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Why Christianity?

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Why Christianity?
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#291
RE: Why Christianity?
August 20, 2015 at 10:47 pm
I'm glad we agree. Hopefully, you've at least learned the error of your ways so you'll stop plagiarizing, but I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed.
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RE: Why Christianity?
August 20, 2015 at 10:48 pm
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#293
RE: Why Christianity?
August 20, 2015 at 11:07 pm
(August 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:
(August 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I have a funny story about that GT bee of yours.  My brother-in-law who is an embezzler (don't worry his wife and Jesus forgave him), and more money oriented than anyone I know (his conversation is all about salary and cost of toys), but also an evangelical (he can't talk about his church without talking about money either) had your avatar in the form of a flag on his lawn.   Yeah, I don't like him much though I love my husband's sister.  But getting back to my story his bee caused me to Google image search it as I suspected a Christian symbol that I didn't know about.  Nope:  Georgia Tech, his alma mater.  It's a very good school.  But it didn't teach you to reason dispassionately or how to weigh evidence.  And it didn't teach him ethics or even how to go about embezzling very well.

I went to Michigan. What does that say about me?  J/K. Wink


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— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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#294
RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:08 am
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:15 am
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#296
RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:17 am
As I said in another thread, any lie told for jeebus is ok.
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RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:19 am
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:23 am
(August 21, 2015 at 12:17 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: As I said in another thread, any lie told for jeebus is ok.

And you've been wrong twice.

I didn't lie; what I posted about the "dying and rising gods" nonsense was the truth.
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RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:25 am
(August 21, 2015 at 12:19 am)Jenny A Wrote:
(August 21, 2015 at 12:15 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Winning? This is not a zero-sum game, Jenny.

And if someone reads something I post, and their eternal destiny is changed for the better, who is the loser?

If you have to lie and cheat to get the message across, chances are it's a bad message.  There is really no such thing as eternal destiny.  When you die you die.  You might cheat them into wasting the one life they have though.

Jenny-

This is bad logic on your part. The message isn't bad - the prejudices of the audience are. If I start a post by saying, "Well, according to William Lane Craig...", half the forum tunes out before they read another word.

As for your "this life is all there is" view, well, another thread, another day.
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RE: Why Christianity?
August 21, 2015 at 12:32 am
(August 21, 2015 at 12:23 am)Randy Carson Wrote:
(August 21, 2015 at 12:17 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: As I said in another thread, any lie told for jeebus is ok.

And you've been wrong twice.

I didn't lie; what I posted about the "dying and rising gods" nonsense was the truth.

What the fuck are you talking about?!? I don't think I commented on your "dying and rising gods" but even if I did, that's not the other thread I was referring to. Try to keep us straight Randy.
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