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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
March 26, 2015 at 10:39 am
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(March 26, 2015 at 10:35 am)Riketto Wrote: So tell me Thack.
Suppose in a previous life you kill or you commit any crime and the cops never got hold of you.
Would you really think that you can get away with that in this life or maybe you think that we live only once so if we do something wrong and the cops don't get us we are just lucky?
How do you know that he wasn't used as an agent of the cosmos to inflict suffering on someone who had done wicked things in their own previous life? Or is it that your version of the universe is one big cycle of suffering because god sucks at administering justice?
What is with the recent explanations from theists that make god out to be a fumbling, incompetent douchebag? And you think you're explaining why he's a
good being? And you think that
we hate god????
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
March 26, 2015 at 11:31 am
What a hokey pile of utter bullshit.
You can't just say "but what if..." or "maybe..." and then make up a load of junk.
Victim blaming is appalling.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
March 26, 2015 at 11:33 am
Who left the If thread door open?
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
March 26, 2015 at 11:44 am
I dunno, but past lives are hokum. Sure, it sucks that there is no "cosmic justice" but pretending it all sorts itself out in other lives is pure fantasy. And very dangerous thinking if it leads to blaming people for being a victim or getting ill.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
March 26, 2015 at 11:57 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:16 am)Riketto Wrote: I however follow what make sense while you are following fantasies.
Either you are projecting, or you are deranged. Possibly both.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
March 26, 2015 at 1:51 pm
*scratches another competitor off the list*
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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