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Thread: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
Post: RE: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
| (November 18, 2021 at 1:03 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I'd sooner have a Gordian knot that doesn't condemn women for having abortions than a straight-line, non-contradictory theism that causes its a... |
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Religion
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November 18, 2021 at 1:18 pm |
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Thread: Did Moses really write the first few books of the bible?
Post: RE: Did Moses really write the first few books of ...
| It's church tradition so probably quite a few of the faithful. But among critical scholars I would say none. The evidence against it is simply too overwhelming. There's also the problem that so much o... |
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Christianity
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November 18, 2021 at 1:11 pm |
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Thread: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
Post: RE: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
| Liberals tend to distinguish themselves from fundamentalists by their willingness to “interpret” scripture, such as determining whether a passage should be read literally or metaphorically. But this i... |
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Religion
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November 18, 2021 at 11:48 am |
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Thread: Did Moses really write the first few books of the bible?
Post: RE: Did Moses really write the first few books of ...
| Check out "Who Wrote the Bible" by Richard Friedman for an in depth discussion of this, but as stated above, the overwhelming consensus of biblical scholars agree the Pentateuch was not written by Mos... |
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Soberman921 |
Christianity
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November 18, 2021 at 11:42 am |
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Thread: Is Atheism Dead?
Post: RE: Is Atheism Dead?
| (November 9, 2021 at 12:54 am)Jehanne Wrote: One item that I would like to bring to the attention of the OP is that the book Is Atheism Dead? is very highly rated, much higher than, say, The God Del... |
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Soberman921 |
Atheism
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November 9, 2021 at 11:49 am |
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Thread: Is Atheism Dead?
Post: Is Atheism Dead?
| I noticed today that "Is Atheism Dead?" by Eric Metaxas occupies the top three slots in the Atheism category on Amazon. So the hardcover, Kindle version and audiobook are all outselling every other at... |
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Soberman921 |
Atheism
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November 5, 2021 at 12:13 pm |
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Thread: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
Post: RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
| Deism certainly refutes Christianity since a God that simply set things in motion is very different from the always interfering Christian God. The entire fine tuning argument of which so many Christia... |
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Soberman921 |
Atheism
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November 5, 2021 at 11:56 am |
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Thread: Alec Baldwin Shooting
Post: RE: Alec Baldwin Shooting
| There's a big difference between a gun owner shooting their own gun without checking to see whether its loaded and an actor firing a prop gun on a set in which the production company has hired someone... |
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News & Current Affairs
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October 28, 2021 at 12:16 pm |
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Thread: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?
Post: RE: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives ...
| When one speaks of meaning, the obvious question is "meaning to whom?" Meaning is necessarily subjective. In a lifeless universe, we could ask HOW a rock came to orbit a star but it would make no sens... |
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Soberman921 |
Atheism
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October 25, 2021 at 4:07 pm |
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Thread: The love of a God
Post: RE: The love of a God
| It never ceases to amaze me how Christians can cite free will for all the evils in the world, but God's plan for all the good. Giving God the credit for all the kindnesses people show you while blamin... |
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Soberman921 |
Religion
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October 20, 2021 at 6:09 pm |
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Thread: Why does God care about S E X?
Post: RE: Why does God care about S E X?
| (October 20, 2021 at 9:48 am)Ahriman Wrote: God would rather you masturbate than have sex with strange females. If you can't find a consistent sex partner, you're better off going solo. This is not ... |
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Soberman921 |
Religion
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October 20, 2021 at 2:15 pm |
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Thread: On the lunacy of free will
Post: RE: On the lunacy of free will
| (October 19, 2021 at 11:44 am)Ahriman Wrote: Evidence doesn't matter. . . . I'm really not sure why atheists have such a fetish for evidence.
Evidence matters because it is the common language that ... |
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Religion
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October 19, 2021 at 2:55 pm |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
| There is one more point I want to make about gospel authorship.
Papias, who, according to Eusebius, wrote in the early second century (maybe around 130 CE), was the earliest to name Mark and Matthew... |
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Religion
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October 8, 2021 at 12:41 pm |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
| (October 8, 2021 at 12:05 pm)ayost Wrote: The Gospel of Peter is a very short gospel, probably from 150 AD, although we don't have anything prior to the 8th/9th century. The Gospel of Peter tells a ... |
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October 8, 2021 at 12:28 pm |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
| (October 8, 2021 at 11:31 am)ayost Wrote: Again, without something definitive showing me that the gospels cannot be true, I have no reason to doubt what they say is true.
So here is where I would ta... |
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Religion
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October 8, 2021 at 12:11 pm |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
| (October 7, 2021 at 5:41 pm)ayost Wrote: So I go ok, it's reasonable to believe that what was originally written is what I'm reading. Then I read the 4 gospels telling me the same story form differe... |
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Religion
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October 8, 2021 at 11:47 am |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
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I just want to point out one thing and then I will respond to the rest later. I have to go for the evening. You accuse me of smuggling in a secret definition and not using the plain English de... |
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Religion
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October 7, 2021 at 6:08 pm |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
| (October 7, 2021 at 4:14 pm)ayost Wrote: I am defending the Biblical God. You defined a concept outside the Bible and then measured God inside the Bible with that concept.
I'm sorry, it just doesn... |
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Religion
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October 7, 2021 at 5:37 pm |
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Thread: Why does science always upstage God?
Post: RE: Why does science always upstage God?
| Ayost,
A perfect being is a complete being. It wants nothing. It needs nothing. It has no desires because to desire something entails missing something that would make it better, and it cannot be bet... |
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Religion
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October 7, 2021 at 3:48 pm |
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Thread: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
Post: RE: Can we trust our Moral Intuitions?
| Nudger, I'm going to skip quoting since it's beginning to get unwieldy. I don't think the sound analogy applies because, again my point isn't about a lack of sentient observers. Sound is what we descr... |
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Soberman921 |
Philosophy
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October 4, 2021 at 4:59 pm |
