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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 4:43 am
God is the ultimate lawgiver, without him humanity would have no morals.
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 5:04 am
'There are real places mentioned in the Bible. Therefore, the Bible is true.'
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 5:17 am
(July 21, 2010 at 5:06 am)leo-rcc Wrote: I love the Spiderman reply on that. 
What? You mean Spiderman isn't real? But they made that series of documentaries about him with Tobey Maguire!
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Ontological argument hands down.
'if we can conceive of the greatest possible being, then it must exist'
What a load of old shit.
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 12:50 pm
It assumes that existence is better than non-existence.
What a stupid assumption. Sometimes existence can be way worse than non-existence since non-existence isn't anything and existence can sometimes be horrible in certain situations, for certain people, etc.
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Variations on this theme:
1. The Bible says Jesus is the Son of God.
2. We know we can trust the Bible on this because Jesus proved it by fulfilling the Bible's prophecies.
3. We know he did fulfill the Bible's prophecies because the Bible tells us he did.
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2010 at 3:35 pm by Jaysyn.)
I can't say that I've ever heard a good one.
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RE: Worst Argument For Religion You Have Ever Heard?
July 21, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Yes, all the arguments are terrible.
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