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What do you think of this passage?

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What do you think of this passage?
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RE: What do you think of this passage?
March 15, 2016 at 2:17 pm
If I start a new religion, with a new deity, will that concern you truth seeker?
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RE: What do you think of this passage?
March 15, 2016 at 5:32 pm (This post was last modified: March 15, 2016 at 5:44 pm by truth_seeker.)
(March 15, 2016 at 2:10 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:
(March 15, 2016 at 1:50 pm)truth_seeker Wrote: I am also not aware of a claim that Karma or Samsara has claimed that it/he/she is a deity. is it? Huh

You'd have to get into the individual religious beliefs for that, and there are many many many many.

Is it really that many? I don't think so.
See, the deities without a punishment plan has no risk or cost involved in disbelieving in them, so they don't count. So we end up with a only a few possibilities in the final short list for further investigation.


(March 15, 2016 at 2:17 pm)robvalue Wrote: If I start a new religion, with a new deity, will that concern you truth seeker?

Big Grin Big Grin  sure, send me your book/manifesto when you're done and I promise I'll look at it ..

actually, this god makes a statement about this point:

Quote:If ye are in doubt concerning that which We revealed, then produce a book of the like thereof, and assemble your supporters, if ye are truthful.
And if ye do it not - and ye will never do it - then guard yourselves against the Fire, prepared for the disbelievers
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RE: What do you think of this passage?
March 15, 2016 at 5:52 pm (This post was last modified: March 15, 2016 at 5:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There seems to be very little risk in angering that god.  It's plainly incompetent, it would have to be, to make such a statement.
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RE: What do you think of this passage?
March 18, 2016 at 8:01 am
The manifesto of this God is simple:

Believing in gods results in punishment. Evidence has been deliberately presented as inadequate as a test of critical thinking.

Those who discard the evidence and don't believe in gods will be rewarded.
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RE: What do you think of this passage?
March 18, 2016 at 8:45 am
(March 18, 2016 at 8:01 am)robvalue Wrote: The manifesto of this God is simple:
Believing in gods results in punishment ...

So this god is asking me to disbelieve in it Smile ? Okay.
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