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What a load of nonsense. I didn't make it up. If you were paying any attention, you would've noticed that I said I'd got it from Google dictionary, an...

No, that's an erroneous inference on your part. I already quoted the definition of theism I'm adhering to. I've mentioned scripture because it's of ob...

Empty charges without explanation. You clearly don't know what you're talking when it comes to fallacies. I've neither changed the subject nor equivoc...

You haven't fully answered my response to your criticism. Again, you must explain how it makes any sense for a theist to believe that scriptures are e...

So what's the exception that I'm wrongfully excluding? Explain yourself properly if you're going to accuse me of committing the fallacy.

Bullshit. I'm just talking about what theists believe. The answers you'd get if you went out into the real world and spoke to theist after theist. Do ...

So then you should agree with the point that I was making, namely that there are at least some key beliefs which must be taken literally. And these be...

Not the same thing at all. He, apparently, was trying to exclude any religion which makes factual claims, whereas I'm saying that the term "theism" do...

Oh really? Thanks for pointing that out. :roll: But people make religions, and they make them with commitments which can be expressed through language...

And the answer is still a resounding no, unless they scrap their most fundamental tenets.

Yes, and I learned that distinction many years ago. It is, however, a distinction of no relevance to the point I've been making. You're the one who is...

Yes, there are areas of scripture that can be taken as metaphorical, such as the length of time the earth has been here. But you can't take everything...

But the point you accuse him of missing is a red herring. His point (and it is a salient one) is that there are claims of religion which are contradic...

Ah. But I'm almost outside your house. It would seem such as waste to turn back now.

If you're one of those "It's all a metaphor" theists, then a) you're not really a theist in any meaningful sense, and b) you're not who I was referrin...

Okay. Well, thanks for letting me know that. On the bright side, at least there aren't any laws against murdering ponds.

You seem to be committing the No True Scotsman fallacy. I've just brought to your attention the fact that the biggest organised religions do make fact...

"I don't know" he says. We've just named things that can be done. Things within his power. And there's plenty of available reading material on this.

Except that they do, so your comment is meaningless. The biggest organised religions make factual claims - factual claims which aren't supported by sc...

Not bad. It's only taken you two hours to come up with.

You've merely repeated (surprise, surprise) your heavily criticised prior position, from a prior discussion, which logically implies a form of idealis...

It really is an astonishing claim to make. Obama had his faults, but he wanted to work with Iran and the international community to resolve the issue ...

Someone's missing the point. It's not about "stopping" global warming. It never was. It's about acting to alleviate as opposed to indifference or exac...

And Confucius said - nothing, you idiots! Confucius is dead, he's locked in my basement. (Ha ha). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eJO5HU_7_1w

That's what's called a non sequitur.

:roll:

As Winston Churchill once famously said, "Shut up, Meg".

Rejoin the Paris climate agreement.

Bingo.

Whereas I was deliberately and maliciously trying to counter Baden's attempt at reassurance by attempting to inspire in you a sense of hopelessness an...

You're all the same to me.

Yeah, since you lot decided to kill it. R.I.P. Shoutbox. Now all you've got on the home page is crappy philosophy. And who in their right mind would w...

Cute and nice. I used to be mean, whereas now... oh, shut the fuck up.

Oh, come on, surely you know how it works by now. The mods are always right, even when they're wrong. So pipe down and stop being a nuisance, Pondy Mc...

Yeah, good film. And she kicks ass, too. Oh no. He was good in the videogame Observer also.

Your call for evidence is selective. You "double-yawned" when I pointed out that you were applauding a racist, in spite of all the evidence of his rac...

No theistic religion is compatible with science. And by compatible, I mean fully compatible. So sure, you can do science whilst being religious, but t...

I wouldn't become a soldier, full stop.

Fighting for what you believe in doesn't deserve respect at all without qualification. It entirely depends what you believe in, and even then, you sho...

So a soldier goes to war, and he guns down some women and children, and rapes some of the women, but he's a soldier after all, so he's entitled to res...

:rofl:

They're fully responsible for their own actions, including going to war and following orders. No, certainly not.

Proud to be a member of the anti-Trump tribe.

They didn't put him in charge, he put himself in charge.

Because you're always talking about yourself, and your feelings, and your state of mind, and your worries, and your insecurities. Good for you. Go ahe...

And philosophy forums. Stay away from them most of all.

Insecurity and self-obsession.

That's not true. He's a democratic socialist, and he has pledged to nationalise the railways and end the energy consumer rip off. He has said nothing ...

That would be a subset of philosophy known as bad philosophy.

Because you clearly are. :lol: