(January 7, 2012 at 10:00 pm)organiccornflake Wrote: That is really mean, for no reason. Why do you feel the need to be so insulting? Thats a common factor I tend to see in athiesm...
Regardless; how about you respond to my rebuttal, instead of just attacking me? It makes me sad how atheists seem to be so interested in a logical, sensible discussion until it is time to actual have one.
We've seen far more theists come through here to simply preach and/or insult us.
Minimalist, the forum's lovable rascal, just takes a "I'm tired of your shit" approach to all conversations, which usually results in his particular responses.
Of course, what you don't realize is that his response, however rude, is completely appropriate. We athiests enjoy being ensorcelled in knowledge. Your response, while entertaining, is woefully undersourced.
That is to say, you said things and we're not taking your word for it.
Grace us with evidence or sources (that aren't obviously biased - but actual peer-reviewed scientific articles) backing up your claim or really anything that we can use to have an acutal discussion.
Chipan up there claimed that Jesus was a person with outside-of-bible proof of his existence (I didn't forget - I've just been busy, Chip, I'll respond to it either tomorrow or early this week so I can get back on track) with a 4 part video on the matter.
That's something at least and it's a good start to further discussion.
Chip -
I've been off-and-on AWOL, but last I checked, one of my previous responses about the 'scientific truths' about the bible that you're currently bringing up has not only been debunked by one of my previous posts, but others as well.
The bible is either so open to interpretation or you're just flat-out wrong. The language of the bible doesn't describe an ellipsoidal earth orbiting a burning ball of hydrogen at all. It describes an island inside of a bubble that's beneath water with hell beneath that land as I pointed out in a previous post.
Should I just repost that point again or have you some counterpoints to the points I made?
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
