Posts: 63
Threads: 3
Joined: May 30, 2013
Reputation:
4
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 3:13 am
(June 4, 2013 at 2:49 am)TheBigOhMan Wrote: (June 3, 2013 at 9:49 pm)ReasonableRuben Wrote: Dammit, why am I even here if I can't recycle all my old garbage arguments and act as if they're something new?!
Can I still use them if I qualify them with "This is recycled garbage, but I'd like to discuss?" That way, I still get to use garbage arguments, you can forgo the now superfluous "GTFO," and you also get to enjoy giving your garbage refutations. Win/win
Hey, cheer up RR, they didn't mention the Argument from Consciousness, nor the Argument from Reason. There is still new garbate to pull out here .
Shut up, man!  They'll add those to the list too! 
"I know what you are thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.'
'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." ~Tweedledum and Tweedledee discussing the finer points of logic
Posts: 13392
Threads: 187
Joined: March 18, 2012
Reputation:
48
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 7:48 am
(June 4, 2013 at 1:25 am)ronedee Wrote: (June 4, 2013 at 12:11 am)Rhythm Wrote: Yuor using them "unkowingly" is precisely the point Drich. It shouldn't be atheists who clue you in on the names of the tired fucking arguments you use.
Due god-damned diligence man!
Whats more common Mario?
An Atheist posing as a Christian? Or, a Christian posing as an Atheist?
I'll wait....
Rhythm is Mario?!?!  hock:
I always though him/her to be the princess!!
Posts: 5336
Threads: 198
Joined: June 24, 2010
Reputation:
77
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 7:55 am
(June 4, 2013 at 1:25 am)ronedee Wrote: Whats more common Mario?
An Atheist posing as a Christian? Or, a Christian posing as an Atheist?
I'll wait....
OK, fine, let's assume for a moment that Hitler really was no True Christian. Let's assume he was just putting on an act for the populace. Hey, it wouldn't be the first time autocratic rulers found it useful to put on a pious facade for the public. What is that old saying...?
"Religion is regarded by fools as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as ...useful." I forget who said it but there it is.
That all accepted, it remains that the people Hitler persecuted (the Jews, the pagan Gypsies, the godless Communists and the gays) were all persecuted for 2000 years by Christianity. Hitler didn't just invent the persecution of the Jews out of whole cloth. He built on the foundation of anti-semitisim that festered all over Europe since Christianity became the dominant faith. Even if Hitler wasn't himself a True Christian, his holocaust was the culmination of what Christianity created and made possible.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
Posts: 935
Threads: 16
Joined: July 3, 2011
Reputation:
5
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2013 at 8:02 am by ideologue08.)
I don't really understand the point of this thread. Forum posts and threads by their very nature are very repetitive, you kind of had to think of that before joining them? And plus, it's perfectly possible for someone to argue from largely the same framework but from a different angle. I don't see this as anything other than an attempt to ward off Christians from the forum and I hope they don't buy into that.
Posts: 2281
Threads: 16
Joined: January 17, 2010
Reputation:
69
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:10 am
(June 3, 2013 at 7:39 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Rule of Thumb: If WL Craig, Strobel, McDowell, Habermas, Comfort or Answers in Genesis have used the argument you're about to post, we've heard it already. ...but...
...what do I do with all the atheist dogma I have memorised?
Sum ergo sum
Posts: 12586
Threads: 397
Joined: September 17, 2010
Reputation:
96
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:20 am
(June 4, 2013 at 8:00 am)ideologue08 Wrote: I don't really understand the point of this thread. Forum posts and threads by their very nature are very repetitive, you kind of had to think of that before joining them? And plus, it's perfectly possible for someone to argue from largely the same framework but from a different angle. I don't see this as anything other than an attempt to ward off Christians from the forum and I hope they don't buy into that.
Usually, they don't. Most of them don't even try to. As most of these arguments have been around for hundreds of years, you'd think people would assume that MAYBE we'd encountered them before, and rarely do we come across anyone who's got a different or interesting perspective.
The only reason the repetitiveness of arguments in SKEPTIC circles is somewhat refreshing is that science gives us new ways to approach things, and thus new pseudoscience for them to cling to. Religion doesn't afford anything new.
Posts: 13051
Threads: 66
Joined: February 7, 2011
Reputation:
92
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:49 am
(June 4, 2013 at 1:34 am)Rhythm Wrote: Catholicism deserves better representation on these boards...I swear to christ....
No. No, it doesn't.
(June 4, 2013 at 2:44 am)fr0d0 Wrote: None have ever been successfully debunked silly. Unless that is you like to bury your head in the sand.
None of them? I can understand you wanting to cling to some of these arguments, but do you seriously think the likes of Pacal's Wager and "why would the disciples die for a lie" bullshit haven't been refuted?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Posts: 12586
Threads: 397
Joined: September 17, 2010
Reputation:
96
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:54 am
(June 4, 2013 at 8:49 am)Faith No More Wrote: (June 4, 2013 at 2:44 am)fr0d0 Wrote: None have ever been successfully debunked silly. Unless that is you like to bury your head in the sand.
None of them? I can understand you wanting to cling to some of these arguments, but do you seriously think the likes of Pacal's Wager and "why would the disciples die for a lie" bullshit haven't been refuted?
"Pot? Have you met kettle?"
Posts: 66329
Threads: 140
Joined: June 28, 2011
Reputation:
160
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:57 am
(June 4, 2013 at 7:48 am)Drich Wrote: I always though him/her to be the princess!! I can be whatever you need me to be lover.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Posts: 5336
Threads: 198
Joined: June 24, 2010
Reputation:
77
RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
June 4, 2013 at 8:59 am
(June 3, 2013 at 9:10 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: Can you guys provide links to specific examples of these arguments being debunked? I'm new to all of these..
I'd like to make this a project. I'm asking for a subforum where each thread could be made strictly about each argument. That way, when a new Christian comes by, we could just link to the thread and they could feel free to try to breathe life into the failed-but-still-endlessly-recycled argument.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
|
![[Image: Untitled2_zpswaosccbr.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1140.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fn569%2Fthesummerqueen%2FUntitled2_zpswaosccbr.png)
