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What is God?
ErGingerbreadMandude Offline
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm (This post was last modified: August 7, 2015 at 5:31 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
(August 7, 2015 at 9:08 am)Chad32 Wrote: God is a tool. It gives people comfort, provides an easy explanation for things we don't know the real reason for, and helps people in power control the masses.

Am i a theist if i use God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained?
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:39 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 9:08 am)Chad32 Wrote: God is a tool. It gives people comfort, provides an easy explanation for things we don't know the real reason for, and helps people in power control the masses.

Am i a theist if i use God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained?

Yes. You're also probably wrong if you do.
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.

Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.

Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.

Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.

Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:42 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Lucanus Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm)pool Wrote: Am i a theist if i use God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained?

Yes. You're also probably wrong if you do.


If using God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained is wrong,which is the right way to explain what cannot be explained?
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#24
RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:42 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Yes. You're also probably wrong if you do.


If using God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained is wrong,which is the right way to explain what cannot be explained?

By explaining it? Without saying MAGIC FAIRY WOO WOO JESUS DUST WITH EXTRA SPRINKLES? O_o
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:46 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:42 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Yes. You're also probably wrong if you do.


If using God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained is wrong,which is the right way to explain what cannot be explained?

There isn't one. "I don't know" is not only acceptable, but preferred over making things up.
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:49 pm
Holy mother of ninjas, nice job you two!
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.

Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.

Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.

Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.

Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:53 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:46 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 5:42 pm)pool Wrote: If using God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained is wrong,which is the right way to explain what cannot be explained?

There isn't one. "I don't know" is not only acceptable, but preferred over making things up.

So basically a theist is someone that would respond "Because God." to explain something which cannot be explained and an atheist is someone that would respond "i don't know" to something which cannot be explained?
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:55 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:30 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 9:08 am)Chad32 Wrote: God is a tool. It gives people comfort, provides an easy explanation for things we don't know the real reason for, and helps people in power control the masses.

Am i a theist if i use God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained?

If you believe in a theistic god, yes.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:58 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:53 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 5:46 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: There isn't one. "I don't know" is not only acceptable, but preferred over making things up.

So basically a theist is someone that would respond "Because God." to explain something which cannot be explained and an atheist is someone that would respond "i don't know" to something which cannot be explained?

Ah... not necessarily.

Theist: a person who believes in a deity or deities.

Atheist: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in a deity or deities.

Notice that neither has to do with knowledge; that's a/gnosticism's job.
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RE: What is God?
August 7, 2015 at 5:58 pm
(August 7, 2015 at 5:42 pm)pool Wrote:
(August 7, 2015 at 5:39 pm)Lucanus Wrote: Yes. You're also probably wrong if you do.


If using God as a tool to explain what cannot be explained is wrong,which is the right way to explain what cannot be explained?

Why wouldn't you use fairies or wizards to explain something unexplained.
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