Deputy Dog:
Thanks for making my point!
You're welcome, I guess. Care to share your point, whatever it is? Surely it's not as simplistic as the fact that part of my beliefs may include unknowns, or even nothing? What sort of point would that be?
funkyderek
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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funkyderek
Deputy Dog:
What's the origin of all your evidence? The Big Bang? What caused that?
What are you getting at? Why couldn't the Big Bang be an Uncaused Cause? Or don't you believe in such things?
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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funkyderek
Deputy Dog:
You're the one with a belief based on nothing.
What belief is that? To the best of my knowledge - and intentions - all my beliefs are based on evidence.
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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funkyderek
BurnTheShips:
Talk about intolerance!
I'm not intolerant of people with different belief systems. I am intolerant of people who use language so incorrectly that they can define themselves in an inherently contradictory way.
Such elitist trollop. But to be expected from FD. FD is so much smarter than everyone else.
No, just smarter than most! Anyway, you started it, claiming that a quarter of people were retarded. That's certainly not true. Intelligence follows a fairly standard bell curve so the numbers drop off quite dramatically before you get to a level that would normally be defined as retarded. However, my statement that half of people are below average is necessarily true (for certain definitions of average at least). And the average person is really not that smart. But I'm not suggesting that we sterilise the average person, just atheists who believe in God, Christians who don't believe in Jesus, vegetarians who eat fish and so on.
Apparently, some atheists have a very thin skin. Where is the NUANCE?
Too subtle for you? I did stick a smiley at the end.
As a budding atheist, I am more charitable than this.
That will fade in time. Once you become a fully-fledged atheist you will no longer feel compassion or the need to be a moral person. And for a limited time only, you get a free toaster oven.
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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funkyderek
BurnTheShips:
Sounds like you atheists have a sizable moron quotient just like the rest of us.
No arguments there. Stupidity is not limited to any one group. I can understand though how the occasional self-declared Catholic (for example) can actually be an atheist, as many people simply define themselves by the religion in which they were raised, regardless of whether they believe it. But who the hell is going around telling people they're an atheist when they actually believe in a god - and even pray to one? I'm not generally in favour of rounding up people and sterilising them, but if I was, "atheists who believe in God" would be a good place to start.
To paraphrase South Park, One quarter of people are retarded.
I don't know about that, but half of people are below average - and the average is not that great.
This poll is proof that God created us equal.
No, it's proof that some people are less evolved than others.
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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funkyderek
Deputy Dog:
Wow! The wacky circular nonsense of Cornelius Van Til. Haven't seen that in a while. Not sure what your point is unless it's just to remind us that not all the stupid theists think they're atheists!
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Not too bright! 21% of atheists believe in God.
by BurnTheShips inhttp://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf.
think its weird?
scroll down to pages 9 and 11, where youll find 12% believing in heaven and 10% praying at least once a week.. bts.
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funkyderek
It appears that some theists are so stupid they don't understand what the word "atheist" means. At the very least, this anomaly strongly suggests that the results of this survey should not be taken too seriously.
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Has Golden Calf ever been found?
by cameo-d injust wondering, is there any information as to how big it was?
how did desert wanders carry around so much gold?
wouldn't it have encumbered them?
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easyreader1970:
To me, the entire story doesn't make any sense. Here you have Aaron, spokesman for Yahweh and Moses' right hand man, who caves in to pressure by the Isrealite's (who themselves have only recently been miraculously delivered up, supposedly) to make a God idol to worship.
Also striking is the speed and eagerness with which they decide to make up a new religion. As soon as their holy man is gone, they all decide to change religions and to worship something that they know they've just invented. And these are people who had actually seen bona fide miracles, rivers of blood, raining frogs, the parting of the Red Sea etc. And yet they quickly reject the god that did that. I mean, who's that stupid? I guess that's why it took them forty years to cross less than 200 miles of desert.
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Another reason the JW-style paradise won't be needed
by sir82 inhow does that kingdom malady go?
"...and the lame will leap just like the hart...?.
once again, the "wicked old world" is accomplishing what jesus, sitting invisibly on a throne and playing "world of warcraft" for going on a century, has not done:.
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funkyderek
Rosalee:
How does this compare to Jesus examples of future healings he will perform.
Verry favourably, in that this is actually real. A real-life person has received a real-life healing that actually really significantly improves the real quality of his real life. Much better than even the best pretend healings.
He certainly showed by healing the lame and restoring life to the dead on a small scale while on earth.
Right, but those are just stories, they didn't actually happen. This is real - really really real.
I think I'd rather put my faith in Scripture.
Why? What has Scripture ever done for anyone?
It's great that this man can now walk. But to compare this with the marvels of Jesus is not even on the same page.
No. One is a myth, the other is real, providing real hope to people. The real cure may not be as good on paper as the imaginary one, but it's better because it's real.
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Has Golden Calf ever been found?
by cameo-d injust wondering, is there any information as to how big it was?
how did desert wanders carry around so much gold?
wouldn't it have encumbered them?
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funkyderek
Moses invented Goldschläger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschlager
Seriously though, it's just made up, like most of the bible. That's why it doesn't make a lot of sense.