Scott Matte

@RobertWeb56439 @hookskat Killing innocent children because of other people’s crimes is not justice. How would you feel if the government executed your child because the person down the street committed a crime? Would you call that justice?

Because God is just, he punishes evil. Pharaoh stood for the whole nation , made decisions for the whole nation. He refused Moses and God 12 times. He played chicken with God until God was forced to do this. The Egyptians had held a whole nation in brutal slavery for hundreds of years, They had made themselves rich off the backs of Hebrew slaves. They refused to free them so God made them free. Finally, there is are at least 2 hidden assumptions in your statement. Firstly, you cant think of a reason why God did this so you believe there cannot be one. Thats what we call a non sequitur. The conclusion does not follow from the premise. Secondly, you do not and can not know what God knows, He knows everyone and everything. You stand 3000+ years away knowing nothing in comparison to Him but believing you can accuse and condemn him. A brave decision to say the least. Try reading Is God a moral monster or Did God command Genocide by Paul Copan? two of many good books on the subject. You owe it to yourself to be well informed on the counterfactual to your statements.

How is this not repugnant? God didn't check for innocents in the house only blood on the doorposts. Then killed innocent children because of a hard hearted pharaoh.… oh, and god hardened Pharaoh's heart for his own purposes.

@LeeStew05802633 @Askwhyisit What an interesting comparison. So the stories of the flood and the plagues are just stories written by an author. They’re just imagination and they didn’t really happen.

@Askwhyisit Is an author evil when they kill off people in their novels? A programmer when killing people in a video game? His story is His to with as he wills. Call God evil all you want, but He's still the one who can end it all with a thought.

Drowning everybody on earth except one family is one of God’s evil acts that have to be redefined as loving. Killing innocent first born.

@AndrewZywiecMD Psychiatry deals with the brain, not the soul.

Psychiatry is an attempt to deal with the soul while denying its existence.

@mariocarnivore @AndrewZywiecMD They were psychologists, not psychiatrists.

It has become that way over the years but its roots were not that way. Carl Jung talked about the soul as did Sigmond Freud. The difference between then and now is. It was originally rooted in individualism and finding your true self. Now it is rooted in collectivism and being just like everyone else.

@salzer_ryan I think any sane person would tremble if you cover yourself in someone else’s blood. That’s crazy.

When you are covered by the blood of Jesus, demons tremble.

@Askwhyisit You say priest have the power to exorcise the, but they seem to really struggle with that. Sometimes they aren’t successful.

Please explain why God allows demons to enter us and why priests have the power to exorcise them, which seems to counter God's good work.

@HetkeBrian @PhilosophyOfPhy My position goes well beyond Chalmer’s view. It reframes the hard question and leads to an answer that is teleological.

@ScottMatte @PhilosophyOfPhy Ok, you can use the words that way. But then the hard problem of consciousness becomes the hard problem of sentience. Which is fine, as long as everyone is using the words the same way.

Quantum Immortality is a mind-bending thought experiment based on the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. It suggests that from your own subjective perspective, you can never experience your own non-existence. You cannot "experience" the branch where you are dead. Therefore, your consciousness must always follow the branch where you survived.

@GregsonDarren What about all those children who will go to Hell at that time? Will they not be harmed?

When the trumpet sounds, there will be no more harming the children, it is surely so close.

@HetkeBrian @PhilosophyOfPhy It means they are sentient. By sentient I mean they are able to experience qualia. By conscious I mean they have awareness of self.

That is not the phenomenal consciousness philosophers mean for instance in the hard problem. That is being aware of being aware. Phenomenal consciousness is experience of any kind. For instance, when someone is blackout drunk walking around in the world, there is no doubt that they are experiencing. Which means they are conscious.

@NE0TRUTH @OperHealAmerica The evidence I’ve seen shows exorcists having to go through exorcisms many, many times and it’s not always successful. I’ve seen a pastor get oppressed by a malevolent spirit. So the claim that they tremble at the name of Jesus is bullshit.

@OperHealAmerica Show evidence, you just make claims without real proof

Demons still tremble at the sound of His name. The name of Jesus.

@OperHealAmerica No, they don’t. I take it you’ve never actually encountered one.

@cl4rk_burner @AtasEdmund31044 How did they fall? What did they do?

@AtasEdmund31044 There are many fallen angels Do you think free will ceases to exist in the afterlife

If Satan is the one tempting people to sin then who tempted satan to sin in heaven? Religion insults human reasoning and conscience.

@meCal3b @UkonzeE @MattSmethurst Someone has said that if God were judged by his own standards he would go to Hell.

@UkonzeE @MattSmethurst I'm illiterate? Sure, mate. 🙄 Jesus (Iēsous) told us to judge the fruit, and that bad fruit can’t come from a good tree, and the fruit of YHWH (Yahweh) is bad (evil), that makes him a bad tree. Make sure you really know the Elohim/Theos/God that you’re worshipping.

The Lord didn’t check who inside the house was worthy. He checked for blood on the doorposts. None of us is worthy. Only the blood of Jesus can cover us.

@MattSmethurst Isn’t he supposed to be all-knowing? Why would he need marks on the doors to know who to skip over? It makes no sense.

@p0rkswordactual @yiffzer @mariakari1414

@yiffzer @mariakari1414 You’re not even American.

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 This morning the Hon. Judge Bennett granted our TRO in our lawsuit against the Texas Comptroller for excluding Islamic schools from the state's school voucher program. Judge Bennett extended the voucher application deadline to Mar. 31, protecting Muslim families from being shut out while the case moves forward. (Please encourage Muslim families to apply even if they can't pick an Islamic school yet!). The Judge also said several times during the hearing that the fact that ZERO of 30 Islamic schools have been approved does not reflect well for the state. This is a good first step to ensuring Muslim parents in Texas have the same access, same choices and same opportunity to direct their children's education.

@D_Preacher_1 Neither.

Religion says doubt is a sin. Science says doubt is the beginning of knowledge. which one actually discovers truth?

@HetkeBrian @PhilosophyOfPhy Sure it has. When you drive somewhere but you don’t remember the trip, you were behaving unconsciously, much like sleepwalking. That’s people behaving unconsciously.

@ScottMatte @PhilosophyOfPhy Unconsciousness has never been experienced. It’s a made up state, no reason to think it actually exists.

@0ccultbot “All is number” -Pythagoras

The Pythagoreans believed the triangle to be the most sacred symbol. It was regarded as the key to unlocking all hidden wisdom.

Sir Isaac Newton asked a question for the ages: if an apple falls, does the Moon also fall? And he realized that he didn't have the mathematics to calculate a falling Moon. So what did he do? He invented his own mathematics, called calculus. And the theory that followed was one of the greatest of all time—Newton's law of gravity. During the Black Death of 1666, one of the greatest minds in history moved us away from superstition and thrust us into the age of mechanics and the Industrial Revolution. He changed world history—you can't beat that. Albert Einstein is way up there, so is Richard Feynman, but Isaac Newton tops them all.