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[Brian37]

So seeing a dog statue is enough reason for worship?
Or does it need to be in a temple to be adorable.

Time always cause changes especially after few thousand years.
Do the so called Buddhists follow what Buddha said?
Do the so called Christians follow what Christ said.
Of course not.
Nobody really follow the original message that is why spirituality turned into religion.
I can understand that Buddha or Christ or almost anybody else wouldn't wanted to see their images worship.
They rather wished that people coming later on follow the same spirituality that they were teaching but nothing really go according anyone plane.
It never happen it never will that is why after 3 or so thousand of years most people turn spirituality into a religion of worship with some exceptions.
Your lack of vision need to be sorted out mate.

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I would kick this god in the nuts for all the fucked up crap it allowed.

So you are telling us that God is responsible for everybody suffereing?
And the evidence is.......?

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Atheist (generally speaking) don't say that. We say science is the best method we know of at acquiring truth.

How stupid are these doctors.
Studying years and years for acquiring nothing.

As pocaracas already pointed out, doctors don't prove a person is dead. How do you know the person's memory wasn't created before their "death" or during their resuscitate? You claim it has to be when the person is dead. Where is your evidence thats when the memories were created? Please provide me with that evidence.

That is funny how most people after their NDE avoid eating meat.

A thousand NOT NDE's guys get the same experience from undergoing high G's. How about that the experiences depends on the person's culture & religious beliefs, i.e. Xtians see Christ, Hindu's see Vishnu, etc...

Your kids may like to ply with different toys.
One like this one like that.
Why not let them ply with what they like most?

So you having a statue automatically means you worship it? Do you think gardeners worship gnomes? The Buddha is their end goal, not their god. It reminds them what they should be striving for.

How many Buddhists have you interview to know what they think about Buddha?

Um no, I am not the one making any claim that a god exists. Now unless someone is making up some sort of new god with limited powers, I am addressing a CLAIM, not a reality.

If one is going to claim an all powerful god, it is absurd to try to dodge the claim that it started everything.

I am blasting the concept of the claim, as in "if" as the title of the thread asks. Yes I would kick such a fucker in the nuts. That would be the behavior of a deadbeat, or malevolent being.

Would you hire a baby sitter who behaved like that? Would you trust a cop or security guard with such a spotty selective attitude?

God as commonly claimed is a broken concept, the logic of it is absurd as a CLAIM. The only way anyone can swallow such a crappy claim is to ignore their own selection bias and sample rate error.