Journal

What is Religious Baggage?

For many folks, religious holidays are a time for celebration. For other folks, they are a periodic reminder of pain and suffering often inflicted by religious believers. It hurts me deeply to know that so many of my fellow humans are part of such widely accepted, deeply troubling, historically (and contemporarily) terrorizing philosophy without a solid rational foundation.

Why disbelieve?

First of all, disbelief is the default state. There are an infinite set of things that don't exist but a finite set of things that do. The burden of proof is on the believer. Despite religious text being comforting or maybe even convincing, none of it crosses the threshold into evidentiary support for a basis of truth.

Where does trouble hide?

If you’re lucky, you get a stack trace, but this stack trace is almost always squirreled away inside a container or server log. If you’re testing a website in a browser, this typically means finding a terminal window or log file and copying and pasting file name into an editor, possibly with a line number, to find the code that caused the issue.