims to be true because the authors of it says it's true. But I would expect that from a guy who thinks his species at this particular time, on a small planet at the corner of a galaxy, amidst billions of other galaxies, is a gift to the universe among universes. Arrogant, proud, and wrong.
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