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What are your answers?
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#81
RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:15 pm
And another thing you said you KNOW god is good because you BELIEVE he has a better sense of justice. Isnt there an obvious problem with that reasoning?
If I die and god is real, im so screwed.
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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:17 pm
(August 25, 2011 at 3:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(August 25, 2011 at 3:37 pm)salty Wrote: Who are you talking about, when you say half the people that ever lived? Are you talking about before the flood? Do you believe the flood happened? If you don't believe it happened, then what does it matter (shrug)? But if you DO believe it happened, then you can trust that God was telling the truth when he said that he could see their hearts were wicked and he was sorry he made them. (Gen 6:5-6)

Atheists are forced to speak in the hypothetical until such time as evidence is provided. Don't read too much into it.

Are you sure we can't be friends? Am I being too forceful?
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#83
RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:20 pm
(August 25, 2011 at 4:15 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: And another thing you said you KNOW god is good because you BELIEVE he has a better sense of justice. Isnt there an obvious problem with that reasoning?

Honey... knowledge is an assumption of correctness. Ergo: it is taken on faith to be true.

So no... it seems 100% tautological to me.
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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:21 pm (This post was last modified: August 25, 2011 at 4:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If you could let go of the ideas of inequality by cosmic decree, eternal punishment for transient crimes, and vicarious salvation sure.

(Sae to offer up the daily dose of solipsism..lol)
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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:23 pm (This post was last modified: August 25, 2011 at 4:24 pm by Violet.)
(August 25, 2011 at 3:33 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: I still have yet to have a christian answer me about how they feel comfortable saying god is good when half of the people who have EVER lived are supposed to suffer for believing the wrong thing. Seriously? How are you comfortable with that?

Ladislas Krstic: "That's enough, I'm about to shoot a beautiful woman and her retard stable boy, and yet I will sleep like a baby."

(August 25, 2011 at 4:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (Sae to offer up the daily dose of solipsism..lol)

It's existentialism -_-

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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:26 pm
That does it! I'm going back in time to save jebus from the crucifix....then knife him when I get him out of sight. Then destroy all traces of the body. No martyr, no 2,000 year long problem.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:27 pm
(August 25, 2011 at 1:09 pm)salty Wrote: Good call. We are loud with our beliefs, I never looked at it that way.

Glad to see you agree.

Seriously, I can hardly go anywhere without seeing someone promoting their religious beliefs. I went out yesterday and saw a guy wearing a hat that said "I LOVE JESUS". I can't drive down the road without seeing a car sporting a "GOT JESUS?" bumper sticker. I can't go to the store without seeing someone wearing a "Jesus is my savior" T-shirt. I was at Disney World and saw a plane skywrite the message "JESUS LOVES YOU". I don't know how many times I've gone into a public restroom and found some stupid religious pamphlet sitting on top of the urinal. I can't tell you how many times I've walked down a street and encountered somebody holding up a sign saying "REPENT!" while they loudly spouted "Jesus died for our sins!". And it's annoying as hell when some sanctimonious pinhead bangs on my door to hand me their religious literature.

Frankly, I don't care what you believe. But when you proclaim what I consider to be nonsensical beliefs as "truth" in a public forum, I'm going to speak up and challenge you to provide evidence that what you're saying is true.
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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:28 pm
(August 25, 2011 at 4:26 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: That does it! I'm going back in time to save jebus from the crucifix....then knife him when I get him out of sight. Then destroy all traces of the body. No martyr, no 2,000 year long problem.

Wouldn't you like to see the other religions that would have filled the void? Lots of blood involved in these.
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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:30 pm
(August 25, 2011 at 4:28 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote:
(August 25, 2011 at 4:26 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: That does it! I'm going back in time to save jebus from the crucifix....then knife him when I get him out of sight. Then destroy all traces of the body. No martyr, no 2,000 year long problem.

Wouldn't you like to see the other religions that would have filled the void? Lots of blood involved in these.

Fuck. I guess if I did remove jebus, we'd have nutters saying "larry died for your sins" instead. Just can't fucking win can ya?!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

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RE: What are your answers?
August 25, 2011 at 4:33 pm
No... worse: you'd have 'We must sacrifice 10 virgins to Esoiqpaenis to ensure rain" -_-
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