Experimental Christianity

[Cheerful Charlie]

Of course not.  That's why they need to be shit on.

The one thing they think they are entitled to is "respect" for their asinine beliefs.  That must be denied to them.  They need to be told, repeatedly, that they are morons for thinking such shit is real..

This whole idea is not to respect or disrespect theology and religion.  it is about restoring science like rigor to the whole operation.  Science does not allow one the be skeptical and rigorous with say, chemistry, but relax that rigor with respect to say, Bigfoot or parapsychology.  Parapsychology is so riddled with unscientific rigor, most scientists (except a few kooks) regard it as pathological science, pseudo-science.

The study of God has been relegated to theology and metaphysics, philosophy.  While theology tries to lower the bar as far as reasoning about God.

Parapsychologists have long held, parapsychological testing is impossible because rigorous scientific skepticism destroys those abilities in talented subjects that they try to test.  This sort of bad rationalization, special pleading has gotten parapsychology laughed out of the right to call itself a science.

My suggestion is to apply a scientific framework to theology.  If theology can shake off its current lack of vigor and demonstrate anything meaningful.  Fine.  If not, theology needs to be officially pronounced as not science and not acceptable as being on the same empirical level as natural science.

That is, to make theologians dance to science's tune, rigor, rigor, rigorous testing.  And abandonment of metaphysical navel gazing.

The usual claim from theists is that science does not disprove God.  Oh yeah?  Science starts with "Why do you hypothesize X?
What observable things leads you to hypothesize X?".  With theology, we can start here.  Or is this just an ancient and failed idea with no basis to consider true?  Like astrology, and the ancient discredited ideas of the 4 elements of medical humors?