Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members

[The Valkyrie]

So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

[Silver]

So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

I've always had a thing for Sauron.

[Anomalocaris]

So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Me.

[I_am_not_mafia]

So let's look at how Huggy argues here. If he can't answer the question then he deliberately derails the conversation by coming up with something irrelevant to argue about so the original point is lost. That is undeniably intellectually dishonest and disingenuous.

Recent examples:

• He says that there are no degrees to morality there is simply right or wrong. I respond with many different contentious issues that people disagree on and he starts changing the subject to discuss each one in depth ignoring the point I made that people do not disagree.
  
• He says that animals cannot reason so cannot be moral. I give an example of animals reasoning and he derails the conversation by drawing an arbitrary distinction between problem solving and reasoning. Then to cap it all starts talking about a Go playing computer program.
  
• In response The Industrial Atheist's example of vampire bats being altruistic by regurgitating blood he avoids acknowledging the point being made by saying that the author is religious.
  
• On being told by me that he cannot get his head around the scientific method so how can we expect to explain AI to him, he quotes an old post of his about a 600 foot rudder to make it look like I was previously wrong on an entirely different thread without mentioning the very next post in that thread where I refuted his example.
  

This is so utterly typical of how you try to debate Huggy. If someone counters what you say, you ignore what was said and derail the conversation to avoid what was said. Not to mention that this entire debate was a derailing of the original thread where I am suggesting praying to Satan for the christians on here. I think you are in dire need of guidance from the god of critical thinking.

You are intellectually dishonest and only concerned about appearing to win. It is lying for Jesus.

[The Grand Nudger]

So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Me.

Initiative -and- ambition.  Good qualities in a Dark Lord.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Well we can't pray to Lord Voldemort or Sauron because we know the authors of books in which they appear.

If praying works because of the placebo effect then it might not work as well if the recipients know that it's a placebo. Not that this completely nullifies the placebo effect but why reduce its efficacy unnecessarily?

We could pray to Grendel's mother. No one knows who wrote Beowulf. But on the other hand, the book doesn't claim to be anything other than a story. What we need is the literary equivalent of "The following events are based on a true story ..."

[Anomalocaris]

Me.

Initiative -and- ambition.  Good qualities in a Dark Lord.

I have psychopathic malevolence and sneering manners too.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Initiative -and- ambition.  Good qualities in a Dark Lord.

I have psychopathic malevolence and sneering manners too.

Do you have any characteristic hand movements you like to do, like tapping your fingers together or stroking a cat?

[Fake Messiah]

So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Pokemon!! Because it seems Pokemon scares them the most.

[Anomalocaris]

I have psychopathic malevolence and sneering manners too.

Do you have any characteristic hand movements you like to do, like tapping your fingers together or stroking a cat?

I am allergic to cats, so they’ve been fed to the piranhas .