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Genocide in the Old Testament
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#361
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:52 pm
They might not want him. Too primitive for their tastes.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:53 pm
It depends on whether they still sacrifice pigeons to cure leprosy.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 12:55 pm
On a side but related note to the last few posts, I saw somewhere a description of some encounters between a missionary and some tribe. Basically, when he told them about Jesus they asked if he had ever actually met Jesus. When he said no, they just wrote the whole thing off.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:03 pm
One of my favorite cartoons.


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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 1:17 pm (This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 1:18 pm by Cyberman.)
The only thing against our friend going to live with a 'primitive' tribe - apart from the risk of him contaminating their culture with a fossilised mindset - is that he'd still have to rely on science for everything. Whether it's trying to retrace his steps to find something he lost (common sense excepted), working out how to get a coconut down from a tree or even throwing ingredients together to cook a meal - anything other than spend his life on his knees and praying for his god to do this stuff - he's doing science.
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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#366
RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 3:05 pm
(September 26, 2013 at 12:15 pm)Ryantology Wrote:
(September 26, 2013 at 8:08 am)Lion IRC Wrote: . Your whole...atheists invent useful stuff, is a total fallacy isn't it?
Don't like cherry picking? Tell ATHEISTS to stop doing it.
Look at the folk suggesting that there is some contradiction between being a Christian and using a computer - Brian should be ashamed of that sort of logic fail.
Do atheists refuse to fly because the Wright brothers were theists? WOT a joke!!!!!

You're the one who started this, so you have no right to fling your hands like a distressed bitch when smarter people turn it around on you.

This, in a nutshell, was my point, Lyin' IRC, assuming you're still paying attention.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 3:18 pm (This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 3:19 pm by Bad Writer.)
(September 26, 2013 at 3:05 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote:
(September 26, 2013 at 12:15 pm)Ryantology Wrote: You're the one who started this, so you have no right to fling your hands like a distressed bitch when smarter people turn it around on you.

This, in a nutshell, was my point, Lyin' IRC, assuming you're still paying attention.

He's in a Frito coma for the next 7 hours, then he'll wake up for a few hours of GTA V, after which he'll stumble his way back to his PC to finally see what a mess his words really are.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 4:02 pm
(September 26, 2013 at 3:18 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote:
(September 26, 2013 at 3:05 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: This, in a nutshell, was my point, Lyin' IRC, assuming you're still paying attention.

He's in a Frito coma for the next 7 hours, then he'll wake up for a few hours of GTA V, after which he'll stumble his way back to his PC to finally see what a mess his words really are.

Care to put money where your mouth is? I'll lay 10:1 odds he doesn't 'see it' thataway.
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 4:04 pm
(September 26, 2013 at 4:02 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote:
(September 26, 2013 at 3:18 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: He's in a Frito coma for the next 7 hours, then he'll wake up for a few hours of GTA V, after which he'll stumble his way back to his PC to finally see what a mess his words really are.

Care to put money where your mouth is? I'll lay 10:1 odds he doesn't 'see it' thataway.

I'd be apt to make a wager against my own conceivably flawed scenario there. And yet I can't help but picture this very situation in my mind...
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RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 26, 2013 at 4:53 pm
I'll lay 10:1 that he comes back and says something stupid and hypocritical.
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