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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:48 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 3:01 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 12:50 pm)msid Wrote: well its been great discussing with everyone i now understand your point of view a little more.
i am a 14 year old pastors daughter and i know if i mentioned that earlier i probobally would have been shot down immediately.
thank you for the discussions and i will be praying for all of you 
For what purpose are you intending to pray for us, and why is it necessary that we are aware of the intention? Won't it work - for a given value of 'work' - if we don't know about it?
But this way we can exercise our free will to be grateful or to close our hearts forever to God and all that. Whatever.
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:50 pm
God has worked in my life, too! My uncle got dementia and I got his Toyota. Praise the Lord!!!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:52 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 1:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 2:25 am)msid Wrote: hello, i am a born again christian who is looking to understand and discuss your reasons for being an athiest. i am NOT here to argue or change your mind. People can be atheists as a result of general ignorance; however you will find that many fight against rational faith. They do so for many reasons: previous experiences with unloving Christians, exposure half-truths and lies about the Gospel, or just a general desire to justify sinful sensuality and the conveniences of selfishness.
Oh keep back. Whatever will I do. Rational faith is once more at my door. I am so frightened.
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:53 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 5:50 pm)Alex K Wrote: God has worked in my life, too! My uncle got dementia and I got his Toyota. Praise the Lord!!!
You the Man, God. But listen God, no matter what my stepson prays for, remember we're tight, right? Right??
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:55 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 5:53 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 5:50 pm)Alex K Wrote: God has worked in my life, too! My uncle got dementia and I got his Toyota. Praise the Lord!!!
You the Man, God. But listen God, no matter what my stepson prays for, remember we're tight, right? Right??
Well, it depends... what kind of car you got? 
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:57 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 4:02 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: You know how to make me laugh.
Don't encourage him! He's insufferable when he gets on one of his "atheier than thou" kicks. No one believes less. No one is more skeptical. No one can blaspheme better. Fuck. With Stimbo, it's one atheist dick measuring contest after another.
Which I always win, naturally. I learned long ago that it's not just for stirring my coffee with. The security in Starbucks told me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 5:59 pm
You owe me a tablet screen -_-
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 6:07 pm
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(August 18, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 4:02 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Don't encourage him! He's insufferable when he gets on one of his "atheier than thou" kicks. No one believes less. No one is more skeptical. No one can blaspheme better. Fuck. With Stimbo, it's one atheist dick measuring contest after another.
Which I always win, naturally. I learned long ago that it's not just for stirring my coffee with. The security in Starbucks told me.
Well at least your's will fit in the cup to stir with. I find mine just pushes all the coffee out and then the cup just ends up getting stuck on the head.
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 6:48 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 1:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 2:25 am)msid Wrote: hello, i am a born again christian who is looking to understand and discuss your reasons for being an athiest. i am NOT here to argue or change your mind. People can be atheists as a result of general ignorance; however you will find that many fight against rational faith. They do so for many reasons: previous experiences with unloving Christians, exposure half-truths and lies about the Gospel, or just a general desire to justify sinful sensuality and the conveniences of selfishness.
Nothing rational about "faith".
I've been exposed directly to the scriptures and there's absolutely nothing compelling about them.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: christian looking to understand athiests
August 18, 2015 at 6:55 pm
(August 18, 2015 at 5:48 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: But this way we can exercise our free will to be grateful or to close our hearts forever to God and all that. Whatever.
I read that "whatever" at the end there as an "amen." It works. I like it. 
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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