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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 3:06 am
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He's quite welcome to turn up and demonstrate. It would save all this nonsense.
If you already believe he is God, then him pretending to be a human, pretending to die and then going "Tadah!" is not really that impressive.
And if you don't already believe he is God, these arguments are woefully inadequate to alter that.
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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 3:31 am
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You only need ask why he doesn't accept the magical stories in every other religious text to see the obvious special pleading and total lack of intellectual rigour at work.
Would it be reasonable to call religion a "socially acceptable professed delusion"? That's the best case scenario anyway. The professed part is optional. The idea that these delusions are adequate responses to any real world question just buggers my mind.
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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 4:24 am
(August 14, 2015 at 2:07 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Following again. Another interesting thread, Randy.
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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 4:27 am
Well this thread is another pile of shite, so technically it is a contribution.
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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 4:43 am
Confabulation! That's the explanation. Can we move on now or do we need another thread on the resurrection in such a short period of time?
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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 4:45 am
Actually, this is the same thread all over again.
In the end, it can be broken down to:
'BBBBBUT THE TOMB WAS EMPTY!!!!1!1!1 WHAT'S YOUR THEORY HUH?!?!?!!'
All the objections to this line of thinking notwithstanding. I guess they're not in his scenario.
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RE: DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY
August 14, 2015 at 5:24 am
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(August 14, 2015 at 4:45 am)Neimenovic Wrote: Actually, this is the same thread all over again.
In the end, it can be broken down to:
'BBBBBUT THE TOMB WAS EMPTY!!!!1!1!1 WHAT'S YOUR THEORY HUH?!?!?!!'
All the objections to this line of thinking notwithstanding. I guess they're not in his scenario.
If they don't have the biological evidence corroborating resurrections, I just don't care. All this is empty conjecture without hard evidence corroborating the vague, biased resurrection anecdotes. Nothing has changed since the last thread.
I really don't understand these kind of arguments about naturalism vs supernaturalism. Supernaturalists want to claim there are things beyond the scope of scientific investigation; yet, they rule out rival non-scientific claims with no argument or evidence. After all, if science is to be ignored by Christian theists then I don't see why non-Christian theists and atheists can't cook up non-scientific claims too without evidence.
Holy double standards!
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