Your scholarship has been more thorough than my own. I'll sign off on your belief in BM's new improved vaccine stance. Hard not to like the guy regardless.

(January 18, 2017 at 11:21 am)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:Why do atheists constantly use words like religion is evil, atheism good, when these terms are meaningless in a Godless Universe?

You don't even get to first base, do you.  Religion (all religions, not just yours) is merely bullshit.  Religious people can be - and the higher up they go in the chain the more frequently they are - miserable sons of bitches.  As the saying goes "no one has ever been stoned to death by atheists."

Well if we want to look at the moral argument, when people blame religion for bombings and wars in general, they seem to ignore the tragic history of the 20th century, which saw more deaths from acts of violence and oppression than all previous centuries put together. These were systematically inflicted on millions of people by their own governments. Names like Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot have become infamous, all atheists. So to say that atheism is this harmless belief system, is very flawed indeed.

Quote:nor will it allow me to type 'christian' with an upper case 'c'.

Try Christards.

(January 18, 2017 at 4:37 pm)Pulse Wrote:

(January 18, 2017 at 11:21 am)Minimalist Wrote: You don't even get to first base, do you.  Religion (all religions, not just yours) is merely bullshit.  Religious people can be - and the higher up they go in the chain the more frequently they are - miserable sons of bitches.  As the saying goes "no one has ever been stoned to death by atheists."

Well if we want to look at the moral argument, when people blame religion for bombings and wars in general, they seem to ignore the tragic history of the 20th century, which saw more deaths from acts of violence and oppression than all previous centuries put together. These were systematically inflicted on millions of people by their own governments. Names like Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot have become infamous, all atheists. So to say that atheism is this harmless belief system, is very flawed indeed.

Oh... is it time to bring out the Hitler card?
Can I? Can I?!
PLEASE!!!!!

(January 18, 2017 at 4:41 pm)pocaracas Wrote:

(January 18, 2017 at 4:37 pm)Pulse Wrote: Well if we want to look at the moral argument, when people blame religion for bombings and wars in general, they seem to ignore the tragic history of the 20th century, which saw more deaths from acts of violence and oppression than all previous centuries put together. These were systematically inflicted on millions of people by their own governments. Names like Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot have become infamous, all atheists. So to say that atheism is this harmless belief system, is very flawed indeed.

Oh... is it time to bring out the Hitler card?
Can I? Can I?!
PLEASE!!!!!

Even Christopher Hitchens has said the Nazis were obviously Pagans, Not Christians.

And again, for those who ask how do I know God exists, Its a simple look at the Evidence, The Universe cannot "pop" out of Nothing, the fallacies of Krauss notwithstanding, the DNA is obviously a Code with information Even Dawkins admits it;

[T]here is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. R. Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 115.

To encode Information ALWAYS requires Intelligence and to deny this obvious observation is to deny reality.

(January 18, 2017 at 4:29 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Your scholarship has been more thorough than my own.  I'll sign off on your belief in BM's new improved vaccine stance.  Hard not to like the guy regardless.

Hell, never do that!  I don't trust my damned memory, you'd be a damned fool to!

@Pulse: I think it's fair to think that you don't have anything of substance to support your case, since all you're doing is attacking someone else's to make yours look bigger.

(January 18, 2017 at 4:43 pm)Pulse Wrote:

(January 18, 2017 at 4:41 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh... is it time to bring out the Hitler card?
Can I? Can I?!
PLEASE!!!!!

Even Christopher Hitchens has said the Nazis were obviously Pagans, Not Christians.

And again, for those who ask how do I know God exists, Its a simple look at the Evidence, The Universe cannot "pop" out of Nothing, the fallacies of Krauss notwithstanding, the DNA is obviously a Code with information Even Dawkins admits it;[T]here is

enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. R. Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 115.

To encode Information ALWAYS requires Intelligence.

The Nazis were German people. They never (or seldom) called themselves nazis.... they were more nationalists (remind you of someone?)
Religiously, they were as diverse as the German population.... which means mainly Christian.

But Hitler.... well.... it's complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_...olf_Hitler.... but tending to christianity.

(January 18, 2017 at 4:57 pm)pocaracas Wrote:

(January 18, 2017 at 4:43 pm)Pulse Wrote: Even Christopher Hitchens has said the Nazis were obviously Pagans, Not Christians.

And again, for those who ask how do I know God exists, Its a simple look at the Evidence, The Universe cannot "pop" out of Nothing, the fallacies of Krauss notwithstanding, the DNA is obviously a Code with information Even Dawkins admits it;[T]here is

enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over. R. Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 115.

To encode Information ALWAYS requires Intelligence.

The Nazis were German people. They never (or seldom) called themselves nazis.... they were more nationalists (remind you of someone?)
Religiously, they were as diverse as the German population.... which means mainly Christian.

But Hitler.... well.... it's complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_...olf_Hitler.... but tending to christianity.

I really don't know how you can come to that conclusion when the wikipedia article you posted clearly says ; "there is a consensus among historians that he became hostile to religion, especially Christianity, towards the end of his life"
And " He is generally believed to have been skeptical of religion, but opportunistic and shrewdly aware of its influence on politics."

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(January 18, 2017 at 4:54 pm)Stimbo Wrote: @Pulse: I think it's fair to think that you don't have anything of substance to support your case, since all you're doing is attacking someone else's to make yours look bigger.

I have made my case as to why I believe a couple of posts above, so it's not just questioning Atheism.

I was going to give Pulse the benefit of the doubt, but I've definitely changed my mind. You come in here with a message of "don't persecute me" and then proceed to shit all over atheists as much as you can instead of arguing a valid point. Christians like you make Christians look like absolute asshats. This is certainly not how to persuade people, if that was even your intention in the first place.