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    Thread: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?
Post: RE: Is Easter based on a pagan tradition?

(April 14, 2013 at 1:57 am)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote: Jewish people is essentially a 19th c. Zionist invention. I think you just flushed any point of credibility that you migh have had down the toilet. I u...
EGross Christianity 75 28954 April 14, 2013 at 2:45 am
    Thread: Why prophet married aisha.
Post: RE: Why prophet married aisha.

@A_Nony_Mouse : Actually, the entry that you are highlighing as "women children" is the Hebrew word na'arah, the male form being na'ar. Na'arah always is assigned to a never-has-been-married female of...
EGross Islam 24 7532 April 14, 2013 at 1:17 am
    Thread: Atheism is "finally dying out"
Post: RE: Atheism is "finally dying out"

The great thing about the internet, is that you need not miss anything. You can even watch a B&W video of Richard Feynman giving a lecture on the Scientific Method.
EGross Atheism 26 8080 April 13, 2013 at 1:56 pm
    Thread: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fall of reason
Post: RE: Meliorism - The rise of neo-atheism and the fa...

This has been an interesting thread. Unlike being part of a religion, where there is leadership, authority figures, and heirarchy, atheism is devoid of all of those trimmings. And so, by taking on th...
EGross Atheism 118 58056 April 12, 2013 at 10:30 am
    Thread: From Seminary to Atheism
Post: RE: From Seminary to Atheism

Well spoken
EGross Converts' Corner 22 4955 March 21, 2013 at 12:58 pm
    Thread: Theists: what does your god want for you?
Post: RE: Theists: what does your god want for you?

This whole problem, where believers cherrypick what they like about their faith (Note Catfish' sig.), is that there is stuff that they all find weird or repugnant ("those who will not follow me, bring...
EGross Religion 161 38704 March 21, 2013 at 5:27 am
    Thread: Your childhood misconceptions
Post: RE: Your childhood misconceptions

I thought that the sun and the moon were the same, it just got dimmer at night. I believed in unicorns until my religious mother told me it was all a crock! I knew that if I put on a cape, I could des...
EGross Off Topic 24 3912 March 21, 2013 at 5:15 am
    Thread: God is the great spirit friend
Post: RE: God is the great spirit friend

I agree that mystical events are real. I had a whole bunch in my younger years, thanks to the illegal pharmecutical industry. As an athiest, I also have meditated for long periods of time, and have h...
EGross Christianity 320 101325 March 21, 2013 at 4:55 am
    Thread: The 'old testament' argument
Post: RE: The 'old testament' argument

(March 19, 2013 at 5:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Everything was good until Adam and Eve sinned. How come your fucking "god" didn't know that was going to happen? It's the perfect "There is no suc...
EGross Religion 53 21617 March 21, 2013 at 4:50 am
    Thread: The Absolute Truth
Post: RE: The Absolute Truth

Ever see the movie or play "Harvey"? What harm was there in Elwood believing in Harvey? His best friend. He was happy. His life was fulfilled. And everyone loved Elwood. Elwood was the kind of person ...
EGross Christianity 107 35736 March 21, 2013 at 1:00 am
    Thread: How to tell a real freethinker
Post: RE: How to tell a real freethinker

(March 21, 2013 at 12:38 am)radorth Wrote: Quote:Despite the fact that everything we know about the universe around us points to the conclusion that space magic is impossible and that god has been r...
EGross Christianity 74 21687 March 21, 2013 at 12:52 am
    Thread: Proving God Existence
Post: RE: Proving God Existence

Let's see, this higher power, for some reason, out of the 100 million galaxies, to pick this one, and out of all of the plantets, to pick this one, and out of all of the species to pick humans, and ou...
EGross Philosophy 640 240946 March 19, 2013 at 9:02 am
    Thread: If God is all mighty,why doesn't he change bad people/seiners into good ones?
Post: RE: If God is all mighty,why doesn't he change bad...

In recent news, it has been reported that God gave a newborn baby Aids, but was later cured by a human doctor, named Dr. Gay. The same technique has been used in France to cure 14 others. The doctors...
EGross Religion 54 20215 March 19, 2013 at 8:35 am
    Thread: God is the great spirit friend
Post: RE: God is the great spirit friend

(March 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Before anything existed, there was God in H'shem. God looked over everything and saw in H'Shem's nature that H'shem would make out of all of H'shem's joy ...
EGross Christianity 320 101325 March 19, 2013 at 8:16 am
    Thread: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
Post: RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

You are going to talk about brain activity to catfish?! I don't know if he will relate.
EGross Atheism 511 187593 March 19, 2013 at 8:13 am
    Thread: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
Post: RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

(March 19, 2013 at 2:24 am)catfish Wrote: If you could hold a live, undeveloped fetus in your hands, could you crush it if you knew what it was? Let's say that you have in hour hand a one week old h...
EGross Atheism 511 187593 March 19, 2013 at 3:33 am
    Thread: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
Post: RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

Let's say that you have an embryo is it human? Does it have a soul? This is one of the religious arguments that I have often heard. So what happens when it splits in half? Do you end up with 2 souls s...
EGross Atheism 511 187593 March 18, 2013 at 10:42 am
    Thread: Women have equal rights. Except in Islam.
Post: RE: Women have equal rights. Except in Islam.

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a great read. She was born in Somalia, and moved from place to place until she left Islam, and ended up being put in a bazooka-proof house to be kept alive for her crime....
EGross Politics 19 6553 March 17, 2013 at 3:50 pm
    Thread: New atheist.. question
Post: RE: New atheist.. question

Change the word "God" to "Aphrodite", and listen to how weird it sounds. It means the same thing, depending on which supernatural entity or entities you want to be a slave to. Quote:Aphrodite has a ...
EGross Religion 55 11950 March 17, 2013 at 3:43 pm
    Thread: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...
Post: RE: Atheists, the death penalty and abortion...

A Fish? A Catfish? Catfish: A bottom feeder that lives on shit. :roflol:
EGross Atheism 511 187593 March 17, 2013 at 3:41 pm