24th Aug 2025

What do you think of my latest proposition: Anyone taking aspirin once a day will live forever. Is that a reasonable claim. Are you tempted to challenge my claim? If I say that those that believe in a god will get eternal life, that is not challenged.

If I say that I died three days ago but came back to life today, people will challenge me on that claim. Yet someone is said to have died but three days later came back to life. Upon resurrecting from the dead this chap then flew up into outer space without a space suit and without using a rocket. If I claim that I can fly into space by holding onto a firework, people will doubt that claim. They may ask me to prove it. If I ask them to prove their religious claims they will hide behind a wall of obfuscation.

Religious people make wild claims. Incredible claims that have no scientific credibility, claims that defy physics and defy all sensible rationality. We are supposed to respect those claims though. Why? Simply because they are items of faith and belief.

How can one claim that someone at the age of 500 had children? This is just one of hundreds of wild unfeasible ridiculous claims laid out in religious texts. People that believe in the veracity of these texts make lots of excuses, possibly saying that things in their belief system are not always to be taken literally. How convenient. They choose which claims are absolute and literal, and which are not.

Religious people will challenge you if you make a wild claim. They will not respect your wild propositions so why should we respect their religious beliefs. All actions, philosophies, ideals, moral standpoints need a good argument to support them else they are torn down. The arguments supporting religious claims undergo little mainstream scrutiny simply because of the notion that challenging religious claims is not respectful.