(December 7, 2011 at 9:13 pm)JoopWoop Wrote: Prove me wrong sweetheart.
The rest of your post was babbling drivel so I just deleted it.
Ahh, if only someone could remove you from the planet, all of life would be the sweeter. It's okay, darling, you don't have to talk about the grown up things.
Your erroneous presumption is that we dismiss the possibilities of theism because, and I'll quote you for this,
Someone Operating With One Can Short of a Six Pack Wrote:Therefore you dismiss something with no idea of what you’re dismissing or what you’re even looking for.
Theistic claims are claims with no evidence. There is no evidence on Earth supporting the claims made by the major religions of christianity, islam, judaism, or most other religions. We dismiss those claims based on that reason, therefore, we have an idea of what we're dismissing.
Your claim that we don't know what we're looking for is simply wrong. We're looking for what most people look for: the truth - whatever that is.
We simply dismiss the stupid delusions that theists claim.
If I'm not mistaken, this has been repeated to you ad nausium but you continue to set up your pathetic strawman arguement against us and insult us for not falling for it. We dont' appreciate being told what we believe considering that your conlusion, hypothosis, and everything in between is flawed for this reason.
Therefore, that is a mighty big presumption, on your part.
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
