Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.
Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.
Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.
You’re not tracking the conversation. I understand historiography is hard. That’s not what we’re discussing. I’m not talking about historical research.
I’m talking about a way to differentiate between imagination and reality. We have a robust methodology in science to accomplish this. It’s very clear and works. Can you guess what I’m talking about?