RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
October 18, 2013 at 12:24 pm
(October 18, 2013 at 12:21 pm)DLJ Wrote:(October 18, 2013 at 11:55 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: Well it's not an organised religion certainly but it depends how you want to define a religion. Not all religions are based around God you know. Does this seem like a religious text to you?
http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.1.i.html
The guy who wrote that would be defined as an atheist by today's standards but he saw it as a religion.
I see it as a poem.
(October 18, 2013 at 11:55 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you want to oppose something don't you need something of your own to oppose it with in the first place? For example to oppose Communism you must have a political belief that is not Communism.
Exactly.
The opposite of Communism is not Communism (it isn't Capitalism)
The opposite of guilty is not guilty (it isn't 'innocent')
The opposite of theism is not theism i.e. atheism (it isn't another religion)
With respect they are false dichotomies. One can have the position that a person is not guilty by simply not agreeing that they are, not necessarily saying that they are not guilty.
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