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No more religious debate
Napoléon Offline
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#21
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 10:06 am
(November 29, 2012 at 11:14 pm)Polaris Wrote: There is no definitive correlation between logical thinking and atheism.

If logical thinking doesn't lead you to atheism you're doing it wrong.
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#22
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 10:35 am
Polaris Wrote:I don't believe in vampires, but I am not going to go around wasting my time trying to disprove their existence.

You might feel differently if everyone around you was trying to run the country you live in based upon what they believe to be Dracula's will.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#23
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 4:42 pm
(November 30, 2012 at 10:06 am)Napoléon Wrote:
(November 29, 2012 at 11:14 pm)Polaris Wrote: There is no definitive correlation between logical thinking and atheism.

If logical thinking doesn't lead you to atheism you're doing it wrong.

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#24
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 4:47 pm (This post was last modified: November 30, 2012 at 4:47 pm by Napoléon.)
Even as a Deist you have to admit that at some point you're taking the idea of god on a leap of faith? No?
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#25
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 4:53 pm



I've never understood Deism. It's like, "Not having your cake, and not eating it, too."
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#26
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 5:03 pm
(November 30, 2012 at 4:47 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Even as a Deist you have to admit that at some point you're taking the idea of god on a leap of faith? No?

To my mind, the idea of god cannot be anything other than a leap of faith. Unless, of course, god decides to put in a personal appearance and we're somehow able to verify that it is indeed god. It may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato, which has warped our minds.
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#27
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I can respect deism on two counts.

1: They put God into only one gap, and it is a gap into which only blind speculation will exist for the foreseeable future. Deism is Creationism which makes no active effort to contradict science.
2: They do not attempt to invent 'God's will' or enforce any kind of social or behavioral code based on this invention.

I don't agree with deism, but it's as inoffensive as theism can possibly be.
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#28
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 8:17 pm
"No, we're sorry. The fact is as an idiot jesus freak it is about all you are capable of doing.

Trotting out absurd bible bullshit means nothing, pal."

Lol, Why does the name Jesus evokes so much frustration amongst atheist. Oh, I got a revelation maybe it's fear!!!
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RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 8:27 pm
(November 30, 2012 at 8:17 pm)The truth Wrote: "No, we're sorry. The fact is as an idiot jesus freak it is about all you are capable of doing.

Trotting out absurd bible bullshit means nothing, pal."

Lol, Why does the name Jesus evokes so much frustration amongst atheist. Oh, I got a revelation maybe it's fear!!!

or maybe not.
Better get that source of revelation checked out!
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#30
RE: No more religious debate
November 30, 2012 at 8:28 pm
(November 30, 2012 at 8:17 pm)The truth Wrote: "No, we're sorry. The fact is as an idiot jesus freak it is about all you are capable of doing.

Trotting out absurd bible bullshit means nothing, pal."

Lol, Why does the name Jesus evokes so much frustration amongst atheist. Oh, I got a revelation maybe it's fear!!!

It is not the name of Jesus himself, it is the stupidity of those uttering it.
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