"Muslin religion" is a particularly interesting if infelicitous typo.

Maybe it wasn't a random typo, maybe God made her type that.

(whistles nonchalantly). I have no idea what you all are on about. I never make typos! (cough)

That's not a reason to believe. That's a reason to trick people you don't trust into believing. If you use that reason for yourself, you are trying to trick yourself into believing.

What was that jingling sound?

the music of the spheres, man!

So, basically, something you pulled out of your ass. Just like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, ad nauseum.

Isn't that what happens all round? Men fight for religious rights. Would women?


It makes me wonder if women were the religious leaders if there would be all this chaos and war?

Well maybe chaos at times but I am sure our nesting instinct would take over. I wonder how that would look.

yes, women would, and have, fought for religious rights. But I don't think they've been involved much in the decision making of the Muslim heirarchy.

the Muslin heirarchy, perhaps.

Whattaya mean, trick? Why would I try and trick myself, do you think? Do you really think I have to? Frankly, I never worry about whether other people have religious faith or not -- though their behavior can certainly give me a clue. My motivation here is utilitarian. The people who credit an afterlife tend to be better behaved, and are taking a larger perspective rather than staying rooted deep in selfishness. Try looking at it from that viewpoint and see if I ain't right on this one, too.

No, you're not. Whether belief makes someone behave in a certain way has no relationship with whether it is true or not.

You haven't tried yet, I see. Quit dicking around.

How did you get to this, I'm curious?

I have found people who believe in an afterlife and people who don't believe in an afterlife to be perfectly equal morally.

A true man of the cloth.

The movie First Knight (1995) with Sean Connery and Richard Gere.
Little antiquated, but...:eyebrow: