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    Thread: Books on dealing with suffering
Post: Books on dealing with suffering
Does anyone know of any good books on the subject of dealing with suffering in life as an atheist? Personally, I'm doing fine, but watching the news you can see the potential horrors life can throw at...
 rybak303 Atheism 14 7737 January 18, 2012 at 11:07 am
    Thread: Evil is evidence for God
Post: RE: Evil is evidence for God
Hi, yes I do read all these replies. I have been searching as to which side on the debate between atheists and theists (mostly Christian) have the best case. So after reading books from both atheist...
 rybak303 Atheism 13 5531 August 17, 2010 at 10:52 pm
    Thread: Evil is evidence for God
Post: Evil is evidence for God
I have heard the following argument used for the existence of God. Since I doubt anyone will say that the actions of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer are not truly evil then I say the following makes a g...
 rybak303 Atheism 13 5531 August 17, 2010 at 3:01 am
    Thread: The Big Bang is evidence for the existence of the supernatural
Post: The Big Bang is evidence for the existence of the ...
I have often heard creationists say that everything in existence must have been caused by something else thus leading to a chain of causes all the way to God Himself. To which atheists respond, “Then...
 rybak303 Atheism 64 44478 August 17, 2010 at 2:53 am
    Thread: Why should we love love beyond what is necessary for gene survival?
Post: Why should we love love beyond what is necessary f...
If mankind is nothing more than an animal like any other animal and our sole purpose is to propagate our genes then what value do love, compassion, and forgiveness have in themselves other than helpin...
 rybak303 Atheism 1 1345 August 17, 2010 at 2:50 am
    Thread: Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
Post: Can emotion be a way to truth as reason is?
I am often confronted by Christians who say that just as they have faith in the bible I have faith in reason. I reply that I do not have faith in reason but rather that I have have trust in reason j...
 rybak303 Atheism 14 5757 August 17, 2010 at 2:45 am
    Thread: What meaning does love have to an atheist?
Post: What meaning does love have to an atheist?
If God does not exist, if there is no eternal spiritual realm beyond the temporal material realm where reason and emotion have their ultimate foundations what meaning does love have? In an atheist wo...
 rybak303 Atheism 45 16724 August 9, 2010 at 7:21 am
    Thread: How can Atheists trust science if a non-material realm of ideas and truth does not ex
Post: How can Atheists trust science if a non-material r...
If the universe consists of a material realm only and there is no such thing as a non-material/spiritual realm of higher ideas and absolute truth. If our reason and science is only the interactions o...
 rybak303 Atheism 10 4058 August 9, 2010 at 7:16 am
    Thread: Does objective truth mean the existence of absolute truth?
Post: Does objective truth mean the existence of absolut...
Through logic objective truth appears to exist. To claim otherwise, that truth is relative, is to make a statement of objective truth, hence contradicting the claim that truth is relative and affirmi...
 rybak303 Philosophy 7 7041 August 9, 2010 at 7:12 am
    Thread: “If ideas exist and are not material than a non-material/spiritual world may also exi
Post: “If ideas exist and are not material than a non-ma...
I have heard that most atheists are materialists in that they believe the universe consists of a material realm only and that therefore there are no realms beyond matter that one could label as potent...
 rybak303 Atheism 5 2313 August 9, 2010 at 7:08 am