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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 10:59 am
I've never heard not lame defense of theism.
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 12:30 pm
'I believe what is in the Bible because it is true - if it wasn't true, it wouldn't be in the Bible.'
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 12:31 pm
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Some people seem to think ten irrational arguments add up to one rational one. They do not. One rational one would do; but even then, it needs evidence. Otherwise you can't be sure if your pontificating actually applies to reality, and not the simplistic model you've reduced it to.
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 12:32 pm
(February 14, 2016 at 12:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'I believe what is in the Bible because it is true - if it wasn't true, it wouldn't be in the Bible.'
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Whenever I hear that one, I think of the ad with the blond lady who said "they can't put it on the internet if it's not true."
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 12:35 pm
Lamest or rather the toughest argument: "I know it seems illogical, but still I believe it to be the truth".
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Imagine the crap in this thread if the topic was:
What's the lamest defence of Mormonism you've ever heard?
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 1:35 pm
It annoys me when someone keeps going on about faith (belief in spite of lack of evidence) and then shows me what they consider to be a bunch of evidence. Which is it?
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 14, 2016 at 2:21 pm
The lamest defence I have ever seen has got to be this one:
(February 11, 2012 at 10:11 pm)Koklanas Wrote: God's inexistence is Illogical in a situation whre murderers who died of natural death due to old age went unpunished.
Believing in God and day of judgement in Islam would easily explain the existence of God.
Basically, "if Silicon Heaven doesn't exist, where do all the calculators go? Checkmate, athiests!!!!!"
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.'