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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 17, 2015 at 10:59 pm
(June 17, 2015 at 10:53 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 10:45 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: More importantly, how many of those kids were welcomed into eternity by God the moment they died?
All of them.
I hope the same can be said for us one day.
Indeed - I do hope to be able to say one day, that you died of starvation, you sanctimonious fool. Who are you to decide what happened to those children? You're making sh*t up in order to make light of human suffering.
Despicable...
Gotta love the way atheists express their...what is it again...ah...their empathy with others. ![[Image: rolleyes.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=forums.catholic.com%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Frolleyes.gif)
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 17, 2015 at 11:04 pm
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I know, it was so undeserved...all you did was marginalize the very real tragedy of starving children in order to aggrandize your favorite bedtime story.......gee...what a dick.
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 17, 2015 at 11:26 pm
(June 17, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 10:53 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Indeed - I do hope to be able to say one day, that you died of starvation, you sanctimonious fool. Who are you to decide what happened to those children? You're making sh*t up in order to make light of human suffering.
Despicable...
Gotta love the way atheists express their...what is it again...ah...their empathy with others.
Yes it is. If you look, you'll see that we're very empathetic with all manner of people: those willing to engage with us respectfully, those who value our autonomy enough to allow us to speak for ourselves, the disenfranchised and vulnerable...
And hey! There's also a trend for those who don't get our empathy: those who engage with us in dishonest or ad hoc ways, those who value being correct over our autonomy and the real suffering of other human beings...
It's almost as if our empathy is extended to those who have proven themselves capable of having it themselves, and restricted from those who are willing to treat others poorly and discard their empathy in favor of furthering their ideological agenda. Like, say, if someone were to say something incredibly callous and horrible in order to preserve an idea they like, and then wonder why everyone else is horrified and angry rather than being nice and respectful to him. Maybe that person has also had a sustained campaign of hypocrisy, lies and arrogance leveled at those others for weeks... 
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 17, 2015 at 11:41 pm
(June 17, 2015 at 10:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 1:08 am)Neimenovic Wrote: They relate to more or less the same thing. Adress the bolded part. Present the line of reasoning that led you from a creator to Yahweh to catholic Yahweh.
I don't mind discussing the connections...but I'm really trying to wind this thread up to avoid having too many active at once.
I said what I wanted to say in the OP, and I've entertained some discussion, etc. but I told Becca that I'm wrapping this up, and I am.
oh, of course.....more dodges. I wonder why you avoid that question....
Really Randy. I want to like you, but the disingenuous asshole in you won't let me. There's little discussion to be had with you. shame.
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 18, 2015 at 12:37 am
(June 17, 2015 at 10:45 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 12:01 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: How many kids died of starvation in Africa while your gawd was playing "Easter Egg" with Jenny's spare change?!?
More importantly, how many of those kids were welcomed into eternity by God the moment they died?
All of them.
I hope the same can be said for us one day. (emphasis is mine)
Pretty bold claim.
Prove it.
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 18, 2015 at 12:41 am
(June 17, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 10:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I don't mind discussing the connections...but I'm really trying to wind this thread up to avoid having too many active at once.
I said what I wanted to say in the OP, and I've entertained some discussion, etc. but I told Becca that I'm wrapping this up, and I am.
oh, of course.....more dodges. I wonder why you avoid that question....
Really Randy. I want to like you, but the disingenuous asshole in you won't let me. There's little discussion to be had with you. shame.
It's hard to spend time in actual, honest discussion when you're busy building a straw man army and knocking them down.
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 19, 2015 at 10:01 am
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(June 17, 2015 at 10:59 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 10:53 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Indeed - I do hope to be able to say one day, that you died of starvation, you sanctimonious fool. Who are you to decide what happened to those children? You're making sh*t up in order to make light of human suffering.
Despicable...
Gotta love the way atheists express their...what is it again...ah...their empathy with others.
Gotta love the way Catholics generalize about whole demographics of millions from a few posts a few people make....
We tend to have more empathy for the unfortunate. Are you one of the unfortunate?
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 19, 2015 at 11:00 am
(June 18, 2015 at 12:37 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: (June 17, 2015 at 10:45 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: More importantly, how many of those kids were welcomed into eternity by God the moment they died?
All of them.
I hope the same can be said for us one day. (emphasis is mine)
Pretty bold claim.
Prove it.
He doesn't need to, because a series of tu coque fallacies followed up by a baseless assertion of presuppositionalism! 
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 19, 2015 at 11:04 am
It didn't take him long to show his true colors. Usually these apologists manage to hold together their disingenuous façade a little longer.
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RE: Atheism, Evidence and the God-of-the-Gaps
June 19, 2015 at 11:34 am
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I disagree.....I can smell them the moment they join. You can't -hide- that kind of stench. The moment someone asks us "why be good" for example..it's clear that, for whatever reason, they simply -aren't-.
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