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RE: Weird things theists have told you
January 6, 2015 at 7:01 pm
(January 6, 2015 at 1:36 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I just remembered one from 13-14 years ago, back on the AOL forums. I used to regularly visit the weirdly mixed religion forums they had. One of the evangelicals said in all earnestness that scientists had proven the existence of hell because they heard screams coming from a volcano.
I shit you not.
She was verbally eviscerated by atheists and theists alike for that one. Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
This, you mean?
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.asp
I'm not surprised she got crucified.
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: Weird things theists have told you
January 7, 2015 at 2:05 am
Back in 2004, when I was a firefighter/EMT, I responded to the home of a dear old lady. In the course of conversation, she dropped this chestnut: "I don't know about these wars now-a-days, Christians fighting Muslims and such, why can't it be like old times when Christians killed Christians."
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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RE: Weird things theists have told you
January 7, 2015 at 11:20 am
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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RE: Weird things theists have told you
January 7, 2015 at 12:53 pm
(January 6, 2015 at 7:01 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (January 6, 2015 at 1:36 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I just remembered one from 13-14 years ago, back on the AOL forums. I used to regularly visit the weirdly mixed religion forums they had. One of the evangelicals said in all earnestness that scientists had proven the existence of hell because they heard screams coming from a volcano.
I shit you not.
She was verbally eviscerated by atheists and theists alike for that one. Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
This, you mean?
http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.asp
I'm not surprised she got crucified.
Ha! I didn't even know that was a fairly well-known hoax. It's just so dumb on the surface of it, I'm surprised anyone would fall for it.
Oh theists... you so crazy!
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RE: Weird things theists have told you
January 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm
A conversation with my own mother:
Me: "I do not believe in god or anything supernatural"
Mother: "So you speak to the devil?"
. . . *facepalm*
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RE: Weird things theists have told you
January 9, 2015 at 6:37 pm
(January 9, 2015 at 5:20 pm)PhiloTech Wrote: A conversation with my own mother:
Me: "I do not believe in god or anything supernatural"
Mother: "So you speak to the devil?"
. . . *facepalm*
To be fair, Satan throws the
best parties.
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