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Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
(November 6, 2022 at 10:11 am)Angrboda Wrote: Someone like Joel Osteen may be tirelessly engaged in the lord's work, yet inwardly just a conman and a grifter who is using the ministry to his own benefit. 

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RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
(November 3, 2022 at 7:11 pm)Jehanne Wrote:
(November 3, 2022 at 6:56 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Virtually everything we know about Socrates comes from Plato and Xenophon - Socrates wrote nothing. Can we infer from this that Socrates was illiterate?

Boru

No, of course not!  But, Plato, in recounting his Teacher, mentions him by name.  Nothing at all similar for Jesus, who, supposedly, "taught with great authority".

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