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Richard Dawkins says "What if you're wrong?"
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RE: Richard Dawkins says "What if you're wrong?"
(June 8, 2010 at 12:42 pm)Meatball Wrote:
(June 4, 2010 at 9:48 pm)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote: You could go far in emphasizing how a mass murderer would go to heaven over an atheist simply for believing in Jesus Christ. Does that make sense?

I'd just like to point out that this would have no bearing either way on the truth of the religion. Just because Christianity has rules you don't agree with doesn't make it false.
Most god concepts don't stop with a statement on the existence of their god but additionally assert that their god is good and therefore should be worshipped. In most cases this is an integral part of the claim.

Firstoff one can observe that such an addition technically is a non-sequitur for it is a normative statement not a logical necessity to worship good entities.

Secondly, being right on existence can coexist with being wrong on the moral clause. Consistency of moral statements can be evaluated independently from the existence clause. This is why it is easier to reject most theisms on basis of the morals they present.

Traditional christianity purports that god exists, is benevolent and that the bible is the word of god. We cannot exclude the possibility that the entity exists, but we must on basis of a logical evaluation necessarily conclude that the other parts of the claims are inconsistent since god ordering genocide in the OT on the one hand and a message of love in the NT do not add up.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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RE: Richard Dawkins says "What if you're wrong?" - by Purple Rabbit - June 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm

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