Helpful hints for christians

[Chad32]

Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but it is one hurdle out of the way.

[robvalue]

Not stabbing yourself in the eye with a pen every morning doesn't mean you're smart either.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but it is one hurdle out of the way.

And from my perspective ruling out transcendent causes in favor of naturalism while maintaining a commitment to intentionality requires massive logical inconsistencies.

[Edwardo Piet]

But then you're bound to say some bullshit like that.

[Chad32]

Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but it is one hurdle out of the way.

And from my perspective ruling out transcendent causes in favor of naturalism while maintaining a commitment to intentionality requires massive logical inconsistencies.

Everything that we've ever found an explanation for has had natural causes. Relying on evidence, and using proven facts as a foundation for knowledge, is not logically inconsistent.

[Homeless Nutter]

And from my perspective ruling out transcendent causes in favor of naturalism while maintaining a commitment to intentionality requires massive logical inconsistencies.

Oh, "inconsistencies" - you mean like wearing seat-belts, while believing in an invisible, omnipresent and omnipotent nanny in the sky, as well as an infinitely better life after death? Those kinds of "inconsistencies"?

[houseofcantor]

Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but it is one hurdle out of the way.

And from my perspective ruling out transcendent causes in favor of naturalism while maintaining a commitment to intentionality requires massive logical inconsistencies.

Maybe it's early - but what is this "commitment to intentionality" of which you speak?

[drfuzzy]

If you are talking with a atheist being online or in person remember this.

1. Do not badger us about god and or jesus

2. Do no waste your time preaching to us  

3. Do not use hell as a means to make us believe  in what you do

4. We get that you want to save us from some external torment but don't bother.

5. Don't be a asshole  no one like christian assholes..

6. Atheists please  do not say we are atheists because we love to sin because on your end it makes you guys look like hypocrites

7. Don't say were immoral because on your end it looks bad if you need the bible to give you morals.

Hear, hear!  Can we add this to the official rules, and make it a 3-strikes you're out?  Oh and wait [edit] - we need something limiting the number of cut 'n' paste Bible verses . . .

[Chad32]

I'm glad my suggestion got seconded.

[Crossless2.0]

Being an atheist doesn't make you smart, but it is one hurdle out of the way.

And from my perspective ruling out transcendent causes in favor of naturalism while maintaining a commitment to intentionality requires massive logical inconsistencies.

And from my perspective, embracing some transcendent cause by way of philosophical argument and then deciding on nothing more than "well, I had a private experience that I can't adequately communicate to you" that this cause just happens to be identical with the deity found in the holy book one has already embraced involves a massive disconnect -- at least so far as one wishes to persuade others that Yahweh is the transcendent cause Aquinas/Aristotle were really "demonstrating".