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Can atheists convert theists?

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Can atheists convert theists?
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RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I think slippery is more accurate. His god is very slippery and loosely defined.
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#112
RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Well if his God is everything then it can be anything it wants as it already is everything... can't get more chameleon than that.

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#113
RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 5:00 pm
I don't care. Spain just won the world cup.
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RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:22 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2010 at 7:25 pm by fr0d0.)
Yay for Spain Big Grin

[Image: 090822auguri1.gif][Image: Spain.gif]

His god isn't loosely defined, it's all encompassing... different thing.
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#115
RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:24 pm
God is everything is as meaningless as God is nothing. The only meaningful part is the "all is consciousness".

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RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:27 pm (This post was last modified: July 11, 2010 at 7:27 pm by fr0d0.)
If it were meaningless it wouldn't say anything, but it does. The summation of everything that exists contains the entirety of the source. If that source were carbon, then everything is made of carbon, for example.
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#117
RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:31 pm
If I say all lumps of coal=God... that means no more than saying no lumps of coal are God. It's just labelling things.

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#118
RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Fr0d0 & EvF -

Why don't we take this discussion to the other thread.
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RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:34 pm
(July 11, 2010 at 7:31 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: If I say all lumps of coal=God... that means no more than saying no lumps of coal are God. It's just labelling things.
If he said one thing of many = God I would agree with you. But he clearly didn't, hence your error.
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RE: Can atheists convert theists?
July 11, 2010 at 7:36 pm
The analogy is the same.

"What is X?"

"Everything is X"

No more meaningful than:

"What is X?"

"Nothing is X".

Replace X with God or whatever you want. It's completely meaningless because you still don't know what X is yet.

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