RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
October 18, 2017 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2017 at 8:37 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Whateverist Wrote: For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.
Noooooooooooooooo I don't think we should close discussion off for ANYONE.
Theists can say what they want. But I think we should stop wasting our time debating with utter nonsense that is obviously wrong when they're just obviously going to convince themselves they're right anyway.
Like when you have Jor (as fucking awesome as she is) doing multiple paragraphs explaining to Little Rik exactly why he's wrong in great detail... and he responds with "Wrong again Jor!" and a bunch of rabbit smilies.... that's merely the extreme example of what a fucking waste of time it is to debate with theists. Even the most respectable theistic debaters are still at the end of the day apologizing for an imaginary friend.
We should... laugh at them. And change the subject. And talk about something other than a fucking imaginary friend in the sky.
We should stop humoring them. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and pretending like there's any REALISTIC chance that their God exists.
The fact SOME concepts of God are POSSIBLE IN PRINCIPLE... does NOT mean that that possibility is even REMOTELY REALISTIC. Even the least absurd concept of God is still 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% likely to be nonexistent. So let's stop humoring these people who are the intellectual equivalent of an adult who still believes in Santa Claus.
(October 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Whateverist Wrote: For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.
(July 4, 2014 at 1:48 am)Purplundy Wrote: No, you're making just enough out of this, and that is an important question that I need to answer.
I know that a Jesus figure did exist and certain people wrote about him.
Did he rise from the dead? I don't know, he hasn't proven that he did, to me anyways.
Worst case scenario: He didn't. His body decomposed and is humus on its way to the planet's core. That would be disappointing; he seemed like such a nice guy. But it has no effect on my life; the Christian practice of loving your neighbor is not affected by whether or not a Jew walked outside of a cave on Sunday morning. That doesn't even mean that what he taught was false; I'd still agree that we need to help the poor for reasons other than, "Jesus said so." To think otherwise would be an appeal to hypocrisy.
When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book.
I just read what you quoted. The fact that this is amongst the BEST that theists can come up with is HILARIOUS and is a perfect demonstration of what a waste of time it is debating with them over God.
The most respectful thing a theist has said then.... amounts to "Nuh uh because even if Jesus didn't have magic powers he still may have been a nice dude!".