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RE: Why you can't find God
September 12, 2022 at 12:06 am
Quote:You all know damned well that there is a God.,..
Nope 
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 12, 2022 at 4:58 am
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 12, 2022 at 6:58 am
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@ MilesAbbott81
The burden of proof lies on he who alleges. Religious people should know that I’m perfectly willing to believe in god(s), ghosts, mediums, demons, angels, spirits, channeling, miracles, horoscopes, astrology, psychics, Ouija boards, the supernatural, and anything else for that matter as long as they adhere to one proviso: Prove it! Don’t give me speculation, guesses, hopes, dreams, wishes, desires, beliefs, faith (or appeals to faith), or indoctrinations. Don’t give me one-time-only, non-repeatable, non-testable events. Don’t give me internal alterations in one’s psychology or physiology that can’t be tested observed, or demonstrated, only felt or believed. And don’t give me effects that can’t be clearly related to the supposed cause.
I have no objection to believing in a god as long as proof based upon a rational standard of knowledge is forthcoming. Is that too much to ask? But surely theists can’t expect me to adopt their beliefs on the basis of what has been presented thus far. Every “proof” I’ve heard and every piece of evidence I’ve seen for the existence of god(s) is easily countered by rational evidence and arguments to the contrary. No convincing evidence for the existence of any deity has ever emerged. But I’m more than willing to listen to theistic arguments or view theistic evidence as long as cross-examination is permitted. As conditions now stand, theology rests far more on superstition and faith than upon facts and reason.
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 12, 2022 at 9:40 am
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 12, 2022 at 9:50 am
(September 12, 2022 at 9:40 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: https://www.wikihow.com/Persuade-an-Athe...-Christian
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 13, 2022 at 9:48 am
(September 12, 2022 at 4:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (September 11, 2022 at 8:05 pm)GUBU Wrote: LANCB.
If I had a dollar for every rage-quitter that LANCB’d us and then continued to post, I’d never need another dollar.
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 13, 2022 at 12:03 pm
(September 13, 2022 at 9:48 am)GUBU Wrote: (September 12, 2022 at 4:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If I had a dollar for every rage-quitter that LANCB’d us and then continued to post, I’d never need another dollar.
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You'd also be able to buy me a house.
I could do that now. I won’t, but I could. 
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 13, 2022 at 12:23 pm
So, according to MilesAbbott81, God exists because Bible says so, and atheists can't see him because Bible says they are fools.
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: Why you can't find God
September 13, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Air-tight logic.
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RE: Why you can't find God
September 13, 2022 at 1:07 pm
(September 13, 2022 at 12:51 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Air-tight logic.
It absolutely is! No oxygen is ever getting past that logic to invade his brain!
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