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Re: what is there to "Discuss"....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, December 29 2011, 19:19:51 (UTC)
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Arrow wrote:
>> are you strictly a reactionary? Have you nothing of your own to contribute?
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>- My own? I'm the one who started the topic. What do you mean my own?

...if you call "started the topic" quoting Aquinas and telling me to read this and that...okay. I meant something else.
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>> because I stop a topic you go running?
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>- If you stopped it means I ran away?! Weird! Run away from what? From your tenable, jaw-dropping rebuttals?

...what did you drop?
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>> atheism isn't a religion
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>- What is it then?

...I don't know. I only know what I know...I know that anyone believing in Thor hasn't a leg to stand on....why would I be anti-Thor? I just wouldn't bother.

...this all started when you said all religions are alike...and I said Christianity is the worst and very unlike the rest...since then you've avoided comment....and instead brought up every dodge you could think of.
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>> they aren't in the same league.
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>- They are opposites. Belief versus non-belief.

...atheism is what it is. I don't have "non-belief"....to have none-belief is to dance around Belief. I don;t have non-belief in the proposition that the earth is flat, or that pigs fly on Mars..or that Thor exists...there is no "non" there...there is simply nothing.
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>> I'm not an atheist
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>- What are you then?
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>> you said, long ago, that all religions are basically alike
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>- I never said so. If I did, then prove it with a quotation. You just want to change the topic.

...you did. I don;t need to prove it....I'll just ask you again, Are all religions alike and, how does Christianity differ from the rest? Feel better?
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>>There is nothing to talk about between one who believes in gods and one who does not believe in the one who believes in gods.
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>- We agreed to talk about religion regardless whether or not God exists.

...right. So, let's talk about what people DO who believe in gods...let's stop talking about gods...I say Christians do the worst things in their belief in gods...any comment?


In your own words, you said let's put “the existence of gods aside in favor of discussing the effect of religious belief and practices when people BELIEVE there is a god”.

...so go ahead....what has been the effect of belief in gods among Christians...what have they DONE as a result of their beliefs?



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