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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 10:44 am
(February 23, 2018 at 8:43 am)chimp3 Wrote: Does the OP assume atheists are struggling to accept the "Christian Narrative" but are waiting for that last intellectual stumbling block to be removed? Seems that many Christians are so full of themselves they can not figure out why others do not want to be like them. "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam!" I find a thousand other things more interesting and purpose filled than religious bullshit!
They're just enhancing this ones programming. Think of it as a fire wall.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 10:45 am
Plot holes.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 10:59 am
As with ShellB above, a general lack of self-consistency is the main issue.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:27 pm
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(February 23, 2018 at 8:32 am)Cyberman Wrote: Addendum:
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Except that atheists are responsible for the most atrocities, thereby making belief that a God does not exist absurd...
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:37 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 12:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Except that atheists are responsible for the most atrocities, thereby making belief that a God does not exist absurd...
That's not even quantifiable, for one. For two, I believe you're thinking of Hitler, and he identified as Christian. It also doesn't then follow that disbelief in god is absurd, even if it were true that atheists committed more atrocities than religious people. There are many other factors. You could look at whether they have less rich social lives because they're not in church all the time. Maybe they're more likely to be shunned by their religious families, so they are dealing with that. Maybe just the act of not believing in god makes them less likely to worry about consequences (all of which I think is ridiculous). That doesn't mean god is real.
For what it's worth, I don't think religious people or atheists are any more or less monstrous, though I can say for sure that organized groups of religious people slaughtering those who feel differently is definitely more common than organized groups of atheists doing anything other than go to Comic Con together.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:37 pm
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(February 23, 2018 at 12:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (February 23, 2018 at 8:32 am)Cyberman Wrote: Addendum:
Except that atheists are responsible for the most atrocities, thereby making belief that a God does not exist absurd...
Except that atheism is not the belief that gods don't exist. You know this. You've been told it every time you bring it up.
Despite the emoticon, I can only conclude at this point that you are incapable of thinking.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:45 pm
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(February 23, 2018 at 12:27 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (February 23, 2018 at 8:32 am)Cyberman Wrote: Addendum:
Except that atheists are responsible for the most atrocities, thereby making belief that a God does not exist absurd...
Really, did you know theists, particularly the kind to which you claim affinity, when their powers are unbridled and fortified by greed to lick the imaginary ass of your fictional god, killed 1 in 5 of every human beings on this entire earth in less 100 years? Not all the atrocities on all of the earth in all of the bloody twentieth century, including all of those in which atheists were not even minimally and tangentially involved, combined, matched half of that score?
You are just full of any shit that seem to make the anus of your Jesus smell less foul, aren’t you?
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for all the replies so far! I'm going to let this thread go for another day or so, and then pick one to respond to for my project. Much appreciated.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:52 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 12:37 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Despite the emoticon, I can only conclude at this point that you are incapable of thinking.
Great. I look forward to that thread two years from now in which Huggy posts something that resembles a legitimate thought and dredges up your post so he can write 'nyah-nyah . . . see? I can think!' before the inevitable 20-page derail of whatever-the-fuck the thread is actually about.
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RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 12:53 pm
We live in hope that he, like everyone, can grow.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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