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*Matthew enters*
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22nd January 2011, 22:03
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*Matthew enters*
Hi everyone,
Matthew here, a Christian from the UK, joining the forum to talk about different views of the world and theistic belief in particular. I became a Christian a few years ago while at university. I love reading and discussing philosophy, theology and biblical studies, and I hope to find others here with similar interests. Look forward to meeting and learning from you, |
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Matthew
--------- "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis |
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22nd January 2011, 22:55
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RE: *Matthew enters*
Welcome along.
Why would you want to come to an atheist forum to discuss theistic belief? 
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22nd January 2011, 23:03
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Matthew
--------- "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis |
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22nd January 2011, 23:43
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RE: *Matthew enters*
(22nd January 2011 23:03)Matthew Wrote: Hi Darwinian, Yes, well that's putting it politely. |
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Kudos given by (1): Moros Synackaon |
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23rd January 2011, 01:13
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Matthew
--------- "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis |
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23rd January 2011, 02:25
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RE: *Matthew enters*
Winnie did have a way with words.
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23rd January 2011, 07:57
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RE: *Matthew enters*
What were you before a christian and why did you convert?
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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan |
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23rd January 2011, 10:39
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RE: *Matthew enters*
Hello Matthew, welcome along.
P.s is your avatar pic a picture of Raptor Jesus hatching from his egg? 
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23rd January 2011, 11:52
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RE: *Matthew enters*
Greetings from Oz Mathew.
Hope you have a tough skin |
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"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5 |
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23rd January 2011, 12:45
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RE: *Matthew enters*
(23rd January 2011 07:57)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: What were you before a christian and why did you convert?I was a nihilist prior to becoming a Christian. I was unable to be a consistent nihilist either rationally or existentially, and God opened my eyes to see that. God pursued me until I admitted that what the Bible teaches about Him and about the world is true. |
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Matthew
--------- "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis |
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