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Genocide in the Old Testament
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:07 am
(September 26, 2013 at 12:05 am)Lion IRC Wrote: What have we got since the 20th century?

Smarter than theists.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:08 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 12:09 am by Ryantology.)
(September 26, 2013 at 12:05 am)Lion IRC Wrote: All the really useful science and technology was invented/discovered by theists.
The wheel.
The inclined plane.
Writing.
Making fire.

No wonder it took thousands of years to get from one advance to the next. Too busy praying to invisible monsters to think.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:45 am
(September 25, 2013 at 11:47 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:
(September 25, 2013 at 7:47 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Yeah, those damn scientists and their insatiable thirst for knowledge and refusal to rest on their laurels. Life would be so much better if everyone was just content with being a simpleton and drooling out "goddidit" as the answer for everything without bothering to figure out how anything works.

If you don't like the answers science gives you, feel free to stop reaping its benefits. We could weed out the gene pool very quickly if the devout would simply try live off prayer and faith.

I am very happy with the post-modern ambiguity of the jargon we get from folk like Lawrence Krauss.
You want gaps?

*Multiverse of the gaps. (This from the Occams Razor folk who tell intelligent design theists not to conjure up stuff)

*Quantum mechanics of the gaps. (But we wanted certainty Mr Heisenberg and you gave us chaos theory)

*Past-eternal universe of the gaps. (Groundhog Day? Really? THAT'S your "brute fact" answer to theistic creation?)

*Somewhere over the rainbow...one day we will know the answer. (THAT is gaps reasoning writ large!!! Can't you see how hypocritical it is for the kettle to call the pot black? Biblical theology says EXACTLY that about many things.)

Next time you wanna plead that whole..."one day we will discover the answer" cop-out, just substitute the words...God works in mysterious ways.

The bible says God did it. That statement is not altered or peer reviewed or subject to popular opinion. Science has the luxury of getting stuff wrong and changing the "facts" as it goes. (The "beauty of science" - we get to stuff up and rewrite a new tentative hypothesis and still pretend it is somehow a hallmark of high IQ)
Yeah fuck nonbeliever and all there inventions like: The light bulb, The internet, The telephone, Binary computers. Just to name a few.
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#324
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:47 am
It was a filthy, godless homo fag who created the basis for the computer that he uses to exercise his single brain cell on the internet. Because irony is funny.
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#325
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:04 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 1:05 am by Bad Writer.)
(September 26, 2013 at 12:47 am)Ryantology Wrote: It was a filthy, godless homo fag who created the basis for the computer that he uses to exercise his single brain cell on the internet. Because irony is funny.

I was just thinking this, but in less-colorful language. No less true.
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#326
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:18 am
Quote:The bible says God did it.


But the bible is a pile of shit.
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#327
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:21 am
Does the bible say how "God" did it? Because without that vital bit of information, it's just as much use to say Gandalf did it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#328
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:38 am
(September 25, 2013 at 11:47 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: The bible says God did it. That statement is not altered or peer reviewed or sUbject to popular opinion. Science has the luxury of getting stuff wrong and chaging the "facts" as it goes. (The "beauty of science" - we get to stuff up and rewrite a new tentative hypothesis and still pretend it is somehow a hallmark of high IQ)
This is the most egregious pile of road apples I've had the sad displeasure to step in(so far today, anyway). Way to dismiss progress for the yoke of a tyrannical bogeyman.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:39 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 1:40 am by Bad Writer.)
Obviously the mechanism for creation is God's breath. Haven't you ever seen something breathed into existence? Our buddy Statler-Waldorf once told me God-Breathing is a real thing. Look it up. Google it. It apparently works just as well as spells from Harry Potter.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:40 am
(September 26, 2013 at 12:47 am)Ryantology Wrote: It was a filthy, godless homo fag who created the basis for the computer that he uses to exercise his single brain cell on the internet. Because irony is funny.

Yeap, alan turing. Killed himself after being charged for being gay, in the 1950's. Fucking genius surrounded by morons
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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