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Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain

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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 3, 2013 at 9:26 am
(October 3, 2013 at 9:22 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:
(October 3, 2013 at 9:20 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's like I've always said, this flavour of The Faithful don't worship their god as much as fear it. What a sad waste of a life to throw it all away on the monster under the bed.

The saved love their Saviour, Jesus Christ.

They just can't prove he exists. Rolleyes

Oh, and they lie about their qualifications. I'm sure your saviour approves of that.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 9:31 am
(October 3, 2013 at 9:22 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:
(October 3, 2013 at 9:20 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's like I've always said, this flavour of The Faithful don't worship their god as much as fear it. What a sad waste of a life to throw it all away on the monster under the bed.

The saved love their Saviour, Jesus Christ.

I love Jesus too, but it's more like the love between a man and a fine cuban cigar, as opposed to the love between a man a woman.

What would you do for Jesus, Grace?
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 9:32 am
(October 3, 2013 at 9:22 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:
(October 3, 2013 at 9:20 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's like I've always said, this flavour of The Faithful don't worship their god as much as fear it. What a sad waste of a life to throw it all away on the monster under the bed.

The saved love their Saviour, Jesus Christ.

The enslaved love their master.

You just have to want to be free to be helped.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 10:38 am
But they fear God. Some good loving deity you have to be terminally afraid of being sent to Hell.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 11:06 am (This post was last modified: October 3, 2013 at 11:07 am by Searching4truth.)
Apparently fear doesn't mean fear( to be scared) it means obey... just like hate doesn't mean loathe... it just means to love less

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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 12:41 pm
If you want to use Pascal's wager, you have to apply it evenly to all possibilities. Would it not be safer with respect to Islam to believe in Islam?

Then you realize that Pascal's wager is utterly useless. It is no more likely to lead you to any real conclusion whatsoever.


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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 2:11 pm
Hey, it's the chart I posted way back at the beginning of the thread, that the OP ignored! Big Grin

Maybe this time we'll get a (terrible, arrogant) answer Tongue
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm
ThebeardedDude joined after you made your post so he probably can't be expected to know that.

His version is bigger and more readable than yours though. Deserves some credit.
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm
(October 3, 2013 at 2:11 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Hey, it's the chart I posted way back at the beginning of the thread, that the OP ignored! Big Grin

Maybe this time we'll get a (terrible, arrogant) answer Tongue

Didn't realize it had already been posted...but maybe a reply will happen if it keeps coming up?
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RE: Atheists and Agnostics risk infinite loss for no gain
October 3, 2013 at 2:16 pm
(October 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm)max-greece Wrote: ThebeardedDude joined after you made your post so he probably can't be expected to know that.

His version is bigger and more readable than yours though. Deserves some credit.

Oh, no no, I wasn't admonishing him or anything. Tongue I was drawing attention to it so the OP looks even worse than he already does.
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