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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 9:43 am
(June 2, 2015 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: (June 2, 2015 at 7:02 am)robvalue Wrote: Could you change the colour please? I can barely read the yellow 
Hey Rob,
I don't know how that happened since I did nothing to alter the color. Is anyone else having this problem? Let me know what I can do and I will do it.
It's OK now, it seems Panda did a little edit on it
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 9:46 am
9. They frequently presume that atheists consider the works of various scientists, philosophers, and prominent atheists to be authoritative in the same way that Christians consider the Bible to authoritative.
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 10:04 am
(June 2, 2015 at 9:43 am)robvalue Wrote: (June 2, 2015 at 9:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: Hey Rob,
I don't know how that happened since I did nothing to alter the color. Is anyone else having this problem? Let me know what I can do and I will do it.
It's OK now, it seems Panda did a little edit on it
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As above, I edited it to remove the yellow colour ^_^
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 10:15 am
Ignoring scriptures they don't want to be inconvenienced by is a biggie.
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 10:18 am
(June 2, 2015 at 6:45 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:
- 3. They are ambulance chasers, looking for weaknesses and addictions to which they claim that god has the answer.
That one really ticks me off. They pounce on the weak and on people who have fallen on bad times and take full advantage. A person in need is often very malleable and they know it. Missionaries are the worst example of this.
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 11:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 11:02 am by Nope.)
(June 2, 2015 at 6:45 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:
- When we point to something in the Bible that is obviously incorrect or of questionable morality, they play the bad hermeneutics card.
Edited by Pandæmonium - Sorry, don't ever normally edit the format of a member's post but that font colour was just not going to fly.
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11 They also claim that odious things in the Old Testament were done away with by the New Testament even as they continue to use the OT to prove some of their beliefs.
12 They don't have a problem with crediting their god for finding them a parking space while a child in another country starves
13 They believe that their feelings are proof of god's existence.
(June 2, 2015 at 10:18 am)AFTT47 Wrote: (June 2, 2015 at 6:45 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:
- 3. They are ambulance chasers, looking for weaknesses and addictions to which they claim that god has the answer.
That one really ticks me off. They pounce on the weak and on people who have fallen on bad times and take full advantage. A person in need is often very malleable and they know it. Missionaries are the worst example of this.
Anyone who helps another person out of the goodness of their heart and expects nothing in return has got my respect and admiration. Doing it for an opportunity to advance an agenda is contemptible. It's like a boss giving a raise to an underling because it will make it more difficult for her to reject sexual advances. It's a particularly dirty tactic.
It ticks me off also.
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 11:38 am
Even 'big ticket' edicts and strictures straight from Jesus' mouth, like not remarrying following divorce, can be totally ignored by current day Christians and they don't feel one particle of apprehension about it, apparently, because despite claiming to be so fully and completely filled with belief in the Jesus, nevertheless on this matter, THEY know better than Christ does.
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 12:53 pm
General inconsistency; taking some parts of the bible literally, some metaphorically, reinterpreting some, and ignoring others. And it's not just churches that do this but individuals so you end up with a million different interpretations of the bible, all uniquely tailored to the individual. And what's worse is that that seems to be encouraged as a way of creating a 'personal relationship with god'.
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 1:05 pm
10. They claim that they are "persecuted", when in fact they are the ones persecuting us (at least in America).
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RE: Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play
June 2, 2015 at 1:17 pm
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