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    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(January 8, 2017 at 7:18 pm)Jehanne Wrote: (January 8, 2017 at 4:29 pm)Balaco Wrote: If I'm gathering this all correctly, I think I may have to agree with these points. To be fair I haven't looked...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 January 20, 2017 at 6:58 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(January 8, 2017 at 9:13 am)Esquilax Wrote: (January 7, 2017 at 10:16 pm)Balaco Wrote: It's been quite a while, so I should probably pop in and mention that I'm still looking into the validity of ...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 January 8, 2017 at 4:29 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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It's been quite a while, so I should probably pop in and mention that I'm still looking into the validity of religion, though I've toned it down over the past few weeks due to various reasons. Tomorro...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 January 7, 2017 at 10:16 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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Quote:Quote:Why does God allow the Bible to be so "unclear" at times? "Unclear" may not be the best word to use in the title, but I didn't really know how to condense my thoughts.  I know Christians...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 18, 2016 at 7:31 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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Looking through Luckie's links last night as a reference, I began investigating the teleological argument as presented to me by a Catholic (who copy-pasted it from a video). I'm told that this particu...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 18, 2016 at 6:55 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(December 12, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: (December 12, 2016 at 9:40 pm)Balaco Wrote: If Catholicism for example turns out to be the "correct" faith (or if it simply has the most accurate t...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 15, 2016 at 7:55 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(December 12, 2016 at 2:04 pm)Luckie Wrote: Balaco, from what I can tell, you're more interested in the theological side to "why you should become am atheist", and a rather superficial one at that. ...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 12, 2016 at 9:40 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(December 11, 2016 at 7:51 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: Toranic and biblical depictions of a "maximally great" yhwh shows a being that can do less than what humanity is currently capable of. Hence yhwh isn't...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 11, 2016 at 7:01 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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Operator, I plan on responding to your points in more detail, but I feel like I should do a little more research before responding to some of them. For now, I will say that the "test of faith" has com...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 10, 2016 at 9:35 pm
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(December 5, 2016 at 7:13 pm)operator Wrote: (December 4, 2016 at 2:57 pm)Balaco Wrote: I know that, and depending on the atheist or theist perspective, the response to that would be that it's a t...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 7, 2016 at 7:36 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(December 4, 2016 at 8:41 am)operator Wrote: (December 3, 2016 at 7:13 pm)Jesster Wrote: Yeah, I'm far more interested in the questions Balaco is asking and how he's using his answers. I hope he k...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 4, 2016 at 2:57 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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Don't worry, I'm going to stick around at least until I feel like I've made a genuine conclusion about the existence of God. Currently I've been looking a little more into why Christians believe in G...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 3, 2016 at 8:12 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(December 1, 2016 at 2:16 pm)Luckie Wrote: OP I put together a few links you may find relevant.  The first has a list of all the transitional fossils. I'd do a search for Tiktaalic, it's the trans...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 December 1, 2016 at 10:22 pm
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Sorry for falling behind on all the posts...I'm on a pretty tight schedule this week and I can't really make too much time to look into things as extensively. (November 28, 2016 at 8:43 am)Tazzycor...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 29, 2016 at 8:51 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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Good to see a few pages' worth of posts since my last. I don't have too much time on my hands and only got to skim so I'm planning on responding to some tomorrow. On a quick note, though, (November ...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 28, 2016 at 10:41 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(Sorry if this comes up as a double post) In response to the posts about tests of our faith, from my understanding their moreso for our benefit so that we can determine our strengths/weaknesses, grow...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 27, 2016 at 10:11 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(November 27, 2016 at 12:09 pm)johan Wrote: (November 23, 2016 at 7:14 pm)Balaco Wrote: I was taught that God doesn't give us undeniable proof of his existence as a test of faith...those with righ...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 27, 2016 at 10:08 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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(November 27, 2016 at 1:22 am)Luckie Wrote: (November 27, 2016 at 12:55 am)Balaco Wrote: I was told I can't link this thread there. :begging: Oops my bad! *smacks forehead I'm a former mod on h...
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 27, 2016 at 9:29 pm
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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I was told I can't link this thread there.
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 27, 2016 at 12:55 am
    Thread: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
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I'll ask the Catholic Forum I've been using if it's cool to link this thread there. Definitely would be interesting to see more theists in the mix here.
Balaco Atheism 596 92777 November 26, 2016 at 9:10 pm