Genocide in the Old Testament

[Bad Writer]

Our bloody, bigoted past makes me shudder. The future also worries me because those motherfuckers breed like rabbits.

[Lemonvariable72]

Our bloody, bigoted past makes me shudder. The future also worries me because those motherfuckers breed like rabbits.

Yes, but for now we are turning the corner, and where I live bigots are often laughed at and shunned.

[Esquilax]

The bible says God did it. That statement is not altered or peer reviewed or subject to popular opinion. Science has the luxury of getting stuff wrong and changing the "facts" as it goes. (The "beauty of science" - we get to stuff up and rewrite a new tentative hypothesis and still pretend it is somehow a hallmark of high IQ)

Interesting how proud you are that your holy book has never changed its position, but you feel no need to, say, show that this position is the correct one. Something that science strives to do; that's why it changes. It's called learning, genius. It's nothing to be ashamed of, except perhaps if you just want to wallow in ignorance like you seem to.

Congratulations, asshole: you're exactly as wrong today as you will be the day you die, and you'll never advance a step further toward being correct. You must be very proud.

[Lion IRC]

It was a filthy, godless homo fag who created the basis for the computer that he uses to exercise his single brain cell on the internet. Because irony is funny.

I was just thinking this, but in less-colorful language. No less true.

Look everybody. A text book case of clear thinking. Computers invented by atheist - therefore atheism is good.

Hands up everyone who would convert to Islam if a Muslim had invented it?

What? ...speak up! It can't hear you.
"...logical fallacy... " you say?

[Captain Colostomy]

I was just thinking this, but in less-colorful language. No less true.

Look everybody. A text book case of clear thinking. Computers invented by atheist - therefore atheism is good.

Hands up everyone who would convert to Islam if a Muslim had invented it?

What? ...speak up! It can't hear you.
"...logical fallacy... " you say?

Weren't you the numbnuts playing 'look what theists did' earlier?

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All the really useful science and technology was invented/discovered by theists.
The wheel.
The inclined plane.
Writing.
Making fire.

What have we got since the 20th century?
Hiroshima? Chernobyl? Asbestos?. Thalidomide? Cane Toads? Global Warming? An Internet chock full of gambling, music piracy, child pornography, lol cat memes? Wikipedia?
Atheists rule the Internet? Yeah. They probably do.

Yup, it was you. This looks like a cherry picked list of 'theist inventions-good, athiest inventions bad'. Now you cry athiests are cherry picking to support their argument? GTFO.

[Esquilax]

C'mon, Captain, what more do you expect from an anti-science dipshit like this one? He can't even keep his story straight on whether science is a good thing or a bad one, why should any of us hope for an internally consistent position here?

[max-greece]

Remember, you do not have to partake in the benefits science or technology has provided from the past statement of "one day we will discover the answer".

If you really want to be a true Christian, go live in a cave without any benefits that science has provided.

All the really useful science and technology was invented/discovered by theists.
The wheel.
The inclined plane.
Writing.
Making fire.

What have we got since the 20th century?
Hiroshima? Chernobyl? Asbestos?. Thalidomide? Cane Toads? Global Warming? An Internet chock full of gambling, music piracy, child pornography, lol cat memes? Wikipedia?
Atheists rule the Internet? Yeah. They probably do.

Do you have any proof for any of your claims that theists invented any of those things?

Is it really irrelevant that none of those theists were Christians?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

It's probably likely someone with religious beliefs invented the sword, and cross bow, the long bow, pouring oil onto people trying to storm a rampart, crushing people's heads with rocks as they try to climb up a ladder to storm the parapets.

However, I judge going down the route of using an argument utilising an assoication fallacy as its core premise as very idiotic.

[Captain Colostomy]

Do you have any proof for any of your claims that theists invented any of those things?

How would he know? 'Facts' are houses of cards on shifting sand to him.

Is it really irrelevant that none of those theists were Christians?

When your current score is a big fat zero, you accept changes to your lineup. Substituting Yahweh for a Baal or Set may break the no hitter.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Next time you wanna plead that whole..."one day we will discover the answer" cop-out, just substitute the words...God works in mysterious ways.

That doesn't make any sense.

'Science' finds gaps every day in its knowledge. That's the point of research, and of learning things. You try to bridge the gap, and if you find more gaps after doing it, then so be it. That's the very basic nature of human learning and understanding.

I don't understand what you're saying. Are you inferring that you don't like learning ? :S Surely that can't be true.