Rather than serve an insane, silent God that thinks killing is love, I'll take my chances.
EntirelyPossible
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Theology
by sabastious intheology is the study of religion and religions are human systems of spirituality.
it could then be said that theology is the study of the applications of human spirituality.
human spirituality is a chosen way of life.
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Theology
by sabastious intheology is the study of religion and religions are human systems of spirituality.
it could then be said that theology is the study of the applications of human spirituality.
human spirituality is a chosen way of life.
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EntirelyPossible
Let's see if God still strike people down.
Hey Jesus, you suck.
Hey God, you suck.
Hey Holy Spirit, you suck donkey balls.
Hmmm... still here. Too bad GR, looks like God's taken the afternoon off.
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Belief in God: What were the difficult aspects and questions you had.
by designs intwo main one's for me were god being capricious and serendipitous..
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Interestingly when a God is shown to be evidenced and supported by the scientific method the atheist is immediately compelled to change his fundamental viewpoint on life.
Can you give me an example when a God, any god, supreme or not, is supported by evidence and the scientific method?
This is why many self-proclaimed atheists challenge creationist arguments. There is no inherent need to convince others of atheism as it is a personal choice. So the motivation behind the rebuttals has to be, ultimately, fear of change, correct?
Not at all correct. I don't want my children or others growing up so woefully ignorant. It's not fear of change in any way. It's more of a desire for them not to be steeped in ignorance, pseudoscience and to be absolutely convinced they are right rather than seek to improve.
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Belief in God: What were the difficult aspects and questions you had.
by designs intwo main one's for me were god being capricious and serendipitous..
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About as well as a person with an arrow head hatchet would do against a person with an automatic rifle.
Poor example. That depends entirely on who is holding the rifle and the hatchet.
That's the logic I am referring to not this "we are just doing our best" ruse.
That's a statement, dude. I am asking what LOGIC you are using, not what statement of fact you are making. And it's not "we are doing our best" and it's not a ruse. Your use of loaded language is the exact opposite of using logic. What can we do but our best? That "best" that we are doing has led to constant improvements. It's a process. It takes time. No one is suggesting it doesn't or that we are done.
Bigotry cannot be fought with different bigotry.
I am not suggesting you are bigoted at all and if you read that into what I was saying then I apologize. I just think that, in order to criticize science or make claims about it, you need to understand it. I highly recommend "Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan. He brilliantly lays out how scientists MUST be skeptical of everything and insists on evidence, falsifiability and repeatability but, at the exact same time, be open to new ideas. It's a delicate line to walk and, as people, we aren't all perfect at it.
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Belief in God: What were the difficult aspects and questions you had.
by designs intwo main one's for me were god being capricious and serendipitous..
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When did I say you have to believe a hypothesis to falsify it?
Perhaps I misunderstood. Can you clarify what you meant by this?
Creating a rubuttal for a theist argument is directly entertaining the theist hypothesis and, as EntirelyPossible spoke about, "realscience" dictates that the atheist must believe in a God that can be proven using the scientific method.
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2011 District Convention "Let Us Be Bored and Confused Into Obedience"
by ranmac inthis has already been discussed but i need to vent.. i just spent the most painful weekend of my life sitting thru this years dc.
what an unbelievably pointless, soulless and demeaning spectacle the assemblies are.
the three days were a blur of monotanous droning and brainwashing.
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EntirelyPossible
I would go back and add more clarification for people like you with a nit picking agenda.
It's always nitpicking when you get caught being inconsistent, like support sex with 12 year old girls and then denying it. Oh if only we would shut up and just agree with you!
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Belief in God: What were the difficult aspects and questions you had.
by designs intwo main one's for me were god being capricious and serendipitous..
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Creating a rubuttal for a theist argument is directly entertaining the theist hypothesis and, as EntirelyPossible spoke about, "realscience" dictates that the atheist must believe in a God that can be proven using the scientific method.
*sigh*.... science. It doesn't work the way you seem to think it does. I don't have to believe in a hypothesis in order to come up with a method to falsify it. It's absurd to suggest that in order to falsify a hypothesis you must beleive in it first.
Example, my hypothesis is "EP is the most attractive man alive and every woman wants him." You don't have to believe it to figure out how to falsify it.
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Belief in God: What were the difficult aspects and questions you had.
by designs intwo main one's for me were god being capricious and serendipitous..
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It's not a fact that the universe is large?
It is the size it is. Since we don't have another universe to compare it to, we really don't have any scale to compare it to. Having said that, yes, I agree it's large. Again, absence of evidence, particularly given the scale and our lack of ability to directly observe MOST other planets, in no way equates to evidence of absence.
That's our point of reference and which when logic is truly considered we find out trhat we know jack shit about anything outside of THIS planet and IT'S people and animals.
Logic? What logic are you referring to? Scientists know there is much to learn, that's why they are still going.
If you and I come up to a door of which we could not pass through you couldn't possibly convince me that nothing lies on the other side and I couldn't possibly convince you that something specific lies on the other side. We CAN, though, contemplate what doors are typically made and used for, as well as the building it is in, which gives us a mental point of reference as to what may be behind it.
Or we could find a way inside, find a window to look it, get a tiny camera and slip it under the door, get an x-ray machine, look up the tax records on the building and see who owns it and what they do.... there are any number of things we can do other than sit idly and speculate. Without knowing something more than "here is a door" we would be doing nothing more than mentally masturbating.
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Belief in God: What were the difficult aspects and questions you had.
by designs intwo main one's for me were god being capricious and serendipitous..
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And everytime we press the magnify button and see more no life, even remotely comparable to our own, is found. However, I would never presume to conclude that we are the only form of intelligent life.
The fact that the universe is so large is evidence of GREATER intelligence, which could easily fit under many of our descriptions of "God."
*sigh*....really? You simultaneously hint at an absence of evidence as evidence of absence as well as use the the words fact and evidence to point to God?
Science...it doesn't work the way you think it does.
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Is Matthew 24 future or fulfilled?
by Vanderhoven7 ini believe the wts has completely misapplied matthew 24:1-35. .
i believe the scripture is quite clear that jesus was speaking to his own generation and not some obscure future or 1914 generation.. if you happen to be a jw and/or futurist, what makes you believe jesus was talking about events that would transpire in the 20th/21st century?.
vander.
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EntirelyPossible
I really can't trust Matthew 24 until I know who wrote it. Work on that and get back to me.