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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 1:12 am
(February 26, 2015 at 9:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (February 25, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Beccs Wrote: Volunteered over Christmas in Sierra Leone to help combat ebola. God gives everyone a conscience. Glad to to hear that you listened to the soft still voice and had the ability to act upon it. All that is left for you to do now is recognize the source of the voice and thank it.
Evolution gave people a conscience, but not everyone has one due to developmental differences, i.e. sociopaths and psychopaths.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 3:49 am
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 8:53 am
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 9:06 am
@ Ignorant, sorry about post #228. It probably is very scrambled and hard to decipher. My mind was racing and thoughts kept repeating, but I didn't realize there was anything wrong until a few hours later. 
So just ignore it. It's probably unreadable.
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 9:12 am
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@GC
In case you don't see where I'm going here...
Im inviting you to personally appraise your own intelligence and, rank yourself on a 1-10 level. If you think you are among the top ten percent, give yourself a 1, if you are confident that compared to the other members you are average, take a 5, etc.
Of course, you don't have to tell me what your number is, but the implications are there whether you tell me or not...
I'm trying to get you to see that once you admit that there's a good chance that, when it comes to critically evaluating the intricacies of a complex idea, there are at least a few Atheists on this site who, at any moment in a disagreement, are right while you are wrong. And, you're not wrong because you're stupid. You're wrong because you incorrectly interpreted the information. Once you start recognizing that as a possibility, you can take the opportunity to learn from that experience. There are sometimes GC, where you are just blatantly wrong and seem content on being obtuse. If you can realize that you're not the smartest person on here, you can realize your next opportunity to learn something when that person, whoever they may be, starts trying to explain something to you. Just an idea. Take it or leave it...
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 9:46 am
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(February 27, 2015 at 9:12 am)The Reality Salesman Wrote: Just an idea. Take it or leave it... And elegantly stated. I'm putting a tenner on GC just disagreeing with you anyway.
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 12:21 pm
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 4:29 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 1:12 am)Chas Wrote: (February 26, 2015 at 9:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: God gives everyone a conscience. Glad to to hear that you listened to the soft still voice and had the ability to act upon it. All that is left for you to do now is recognize the source of the voice and thank it.
Evolution gave people a conscience, but not everyone has one due to developmental differences, i.e. sociopaths and psychopaths.
You have proof of this I suppose, actually you need to prove evolution before making assertions about what it did.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 4:36 pm
(February 27, 2015 at 4:29 pm)Godschild Wrote: (February 27, 2015 at 1:12 am)Chas Wrote: Evolution gave people a conscience, but not everyone has one due to developmental differences, i.e. sociopaths and psychopaths.
You have proof of this I suppose, actually you need to prove evolution before making assertions about what it did.
GC
Our need to get along as a social species necessitates coming up with rules to get along together. These are morals. Morals most often fall apart when interacting with other groups, for instance when we executed japanese soldiers for waterboarding out troops in WW2, but our government claims waterboarding isn't torture when we do it to other people.
That is how morals come to be within a group, but also shows why they are subjective.
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RE: Christians, Prove Your God Is Good
February 27, 2015 at 4:36 pm
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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