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Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:17 pm
(October 1, 2013 at 7:12 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: The bird blood cure for leprosy is kinda a hoot too.

Wait . . . it's not true?!? All that money pissed away!
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:21 pm
(October 1, 2013 at 7:10 pm)Beta Ray Bill Wrote:
(October 1, 2013 at 7:01 pm)Airyaman Wrote: Maybe he was back in the day. You have no idea what was funny in biblical times...

Well, I think the biblical rules about menstruation were hilarious. Or was that just simple-minded? I forget.

Leviticus 15:19-30
Don't forget the rule for sacrifice: the priest puts the blood on his right ear lobe, right thumb and right big toe. (Ex 29:20 & Lev. 8:23)

Cracks me up every time.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:22 pm
(October 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: I will start that proof staring tomorrow.

I can't wait Undecided

I am going to put on my prophet hat and make the prediction that you will use the following arguments:

Cosmological argument
Teleological argument
Presupositionalism (a real popular one these days)
Ontological argument (possibly the modal version)
The Moral argument

Even though they are all fallacious, you will continue to believe they are strong arguments.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:32 pm
(October 1, 2013 at 7:22 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:
(October 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: I will start that proof staring tomorrow.

I can't wait Undecided

I am going to put on my prophet hat and make the prediction that you will use the following arguments:

Cosmological argument
Teleological argument
Presupositionalism (a real popular one these days)
Ontological argument (possibly the modal version)
The Moral argument

Tomorrow I will be using just the first of several arguments.

Even though they are all fallacious, you will continue to believe they are strong arguments.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:34 pm
I agree, it was worth repeating.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:54 pm (This post was last modified: October 1, 2013 at 7:54 pm by Cyberman.)
(October 1, 2013 at 7:01 pm)Airyaman Wrote:
(October 1, 2013 at 6:33 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: If God is not funny, but people are funny, then people could not have made up God, else they would have made Him funny.

Maybe he was back in the day. You have no idea what was funny in biblical times...

Yeah, I think it's one of those instances where you had to be there. The sermon on the mount, for instance, was probably Jesus doing a twenty-minute standup routine, but it didn't come across on the page.

The reviews were pretty lousy, as well. Probably why they closed the same night.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 7:55 pm
(October 1, 2013 at 7:32 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: Tomorrow I will be using just the first of several arguments.

I'm as giddy as a school girl! (tents fingers...)
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 8:05 pm
wtf r u talking about i make all kinds of gains. whats ur routine? im on standard p/p/l routine, brah
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 8:23 pm
(October 1, 2013 at 7:54 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(October 1, 2013 at 7:01 pm)Airyaman Wrote: Maybe he was back in the day. You have no idea what was funny in biblical times...

Yeah, I think it's one of those instances where you had to be there. The sermon on the mount, for instance, was probably Jesus doing a twenty-minute standup routine, but it didn't come across on the page.

The reviews were pretty lousy, as well. Probably why they closed the same night.

And they wonder why he bombed at the Catskills.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 1, 2013 at 9:53 pm (This post was last modified: October 1, 2013 at 10:34 pm by Lion IRC.)
(October 1, 2013 at 7:12 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: The bird blood cure for leprosy is kinda a hoot too.

9 people applauded this post with kudos coming thick and fast.

Such ignorance of the bible is astonishing.

There is no cure for leprosy in Leviticus.
Go back and read it again and cure your ignorance!

The ritual stated was for people who HAD ALREADY BEEN CURED of their leprosy.

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