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Why believe the bible?
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Quote:This is just false, piranhas will cannibalize each other, they tend to go for injured prey, if a piranha becomes injured, they will attack it.
Humans eat each other too and far worst. If piranhas were mindless killing machines they would eat each other all the time sometimes not even to eat just for fun after all their are human who do that . For your assertion to work their needs to be no conditionals to the act .Otherwise human could be consider non moral beings .
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(July 9, 2018 at 2:04 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: This is just false, piranhas will cannibalize each other, they tend to go for injured prey, if a piranha becomes injured, they will attack it.

There you go, debunked.

But if they were devoid of morality wouldn't they attack other piranhas even when they're not bleeding? What you are describing is an instinct reaction toward the blood which is stronger than their moral senses.
Even humans can have instincts stronger than their moral senses. Like Folie a deux - which is an psychiatric syndrome in which delusional beliefs are transmitted from one person to another that they even kill other people because of mass hysteria.
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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Or a compelling need to protect those you love fueling some terrible act, as an example of why love is not a moral or ethical standard even though it may be some standard of affection or endearment. Our moral agency is compromised by a great deal...but I would reiterate that theres nothing about piranha that would lead us to conclude that whatever pirahna "morality" is has much in common with whatever we;re talking about when we use it in our own context. Theres too much biological divergence for a common inheritance, and too much structural and behavioral divergence for convergence to type.
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I feel like someone has just vomited in my face.
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You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

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(July 10, 2018 at 9:23 am)Drich Wrote: mind you the state never made it to the point where it was fully worshiping hitler as God, but that was the intended purose of the state sanctioned religion./That is what hitler wanted.

Well, that's interesting information, and I can understand that you're distinguishing Positive Christianity from its sources, but I don't see in any of that a demand that Hitler be worshiped as God.

Your latter claim, that this is what he wanted, what are you basing that on?
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And all of this nonsense from Drich because he wants to demonstrate (somehow) that "hating a man according to his thoughts are as bad if not worse the hating for skin color."

Hey, try not hating anyone.

It never ceases to amaze me how Xtians go on about hating, like how their god utterly hates evil for example. Or how Mr God hates fags or whatever.

It's almost like the Xtians are hateful themselves and are trying to justify it through some imaginary being.
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Thanks Obama!
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