(May 21, 2018 at 10:17 pm)sdelsolray Wrote:(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: God is the true reality.
I am very intellectually honest.
Willful ignorance is a quote from the Bible. It is the atheist has willful ignorance.
I am 39 and set in my ways as a follower of God.
I hope for your good fortune as well.
(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: God is the true reality.Just not in any way you can demonstrate. I realize you believe this claim (unless you are a POE, which is a slight possibility). However, your mere belief does not necessarily comport with reality. You mere belief is not evidence of your claim.
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(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: ...The evidence in this thread demonstrates otherwise, quite convincingly. As an aside, you may wish to research the Dunning-Kruger effect. You seem immersed in it.
I am very intellectually honest.
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(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: ...My search of the Bible reveals the term "willful ignorance" does not appear in the seven different versions I searched. Perhaps you would be so kind as to provide actual empirical evidence of your claim. You know how to do this (but perhaps you do not). Please provide the chapter verse and translation/version of the Bible in which the term "willful ignorance" appears.
Willful ignorance is a quote from the Bible.
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I strongly suspect this is an example of a factual inaccuracy you have presented. Show me that I am wrong.
(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: ...Most atheists I know are quite learned in the Bible and related Jewish and Christian religious dogma and apologetics. They are anything but willfully ignorant, at least about those topics. The fundamental difference, of course, between atheists and theists is that the atheists do not believe what the theists believe. It's a matter of belief, or lack thereof, and has nothing to do with ignorance, willful or otherwise.
It is the atheist [that] [sic] has willful ignorance.
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(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: ...Well then, because I use Bayesian probability analysis, I must now change my earlier tentative conclusions because of this new information you have provided. I therefore modify my conclusion #4 from above as follows:
I am 39 and set in my ways as a follower of God.
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From:
"4) Poster CDF47 is quite young and may have time to heal from the psychological, emotional and intellectual harm he has experienced."
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4) Poster CDF is approaching middle age. The effect of his prior indoctrination is so severe that the likelihood of him recovering from the psychological, emotional and intellectual harm he has experienced is quite remote.
Do you feel better now?
(May 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)CDF47 Wrote: I hope for your good fortune as well.Thank you.
2 Peter 3:5, "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:"