• Feds charge Catholic “vow of poverty” friar with fundraising under multiple false aliases
• Catholic school safe environment coordinator fired after arrest for possessing child porn
• Mormon church broadens restrictions for transgender members
• Pastor gets 18 months for $3.5-million COVID scam
• Doctor says accused rapist priest has dementia, trial date set
• Brazilian priest abused young girls, forced one to have abortion
• Former youth minister is charged with 30 counts of sexual battery
You can’t see the wind but its real
The effects of the wind are producable, observable, and repeatable. Science.
Wind can be measured by its effect on the physical reality we can confirm is objective through observation and experimentation; imaginary friends need believers to have any effect at all, otherwise dead gods and gods with no followers would be measurably different categories.
That’s the entire point… wind is a physical part of our world
The wind doesn’t usually molest children.
Metaphysics is by definition outside of physics, and hence is indistinguishable from non-existence (not being a real thing). The moment metaphysics or a metaphysical entity (God) interacts with the physical world, that mechanism of interaction would become testable/verifiable - and cease to be “Godly” (it’d become a testable, verifiable, probabilistically consistent mechanism of physical dimension).
Thus an interventionist God can’t exist in any meaningful or knowable sense, and a non-interventionist God may as well not exist for now.
True. Well, now that that’s settled, who’s everyone’s favorites for the playoffs?