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    Thread: To Atheists: Who, in your opinion, was Jesus Christ?
Post: RE: To Atheists: Who, in your opinion, was Jesus C...

(January 7, 2024 at 2:57 pm)GUBU Wrote: (January 6, 2024 at 7:44 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Then IMHO you have not truly examined the evidence. Personally on AF, I myself do not engage in discussion...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 50 1488 January 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm
    Thread: To Atheists: Who, in your opinion, was Jesus Christ?
Post: RE: To Atheists: Who, in your opinion, was Jesus C...

(January 6, 2024 at 12:51 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Hoo boy. You sure have swallowed a lot of misinformation. I think that, given the available evidence, it is impossible to know who or what Jesus Christ...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 50 1488 January 6, 2024 at 7:44 pm
    Thread: How worthless is Philosophy?
Post: RE: How worthless is Philosophy?

Perhaps there is no escaping having a philosophy and the choice is btwn good philosophy and bad philosophy.
Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 125 4510 November 15, 2023 at 7:29 pm
    Thread: Soteriology
Post: RE: Soteriology

Wow, this thread unravelled fast. :-) not even an attempt to seriously ask a question or address anything seriously. Seriously,...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 12 1053 October 20, 2023 at 6:40 pm
    Thread: Which do you want to go?
Post: RE: Which do you want to go?

If I lose my metal facilities I could be a burden or danger to others whereas I grew up on a farm and know how to deal with waste.
Neo-Scholastic Off Topic 13 712 October 17, 2023 at 3:43 pm
    Thread: Who or what is "Nature's god"
Post: RE: Who or what is "Nature's god"

To the OP, Nature and Nature's God was just another way of expressing a concept that seemed intuitively obvious at the time that if there are natural laws then there must be a lawgiver. They did not ...
Neo-Scholastic Atheism 26 1664 October 4, 2023 at 9:50 pm
    Thread: SCIENCE FINALLY PROVES....
Post: RE: SCIENCE FINALLY PROVES....

As a semi-professional artist who has actually used a camera obscura, I can say with absolute certainty that the image on the shroud was not produced by using one. To suggest it was demostrates laugha...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 149 7127 September 28, 2023 at 8:18 pm
    Thread: God's omnipresence
Post: RE: God's omnipresence

There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 87 5029 September 27, 2023 at 9:05 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?

(September 19, 2023 at 8:43 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: There's all sorts of total nonsense "according to the Bible". It's not really a very reliable standard for validating what is true. https://lifeles...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 17627 September 19, 2023 at 9:24 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?

Yeah well, @bucky Ball, I guess that all depends on whether holes exist in any meaningful way. Technically holes are just an absence, the lack of something, and yet it is still possible to quantify an...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 17627 September 18, 2023 at 10:21 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?

(September 5, 2023 at 5:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: It seems to me that in most times and in most places, religion is more about ritual and performance than about assent to propositions. It's something pe...
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 17627 September 9, 2023 at 12:50 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?

@FruatratedFool - if you are truly interested in knowing why I personally recommitted myself to Christ after decades of atheism, then we could have that conversation by PM. :-)
Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 17627 September 7, 2023 at 3:43 pm
    Thread: Brevity Burns
Post: RE: Brevity Burns

They are different concepts. Eficiency focuses on achieving results quickly and with minimal resources, while clarity emphasizes ensuring that the message is easily understood by its recipients.
Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 23 1633 August 23, 2023 at 7:56 pm
    Thread: Brevity Burns
Post: RE: Brevity Burns

(August 22, 2023 at 9:29 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 22, 2023 at 1:20 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Brevity has it's place, so does meticulous instruction. Sweeping generalizations, even brief one...
Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 23 1633 August 23, 2023 at 7:32 pm
    Thread: Any Nihilists here?
Post: RE: Any Nihilists here?

...because you say so. :-(
Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 351 9530 August 22, 2023 at 10:34 pm
    Thread: Any Nihilists here?
Post: RE: Any Nihilists here?

(August 18, 2023 at 7:34 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and that utterance failed the apparent nihilist test as soon as it employed the word "higher". Purposes cannot be higher or lower. Nor can they ...
Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 351 9530 August 18, 2023 at 8:42 pm
    Thread: The Reason I'm Atheist
Post: RE: The Reason I'm Atheist

(August 18, 2023 at 3:53 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: It sucked to be religious. Because you have to live with cognitive dissonance. It sucks to be atheist. Because you have to accept psychological di...
Neo-Scholastic Converts' Corner 60 3835 August 18, 2023 at 4:08 pm
    Thread: The Reason I'm Atheist
Post: RE: The Reason I'm Atheist

(April 12, 2023 at 4:48 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (April 12, 2023 at 12:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Right, lol?  There's a hell of alot of mileage between less miserable and perfect.  Best possible...
Neo-Scholastic Converts' Corner 60 3835 August 18, 2023 at 4:05 pm
    Thread: One sentence scary stories
Post: RE: One sentence scary stories

No one was going to save him.
Neo-Scholastic Off Topic 25 1214 August 16, 2023 at 2:07 pm
    Thread: Top Book Recommendations
Post: RE: Top Book Recommendations

The collected short stories of Jorge Louis Borges. .... ... .. Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell by Swedenborg Divine Comedy by Dante . .
Neo-Scholastic The Arts 17 953 August 14, 2023 at 10:36 pm