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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 9:52 am
(December 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm)Delicate Wrote: You get your head checked.
On a more serious note, I don't expect any self-proclaimed atheists to find it compelling. Atheism is fundamentally an emotional position, not a rational position. You might have no rational criticism of any of the arguments, or even understand them.
But you just don't FEEL good about believing in the existence of God.
So I'm not surprised. If you really want to figure out what's next, it would be to lay your feelings aside, think like a rational person, and figure out if there are problems with the argument.
And it would also help to get over your irrational feelings. But that's a long shot.
That wasn't any more compelling than the link...I still don't believe. Next?
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 10:10 am
(December 15, 2015 at 11:09 pm)Delicate Wrote: I like intelligent, stimulating discussion. Hence I'm hardly ever here.
Could you lay out more clearly how you conclude the 1:99 ratio?
I thought you were one of those mensa types, if I have to explain stuff already we're never going to rise up to your expectations. You know, where God promises no barren wombs or sickness to show his love or his love for us so he won't capriciously kill us at this moment verses down right anger, damnation, fire from the sky, and death kind of thing... Surely you know more than I, as you have stated. I suppose I have to tell you where the flood parts are... I just happen to notice in my research that the love part that everyone thinks is in the texts isn't there and mostly death and destruction. So, that was the question just in case you got lost. Tell me where all the love parts are, don't worry there isn't much. The 99% part is easy and don't forget no blanket existence and making the universe just for us stuff as a consideration of his love. I want to hear the real stuff like what most humans understand as acts of love.
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 11:55 am
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 11:58 am
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 11:58 am
(December 15, 2015 at 5:55 pm)Delicate Wrote: (December 15, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I didn't find the link you gave compelling, I still don't believe. What's next?
You get your head checked.
On a more serious note, I don't expect any self-proclaimed atheists to find it compelling. Atheism is fundamentally an emotional position, not a rational position. You might have no rational criticism of any of the arguments, or even understand them.
But you just don't FEEL good about believing in the existence of God.
So I'm not surprised. If you really want to figure out what's next, it would be to lay your feelings aside, think like a rational person, and figure out if there are problems with the argument.
And it would also help to get over your irrational feelings. But that's a long shot.
I wonder, are you trying to make a point about how some atheists behave towards religious people? I have to say it looks so
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 2:00 pm
What's a "god"? What is it made from and how do I test for its existence?
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 2:08 pm
I bet Episode 2 is the same thing with a different title.
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 2:33 pm
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RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 2:38 pm
And incidentally, Delicate? If you're going to go off on a tear about evidence for god, perhaps linking to a source that begins its first sentence asserting that you don't need evidence for god because everybody knows god exists isn't the most consistent thing to do? Doesn't that completely go against your assertion that atheists only don't know god exists because they're stupid meanie-pants? 
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