(December 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: If you cannot read or comprehend that’s not my problem. Once again you just chuck around pointless statements or are you punching your keyboard randomly?Given comments like this, I have good reason to believe that "punching my keyboard randomly" would at least give you an intellectual equal in this waste of time. As it stands, your inability to actually defend your own points seems to have a notable taste of intellectual inequality between you and the rest of us. Either you are able to actually come here and make discuss a point or you are not.
What you have done is insult all us in lieu of discussion. I've seen this in debates before - it usually comes from indefensible points with a deluded mind lashing out due to its inability to understand why the foundation of his or her beliefs is crumbling. It's like watching a computer freeze up and the program its running get thrown into an eternal loop.
(December 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: I have no religion and have outlined no accounts, all wishful thinking on your part.So you're an non-theist attacking atheists on their basis of atheism because we have no religious alternative? You're certainly doing your best (however pathetic that is) in arguing like a religious asshole.
(December 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: Great, I don’t care what theists do. I accept the possibility in absence of any evidence for or against a god. You dismiss without having any idea of what a valid alternative could be. Therefore you dismiss something with no idea of what you’re dismissing or what you’re even looking for.That's a mighty big presumption.
(December 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: So you have no objections against the concept of god? Or is theism interchangeable with god?The god of the religions of this earth is not simply idiotic but also impossible. The atheists here and elsewhere tend to argue against the god of the bible or other Earthly religions. Most atheists, including myself, don't disbelieve in beings with the kind of powers that a god or gods could possess. One of Zeus' powers was his power over lightning and, more or less, humanity has already done that and more.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
