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#21
RE: Debate Challenge
November 15, 2015 at 11:57 pm
(November 15, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Chad32 Wrote:
(November 15, 2015 at 11:12 pm)Irrational Wrote: Chad is a theist ...

I believe he means me. the atheistic Chad in these parts. And I'm not even a former Swedenborgian.

Oops, my bad. I did not notice your post in this thread.
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#22
RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 12:07 am (This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 12:08 am by Chad32.)
(November 15, 2015 at 11:57 pm)Irrational Wrote:
(November 15, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I believe he means me. the atheistic Chad in these parts. And I'm not even a former Swedenborgian.

Oops, my bad. I did not notice your post in this thread.

How dare you!? As apology, you will go and read my entire post history. I will accept nothing less.
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RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 12:12 am
(November 15, 2015 at 6:33 pm)TruthisGod Wrote: Hello. I have been engaging in debates with atheists on the existence of God for many years now, and I still have yet to find a worthy opponent who is capable of defeating me. I'm here to issue a challenge to any atheist with the guts to take me on. Would anyone be interested?
I'm game, we have formatted debate forum here that has been quiet for too long.
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
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#24
RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 12:52 am (This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 12:52 am by Heat.)
Here's a challenge:

How about you start by providing me concrete evidence that Thor, and Zeus do not exist.

Go on, do it. It's exactly what I assume an argument with you would be like.


"Well I can probably prove their claims wrong but I can never know for sure"

That's the argument that you so foolishly think grants you permit to claim that you haven't been proven wrong.
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RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 1:00 am
(November 15, 2015 at 6:33 pm)TruthisGod Wrote: Hello. I have been engaging in debates with atheists on the existence of God for many years now, and I still have yet to find a worthy opponent who is capable of defeating me. I'm here to issue a challenge to any atheist with the guts to take me on. Would anyone be interested?

I think I've heard about you.  Are you by any chance a chess playing pigeon?
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#26
RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 1:07 am
(November 15, 2015 at 7:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote:
(November 15, 2015 at 6:33 pm)TruthisGod Wrote: Hello. I have been engaging in debates with atheists on the existence of God for many years now, and I still have yet to find a worthy opponent who is capable of defeating me. I'm here to issue a challenge to any atheist with the guts to take me on. Would anyone be interested?

The debate ends at "where's your evidence."

It's funny.  I was always a very weak agnostic atheist until I actually started reading and listening to debates like the one you propose.  It was only then that I realized just how terrible the arguments for god are, and my certainty that god is just an invention of the human mind grew stronger and stronger.


I agree entirely but question the role of "just" where I bolded it.  Lots of things are inventions of the human mind.  Many of those are celebrated.  I think 'god' is an invention of the human mind in the same way as symbolic language.  Both are something that arise almost everywhere people have gone and at all times.
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RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 1:38 am
(November 15, 2015 at 11:04 pm)TruthisGod Wrote: Ok, BennyBoy and Chad have accepted. I don't care which one of you debates me, but I'm glad to see 2 takers of the challenge. We can do it on this forum.

There is a specific subforum for formal debates.  You should arrange with the moderators to make a thread there.  If you intend to debate both of us, I prefer you make a separate thread for each of us.
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RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 1:41 am
(November 16, 2015 at 1:38 am)bennyboy Wrote:
(November 15, 2015 at 11:04 pm)TruthisGod Wrote: Ok, BennyBoy and Chad have accepted. I don't care which one of you debates me, but I'm glad to see 2 takers of the challenge. We can do it on this forum.

There is a specific subforum for formal debates.  You should arrange with the moderators to make a thread there.  If you intend to debate both of us, I prefer you make a separate thread for each of us.

If I were still on staff, I'd vote against allowing a debate in the formal debate section until the OP has established him/herself as a member. As it is, someone will have to make a request to staff.
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RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 1:43 am
(November 15, 2015 at 6:33 pm)TruthisGod Wrote: Hello. I have been engaging in debates with atheists on the existence of God for many years now, and I still have yet to find a worthy opponent who is capable of defeating me. I'm here to issue a challenge to any atheist with the guts to take me on. Would anyone be interested?

- We are all Gods children.
- Mary is Gods daughter.
- Jesus is Gods son.
- Jesus is God.
- Therefore Jesus/God is the product of incest.

Discuss.
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RE: Debate Challenge
November 16, 2015 at 1:58 am (This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 2:00 am by robvalue.)
If the OP can even define what a god is, in a way we can distinguish from nothing at all, I'll be impressed.

And I don't want a list of things it has supposedly done, or accolades it has awarded itself. Or a list of things it is not. I want to know what it is, and in what way it actually exists at all.
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