RE: Is the catholic church a force for good?
March 18, 2013 at 12:34 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2013 at 12:40 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 18, 2013 at 12:03 am)Lion IRC Wrote: Only the biblical theist can act in the belief of a ''bigger picture'' and so I think this answers the Hitchens wager because the atheist (who equally doesnt want to die) cant match that.
What on earth makes you think this? Perhaps you only meant that the atheist and the theist are looking at different "bigger pictures". Not that the picture seems to have any effect of a persons ability to sacrifice. There are atheists in foxholes after all...
Go to Arlington, find an MOH headstone without a cross or a star of david on it. There you are. Some poor motherfucker sacrificed his godless life, most likely so that someone could one day claim that theists can sacrifice their lives in a way that atheists "just can't match".
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