And you aren't being very clear with us about your notion of God. You've taken the liberty of assigning a God to "Aggressive Atheists", without saying...
That doesn't necessarily make it good. Is the religion of the cave prisoners, the primary meaning of which stems from shadows on the cave wall, good? ...
As opposed to what? If you're going to be like that, then how about you put forward your understanding of God, and I'll tell you what's wrong with it,...
Can you provide similar evidence for the existence of God as can be provided for the existence of Alaska? Yes or no? If no, then drop the false analog...
Yes, truth can be hard to take in, hence the function of religion to placate those who can't cope with the world as it is. It didn't go far enough, an...
I'm going to go with, "No", given that he is more unpopular than each of the last twelve presidents, stemming all the way back to 1945. And, as a writ...
In my assessment, some religions are better than others, just as some forms of atheism are better than others, and misplaced certainty is a factor-aga...
Please explain how you think it logically follows from your above quoted premise that it is not a matter of fact that God is or God is not. I didn't s...
And the same can be said for some political ideologues. (Nuclear weapons, cough cough). But it is a requirement of some religions according to the tes...
Do you know how many chances there are? There's also a chance that I'm actually the Son of Zeus and Liza Minnelli, and the purpose of My Sarcasm is th...
No. It might be right to say that, in some ways, I'm militantly against certain aspects of religion and certain interpretations of religion, in genera...
It's alright. I understand why you're lashing out at me. Go ahead and call me names if it makes you feel better, but that won't improve your weak argu...
Not the best example, given that he was a more of a scholastic than a fideist, but even scholasticism is restrained by dogma and tradition, which can ...
The threat is about to happen? What does that even mean? Trump's about to do the modern equivalent of beating his chest? Yes, that's somewhat concerni...
Well, yes, I agree with you to some extent. There's certainly no shortage of people with a rich fantasy life within philosophy, and yes, there are mor...
I'm not required to defend a claim I haven't made, and I haven't made the claim that reason contradicts all religion or all of whatever various meanin...
I think that far too many religious people fail to recognise where the real value in religion lies, and fail to treat it as it ought to be treated. It...
Nice try at muddying the waters, but I can see through what you're doing. Is poker a game of luck? In a similar vein to your rhetoric, one could make ...
Fall on deaf ears? No, on the contrary, you're preaching to the choir. I accept that such things do not require evidence, generally speaking, and cert...
There's a gun pointed to your head and nuclear war could break out any second now and we're in a driverless bus going down a steep hill and we're all ...
Yes, because they'll inevitably fail. It would be a wild goose chase. And "faith" is the key word there. My initial comment which drew your reply ment...
No, for the very reason that he was a devout Roman Catholic, he obviously could not have proportioned his belief to the evidence, and must therefore b...
Of course, and that's representative of the distinction I made between sensible types and fantasists. Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of fantasy - Lo...
You're far too overconfident in your own abilities, given your propensity to deny in the strongest possible terms this, that and the other. Anyway, yo...
The second premise is false. People routinely get into disputes over a wealth of issues, and these can remain in dispute for lengthy periods of time, ...
Then, for the last time, and without further delay, please practice what you preach and present a revision of your original post - see here - with arg...
My motive should not be of any relevance. And yes, I'm aware of your low opinion of me. You've made that quite clear. But please do try to play the ba...
If you're not willing to follow through, then don't waste my time in the first place. Otherwise you're basically just trolling. I don't want to have a...
Then stop prevaricating and go ahead. I've already responded with argumentative points and questions for you to answer. Your response was to handwave,...
So, really, to be clear, what you're talking about is only the potential consequences, not the actual situation we're in. That is, if there's a nuclea...
Mr. Ossipoff, please do yourself a favour and quit the propaganda-speak of "True-Believing Science-Worshippers". I'm not trying to apply reason, scien...
Well, you didn't say "I". You said "we". ("we are discussing a concept in traditional philosophy and not the subject of personal devotion"). On what g...
Not really. If you were just referring to the title, then you should have made that clear, and if you had have done so, then I probably wouldn't have ...
If reason is the path to faith, then why, pray tell, don't we all have faith in a magical sky daddy? Why hasn't faith taken over for all of us? I'll t...
Do you two actually know what the word "imminent" means? For your information, it means "about to happen". For example, "they were in imminent danger ...
Yeah, but good luck trying to convince Jake of that. He sees it that way, so everyone else simply must see it that way. Evangelism in a nutshell, whic...
Hmm. If that's your take, then I don't think you're best suited for discussion of an intellectual nature. Have you tried knitting? Maybe you'd be a na...
What makes you think that you can rule out 'God' as the subject of personal devotion from the discussion topic? Just because you take a different appr...
What "disparaging" terms are you referring to? Yeah it is. Why do you think otherwise? It is a reasonable belief that God is or is not, as per the thr...
Yes, of course, so long as nothing about the concept makes it impossible. It's either possible and in the same category as the flying spaghetti monste...
Why does a bear shit in the woods? I.e. it's obviously natural and to be expected. People will develop morals irrespective of theism. It's a people th...
Don't take my criticism out of context and straw man it! If you look at the comment just before that one, it should be clear that I only made that cri...
There's nothing wrong with treating good ideas with due consideration and savaging bad ones, so your call for passivity and restraint should be reject...
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