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    Thread: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
Post: RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?

(October 18, 2018 at 6:19 pm)Dragonfly Wrote: (October 17, 2018 at 5:02 pm)SteveII Wrote: You have been thoroughly saturated in fundamentalist Christian doctrine. Even that, I doubt. I know your s...
SteveII Atheism 222 27140 October 19, 2018 at 12:32 pm
    Thread: For those who believe the god of abraham was behind the big bang or evolution
Post: RE: For those who believe the god of abraham was b...

(October 19, 2018 at 8:56 am)android17ak47 Wrote: (October 18, 2018 at 12:18 pm)Aliza Wrote: I think you're reading this from the perspective of how you were taught as IFB... and by the way, I'm r...
SteveII Religion 49 7646 October 19, 2018 at 12:14 pm
    Thread: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
Post: RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?

(October 17, 2018 at 12:57 am)Dragonfly Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 10:50 am)SteveII Wrote: I'm sure you are wrestling with all this and I hope you find a way through it. However, I do want to poi...
SteveII Atheism 222 27140 October 17, 2018 at 5:02 pm
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

(October 17, 2018 at 10:34 am)OakTree500 Wrote: (October 17, 2018 at 10:06 am)SteveII Wrote: 1) Saying that miracles are not an accepted fact is question begging. What kind of miracle-seeking expe...
SteveII Atheism 1167 87995 October 17, 2018 at 3:10 pm
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

(October 16, 2018 at 5:55 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 9:18 am)SteveII Wrote: It is only begging the question if I am making an argument for the existence of the supernatural by mir...
SteveII Atheism 1167 87995 October 17, 2018 at 10:06 am
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

(October 16, 2018 at 5:40 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 9:18 am)SteveII Wrote: It is only begging the question if I am making an argument for the existence of the supernatural by mira...
SteveII Atheism 1167 87995 October 17, 2018 at 9:08 am
    Thread: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
Post: RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

(October 16, 2018 at 4:39 pm)Grandizer Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 4:23 pm)SteveII Wrote: Wait, if the first chapter of Genesis 1 is a different genre (poetry) than the rest of Genesis; meant to b...
SteveII Christianity 614 63421 October 17, 2018 at 8:13 am
    Thread: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
Post: RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

(October 16, 2018 at 3:50 pm)Grandizer Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 9:26 am)SteveII Wrote: I disagree. If you do not know where the text comes from, who wrote it, when, the type of literature and t...
SteveII Christianity 614 63421 October 16, 2018 at 4:23 pm
    Thread: Atheism is unstoppable.
Post: RE: Atheism is unstoppable.

(October 16, 2018 at 11:33 am)Nay_Sayer Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 9:32 am)SteveII Wrote: I understand. You don't really want to have a discussion on the reasons or anything. You just want to pro...
SteveII Atheism 107 10851 October 16, 2018 at 11:49 am
    Thread: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
Post: RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?

(October 13, 2018 at 3:29 pm)Dragonfly Wrote: So I started studying the Bible, creation, evolution, science, cosmology, and I came to the conclusion that the evidence for evolution is just too great...
SteveII Atheism 222 27140 October 16, 2018 at 10:50 am
    Thread: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
Post: RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

(October 16, 2018 at 10:08 am)Jehanne Wrote: (October 16, 2018 at 9:26 am)SteveII Wrote: I disagree. If you do not know where the text comes from, who wrote it, when, the type of literature and th...
SteveII Christianity 614 63421 October 16, 2018 at 10:42 am
    Thread: Atheism is unstoppable.
Post: RE: Atheism is unstoppable.

(October 16, 2018 at 2:50 am)PRJA93 Wrote: (October 15, 2018 at 3:05 pm)SteveII Wrote: Your opinion is that it will die off. You don't seem to have any reasons it will die off.  Your ability to h...
SteveII Atheism 107 10851 October 16, 2018 at 9:32 am
    Thread: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
Post: RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

(October 15, 2018 at 4:55 pm)Grandizer Wrote: There are many ways to study writings, including textual criticism and sharing one's personal thoughts on what they just read.I disagree. If you do not ...
SteveII Christianity 614 63421 October 16, 2018 at 9:26 am
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

(October 15, 2018 at 9:04 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Quote:Your mistake is the larger set of reasons/beliefs that form the context. It's inductive reasoning based on the fact that brain tumors do not ge...
SteveII Atheism 1167 87995 October 16, 2018 at 9:18 am
    Thread: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
Post: RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

You can't study Genesis 1 without textual criticism: Quote:To understand what scholars are talking about when they discuss the "J" or "E" or "P" Text of Genesis, it helps if we look closely at the fi...
SteveII Christianity 614 63421 October 15, 2018 at 4:33 pm
    Thread: Atheism is unstoppable.
Post: RE: Atheism is unstoppable.

(October 15, 2018 at 2:27 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: (October 15, 2018 at 10:15 am)SteveII Wrote: I honestly don't know. I do know that religion is here to stay. I think countries will wax and wain in their...
SteveII Atheism 107 10851 October 15, 2018 at 3:05 pm
    Thread: Atheism is unstoppable.
Post: RE: Atheism is unstoppable.

(October 11, 2018 at 6:32 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (October 10, 2018 at 3:32 pm)SteveII Wrote: People are not getting the memo: Just out of curiosity, Steve, do you see the rest of the world becoming...
SteveII Atheism 107 10851 October 15, 2018 at 10:15 am
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

(October 13, 2018 at 9:32 am)Grandizer Wrote: (October 12, 2018 at 2:56 pm)SteveII Wrote: No but having 27 documents that carry the same basic message and churches the believe that same basic mess...
SteveII Atheism 1167 87995 October 15, 2018 at 9:56 am
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any? Simplified arguments version.
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any? Simplifie...

(October 11, 2018 at 3:21 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: "Evidence for god. Do you have any?" recent topic had long and complex arguments, which I had hard time following. I would like to see the same top...
SteveII Atheism 112 11667 October 12, 2018 at 3:00 pm
    Thread: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?
Post: RE: Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

(October 12, 2018 at 10:59 am)Grandizer Wrote: (October 12, 2018 at 10:28 am)SteveII Wrote: All the NT documents were written within the life of eyewitnesses and possible rebuttal witnesses. This ...
SteveII Atheism 1167 87995 October 12, 2018 at 2:56 pm