But you aren't skeptical of god. No offense, but you're accepting one set of beliefs that falls within those guidelines and dismissing another....
Hello, atheist here. Here's my take. You are claiming that there is a being. You think this being exists, but you can't see, hear, touch,...
Focus also has this pretty cool song called "Hocus Pocus"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U But yes, sir, I totally agree. I was...
Here's my take on predestination: If one were to completely understand all the forces in the universe and were able to process the information...
I would be interested to see your sources, and to hear what you think is suspect about this study. What journals did you look at? How did you...
Nope. What does that do for you? Necessary for something "miraculous" to happen. If there's a grease stain that looks like the virgin mary,...
This isn't one article in a paper. It is a large-scale, long-term, peer-reviewed study in a scientific journal. You would think that on that...
1. I have not seen it. Really, you can make evidence of any kind point to god if you try hard enough. But I don't think that is very...
How much of my post did you read? In the study done on the power of prayer, it was shown that prayer was ineffective in a healing situation....
Ok, but all you are doing is changing the definition of truth. They are two different concepts, and I really think it devalues both of them to...
What you are missing, moonbeam, is the difference between belief and knowledge, truth and hypothesis, etc. There is no YOUR truth. What is true...
Do you believe truth can be subjective? I do not, and am very reluctant to say that I KNOW much of anything. Everything is a belief of one kind...
That's not hard to understand, but that conflicts with this: First, your heart is a muscle, and doesn't know anything. I think what you mean...
So atheists can't know but you can know? I don't think it works like that. Faith is only what you want it to be. You want there to be a god and...
(1) respect/objectivity: Do atheists and religious folks respect each other's point of view, or are they rude, aggressive and dismissive toward...
To be fair, did she say you were an idiot or something like that? Did she attack your person or your beliefs? If all she said was Jesus doesn't...
I believe quite the opposite. Human beings, left to their own devices, will be very violent creatures. See: Entirety of human history. Most of...
I've been trying to find the lyrics to Riding the Region since about the first time I heard it, and I can't find them anywhere! Does anyone else...
Apologies, my posts have been more with the OP in mind than you. My point to you was that there is a good deal of violence in the bible. You...
As Socrates said in Plato's Republic, the man who is good at being unjust will have the appearance of a just man.
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