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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

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Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:17 am
(December 23, 2013 at 5:13 am)savedwheat Wrote: What sources for anyone are contemporary in antiquity? The earliest sources we have are hundreds if not thousands of years later for others? Yet we accept those figures existed.

Do we accept magic claims about those others?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:19 am (This post was last modified: December 23, 2013 at 5:19 am by Cinjin.)
(December 23, 2013 at 5:13 am)savedwheat Wrote: What sources for anyone are contemporary in antiquity? The earliest sources we have are hundreds if not thousands of years later for others? Yet we accept those figures existed.

Genghis Khan can be verified. Jesus can't
Plato can be verified. Jesus can't
Pharoah Narmer can be verified. Jesus can't.

The list is massive but I'm going to stop at three.
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#63
RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:19 am (This post was last modified: December 23, 2013 at 5:19 am by savedwheat.)
Who's we?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:20 am
(December 23, 2013 at 5:19 am)savedwheat Wrote: Who's we?

rational people.

non sheep
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:21 am
I for one don't believe in magic as it seems there is always a naturalistic explanation.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:22 am
(December 23, 2013 at 5:21 am)savedwheat Wrote: I for one don't believe in magic as it seems there is always a naturalistic explanation.

You're the one arguing in favor of the Bible. Undecided
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:23 am
What makes you think the Bible is magic?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:23 am
(December 23, 2013 at 5:17 am)savedwheat Wrote: Then we don't know anyone who lived before Jesus by your same standard. What historian takes that position?

False equivocation.

As has been explained to you, there are corroborating sources for figures such as homer, Aristotle, Caesar, Pythagoras, and so on.

You keep asserting that Jesus and the apostles were real people 'in antiquity', but you have failed to demonstrate this beyond all doubt.

There are no accounts for Jesus for when he supposedly lived, none at all, except the bible. And, again, as Esquilax has demonstrated to you previously as well, the bible is nothing more than a claim, not evidence.

Does this make sense to you?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:24 am
(December 23, 2013 at 5:17 am)savedwheat Wrote: Then we don't know anyone who lived before Jesus by your same standard. What historian takes that position?

Most of the people you are referring to were ordinary people doing ordinary things.

Your god boy is supposed to be divine, I would think a great deal more evidence is required.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:24 am
(December 23, 2013 at 5:23 am)savedwheat Wrote: What makes you think the Bible is magic?

You're being deliberately obtuse. We've explained our position well. Do have anything more to add other than these obvious slights?
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