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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 6:30 am
(December 23, 2013 at 6:24 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(December 23, 2013 at 6:17 am)savedwheat Wrote: He created it perfectly in 1.1.

The same 1:1 that goes on to assert it took him six days? And your one argument against this is that the word "creation" should have been translated as "restoration," isn't it?

So...Thinking

I don't think he knows whether he's coming or going at this point. Confused Fall
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 6:45 am
Interesting, somehow I feel we are getting baited Dodgy
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 6:53 am
(December 23, 2013 at 6:45 am)LastPoet Wrote: Interesting, somehow I feel we are getting baited Dodgy

Yep.

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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 7:41 am
(December 23, 2013 at 6:17 am)savedwheat Wrote: He created it perfectly in 1.1.

Agreed.
Uncontroversial/orthodox.

Ignore the atheists trying to teach you exegesis. They don't know and they don't understand.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 7:59 am
I think we know enough to recognise when the rain on our backs is just someone pissing over us.
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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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 8:01 am
(December 23, 2013 at 4:50 am)savedwheat Wrote: The eyewitnesses involved their eyes, so a delusion couldn't apply here.

We don't know that those are eyewitness accounts. There is no corroboration outside of the Bible.

Besides, the Gospels disagree with each other.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 8:57 am
Seriously, guys?... 14 pages in half a day??
And you expect the rest of us who sleep in on the first holiday of the season to keep up??

Meh...

RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

Let's analyze all the most common options:
- Should I be a christian?
- Should I be a jew?
- Should I be a muslim?
- Should I be a buddhist?
- Should I be a hindu?
- Should I be a viking?
- Should I be a roman?
- Should I be a classical greek?
- Should I be a Mayan?
- Should I be an Inca?
- Should I be an animist?
- Should I be a shamanist?
- Should I be an aboriginal?
- Should I be a Mauian?
- Should I be a crate cultist?

If you answer "no" to all but one of these questions, then I can surely find someone who'll answer "no" to your "yes" and "yes" to some other that you answered "no".
It seems they're all equally man-made, hence a blanket "no" to all is the most honest position.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 9:34 am
(December 23, 2013 at 8:57 am)pocaracas Wrote: Seriously, guys?... 14 pages in half a day??
And you expect the rest of us who sleep in on the first holiday of the season to keep up??

There wasn't much to keep up anyway Rolleyes
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 10:12 am
(December 23, 2013 at 9:34 am)LastPoet Wrote:
(December 23, 2013 at 8:57 am)pocaracas Wrote: Seriously, guys?... 14 pages in half a day??
And you expect the rest of us who sleep in on the first holiday of the season to keep up??

There wasn't much to keep up anyway Rolleyes
Good to know... I haven't missed much by not reading the whole thing! Wink
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 10:22 am
(December 23, 2013 at 4:50 am)savedwheat Wrote: The eyewitnesses involved their eyes, so a delusion couldn't apply here.

ROFLOL

The brain interprets data sent from the optic nerve. If you think the brain is incapable of misinterpreting that data your education is lacking.
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