Tag: ask an atheist

There does appear to be no shortage of physical churches in Spokane, though, they're far commoner block on block than Starbuck's or Zip's.

So far I haven't been asked any really silly questions.  I mean that.

Probably not.  As far as we can tell, to be a self-aware entity requires that we have a working brain, since we are what the brain does.

 In America it has turned into functionally an over the top cosplay party with virtually no religious connotation for most people, and the secular practice has spread to England where parents grump over having to buy bags of candy to gift the marauding disguised child extortionists as do their American counterparts.

Those who seek to see "intelligence in nature" may not have looked as close at the nature as they should have.

Nothing. Dying is not unlike going to sleep, when our consciousness shuts down, only this time no waking up.

I am presuming the questioner means how is it that we have the atmosphere we do today.  That's a fairly easy one.