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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 8:54 pm
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Matey, how can we have god in our heart if no one on earth have even come close to describing what it is we should be feeling? More woo coming up I suspect in the form of "soul or spiritual"?
As explained by some theists, god lives outside our physical universe, but every Tom, Dick and Harry knows and understands him intimately. Please explain to us how that may work?
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:21 pm
Last I checked, the only thing my heart does is pump blood.
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:21 pm
@ scoobysnack
Please do not include me in your presuppositionalist strawman. It is highly presumptuous and deeply offensive to 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: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:27 pm
(February 6, 2016 at 7:59 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: I would say everyone in their heart knows God exists
Thank you for starting with this. It let me know that not only is the rest of your post tripe that doesn't need to be read, I can also safely skip anything else you have to saw on religious topics.
No, not everyone believes deep down. Sorry, that tired old straw man is no more true today than it ever was.
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:30 pm
(February 6, 2016 at 9:21 pm)The_Empress Wrote: Last I checked, the only thing my heart does is pump blood.
And, as good a job as it does, there are far better pump designs out there. Pretty shoddy work for the all knowing, all powerful creator if you ask me. 
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:37 pm
(February 6, 2016 at 7:59 pm)scoobysnack Wrote: I would say everyone in their heart knows God exists, and some are better than others at suppressing that. Some are angry at God, and some need more evidence before they accept that subconscious belief. This is why I will never give up pushing the information learned by others through near death experiences. Even if you don't agree and think they are hallucination, the lessons they learned and information they brought back is too important for humanity, and the individual to ignore.
My husband has a subconscious belief that if you express a positive belief that things will go right, they will go wrong. It's a common superstition held in the East and in the West. Many people like my husband know it's irrational, yet they feel it's true even though they know it isn't. God is like that for many atheists. So I get what Elizabeth King is talking about. And if you think about superstitions honestly, so will you. It isn't denying what's real, it's denying what's irrational.
But you don't really want to think about it honestly. You want to shore up your own faith. No one prays to have faith in evolution, or gravity, or the big bang. But belief in god requires constant shoring up through prayer. Think about it.
In the meantime you serve a useful purpose here. You demonstrate to doubting theist lurkers the vaucity of your reasoning.
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:44 pm
1. God is barely stirred, much less shaken.
2. Hellooo...Invisibility?
3. Increased awareness (Shaken Baby Jesus Syndrome)
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:53 pm
Dear Athrock,
You are a moron.
Sincerely,
Everyone with a functional brain.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 9:55 pm
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RE: I’m an atheist. So why can’t I shake God?
February 6, 2016 at 10:10 pm
I think you mean vagical, MK.
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