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RE: Apologetics
September 30, 2013 at 11:42 am
Welcome, Psycho, and thank you for your love!! <3
And yes, apologetics comes in whatever flavor supports a person's own view.
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RE: Apologetics
September 30, 2013 at 11:43 am
I don't blame the apologists for trying. They've been dealt a bad hand and try to make sense of it as best they can. Frequently, the results are very amusing for us.
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RE: Apologetics
September 30, 2013 at 11:46 am
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Hello fellow naut.
As both the above say, apologetics pretty much mould to the views of the person, with sometimes bizzare results.
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RE: Apologetics
September 30, 2013 at 11:51 am
Welcome!
Are you the same Psychonaut from the former Faithless.org forum?
And a video on this subject of apologetics and why they fail from the get-go:
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
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RE: Apologetics
September 30, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Thanks for the welcome guys!
Bizarre indeed! One person argues for this, the other person argues for that. No one actually knows what they're talking about, and it seems to me that they all just want converts to verify their own personal views. Hence the enormous amount of schism and religious denominations in general. The problem is I tend to get too involved in the arguments. I personally have no static beliefs. I think there might be something, But It seems unlikely to be the abrahamic god. The descriptions of it are always so violent, and contradictory.
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RE: Apologetics
September 30, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Well when you're arguing for the existence of a magic sky daddy, and arguing the truth of a book full of stories of magical happenings, it's hard to justify them without using magic as an explanation.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Apologetics
October 1, 2013 at 10:57 am
As I think doubting Thomas has in his SIG. Apologetics is the art of rolling a turd in sugar and selling it as a donut
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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