Philosophy of Science
I wrote a paper on "Judaism without God"
I mentioned that in our tradition every generation has to understand "God" differently. That is the reason why some prayers mention the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. They are not the same, but different. As a "religious" Jew I maintain that in this generation we should see "God" as nonexistent, and therefore we are forbidden to pray to IT.
My religion is called Humanistic Judaism (http://shj.org)
I won't copy the whole paper here. I can send a copy to whoever wants by post.
Those who wrote to me about this paper only related to one of the first sentences and not to anything else in the paper. That sentence was "The philosophy of science is incompatible with a belief in "God". So I wrote another paper with a lot of footnotes of the sources of my claims that showed this incompatibility.
The most important item was pseudo explanations.
A valid explanation (or theory, or law) can predict what will happen as a result of certain events.
A good example is Einstein's theories of relativity. A number of results were tested and showed to be exactly what the theories maintained. They COULD have been different and if so would show that the theories were wrong. This means that the theories were falsifiable.
A pseudo explanation is not falsifiable. It doesn't matter what the results are the believers will find reasons why the explanation is still valid.
The rule in the philosophy of science is if a theory is NOT falsifiable then it should be ignored.
The existence of a "God" is such a pseudo explanation. There is no possible prediction that can show that IT doesn't exist. Example - there is evil in the world. A just and loving "God" who is all knowing and all powerful, COULD prevent bad things from happening (earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, wars, etc. etc.) .
Surely you are aware that in spite of these evils believers maintain that we should still believe in a just and loving "God".
Actually "God" is WORSE than Satan. Satan can't do anything without the approval of "God" - right ? That makes "God" EVIL for IT allows Satan to do what Satan does.
It is more reasonalbe to worship Satan than it is to worship a god.

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