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January 23rd, 2012, 7:00 pm
First of all, I want to make perfectly clear that I hate mysticism with every last bone in my entire body. It is the lowest form of philosophy. Believing feelings as evidence for anything is useless. Secondly, there are only a few feelings, pretty much none of which are "from God". Thirdly...
January 23rd, 2012, 1:01 am
When debating theology (or anything for that matter), whether between Christians (like myself), or between different religions/philosophies, personal experience is worthless unless it is substantiated. And the only ways to substantiate personal experience is for one or more of the following to be do...
January 15th, 2012, 6:17 pm
Wisdom is not the subjective side. Wisdom is the science of applying ethical rules to certain situations. And you should never let your feelings guide your decisions. How you feel about something is determined by what you believe about something. And what you believe on something is either ideas tha...
January 7th, 2012, 2:12 am
First things first, credit where credit is do. Much of the contents of this (and probably further posts), are modified from Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. I disagree with Thomas Aquinas' final end idea (thinking the more rational idea "knowing about God", to be more Christian and less mysti...
January 6th, 2012, 4:38 pm
When we say something is good, we normally mean it is good at what it does. A good blacksmith is good at blacksmithing. A good scientist is good at science. An object may have properties that we regard as bad, but they do not take anything away from the goodness of the object as itself. A good docto...
December 6th, 2011, 8:43 pm
JIDDY20. This is the reason many people think religion is irrational. In order. Jiddy, love doesn't prove anything. Ever. At all. I might love a big mac right now, but that doesn't mean I'll get one. I might love to live forever. That doesn't mean I will (or won't, for that matter). What we think ab...
November 28th, 2011, 1:12 am
First of all, thank you for not just saying "your just pretending to use reason to back up your beliefs", or "all fundamentalists are crazy" or assigning me a stereotype or something. And I did not mean to say whether Christians could lie or not (they can and do, I meant the Chri...
November 27th, 2011, 8:30 pm
Thinking Critically, my argument was that a Christian had no reason to fear death, since their beliefs regard death as a insignificant event. My argument wasn't "Atheists should fear death" or "Atheist should believe in the World to Come", my idea was, If a person is a Christian,...
November 26th, 2011, 4:53 pm
I'd say it it quite possible to prove something doesn't exist. Simply prove that its existence is logically impossible. I'd also say you could quite easily prove whether a god exists. Simply define the God, make sure its logically consistent with itself, and then see if it exists by way of deductive...
November 26th, 2011, 4:51 pm
I fail to see why God cannot be a transcendent super being, and a Father, Judge, and King.
It seems to me Dawkins strikes a straw-man, attacking Yahweh as a kind of zeus, instead of as the being the Bible potrays.
It seems to me Dawkins strikes a straw-man, attacking Yahweh as a kind of zeus, instead of as the being the Bible potrays.
November 26th, 2011, 4:47 pm
On the contrary, the major ones are provable by way of deductive reasoning. No statement in said book has been disproven. Many claims, all of which refuted. The bible has in itself no contradictions. Many claimed, all of which either ignore context or are easily disproven. As to slavery, the "s...
November 25th, 2011, 11:38 pm
That depends entirely on what is mean by fundamentalism. If fundamentalism merely means, I believe what my religion teaches is literally true, then fundamentalism is only irrational if the claims of the religion (any of them) are irrational. For example, supposing I took a Bible and dissected it. Th...
November 25th, 2011, 7:19 pm
Good is not just intent.
If intent is all that matters, then many who are evil would be good. Hitler tried to create a near utopian empire. Yet his actions were evil, though he intended good.
If intent is all that matters, then many who are evil would be good. Hitler tried to create a near utopian empire. Yet his actions were evil, though he intended good.
November 25th, 2011, 6:59 pm
Zoroastrianism is illogical. Logical argument below 1.According to Zoroastrianism, there are two gods, one completely good, and one completely evil. 2.Existence is good. 3.Therefore, in order to be completely evil, the evil god would have to not exist, disproving Zoroastrianism. You could state that...
November 25th, 2011, 6:44 pm
True, it is a statement. But one I am declaring is true. It was not intended as an insult. I knew when I was writing it that a circle was an imperfect analogy. I meant this. "Does a being completely outside of linear time require a creator or not?" And to answer your last question. Deducti...
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