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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 15, 2016 at 5:37 am
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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 15, 2016 at 7:26 am
Lol. "We" atheists.
This little gambit of pretending to be an atheist whilst laying out your apologetics... Trite.
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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 15, 2016 at 8:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2016 at 8:47 am by Fake Messiah.)
It would be great if there was even a grain of truth that Christians were keen always to find peaceful solution, turn other cheek and that they only follow "good parts" from the Bible. I mean take the wars in Middle East that are only for oil wells and imagine if Christians in US and Europe got together and said "We demand wars be stopped. This war must be fought with logistics, not blood and that huge chunk of money invested in alternatives to oil." but that sounds ridiculous, that will never happen. For instance Catholic church probably makes billions sending priests to Middle East as a "moral" relief to soldiers and as an overall "moral" backing for the shameful deeds that apparently even Hillary and Trump are now accusing each other being for it.
Not to mention Evangelical hate groups.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 15, 2016 at 10:07 am
I never understood the celebrity status of Dawkins among some atheists. He beclowns himself with straw man objections to serious arguments.
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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 21, 2016 at 8:55 pm
apologist is the most rational stance for belief and non belief. Working with each other, using observations, and growing. Anti-apologetic is narrow minded, self serving, and limited understanding. fund/milli mental or adult children of abuse, either way, not the best leaders.
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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 21, 2016 at 8:59 pm
Making up excuses for lunacy is not rational. Try again.
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RE: Another apologist with his "clever" questions
October 22, 2016 at 7:05 am
(October 21, 2016 at 8:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Making up excuses for lunacy is not rational. Try again.
I was talking about apologetics, not the stance.
The person the op is talking about is not even clever. He just gave us personal opinions. We do not have to have a "god" for the things he was talking about. For example "meaning", we don't know enough to have a grand meaning and inserting a god doesn't give us meaning. It may give a person a meaning, but that is just an opinion.
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