Because evidently some people are really concerned about starting threads.

Edit: Moving some more posts as the discussion is now spilling over into other threads. --Original Position

I wouldn't post here as a theist any more NotReady.

It's not an even playing field. They are deleting a lot of theist posts on this site so it's too biased on here to be worth your trouble.

Edit: I, Original Position, moved these posts here because they were not relevant to the topic of the the thread they were originally in.


Why would you want to understand atheism if you're humble enough to conceive a god may exist?

You're not thinking straight.

It's like choosing to learn poker from a bunch of donkeys.

The people that get the spiritual results in the world follow Jesus Christ and his scriptural directives.

But clearly Christians over-value disguised trips

You don't need to argue anything to be a child of God.

To be a child of God you just have to make a connection to the eternal life giving source.

God will build you up daily if you let Him and stop tearing Him down in your own mind.

His mind and his will is greater than yours and so is His love.

Someone doesn't understand what the word 'humble' means, but I suppose we've known this for quite some time.

Are you the poster child of your god?

Haha, that works on a couple of levels.

I'm humble enough to concede that I don't have all the answers. That's exactly what makes me an Atheist...

Atheism is a misnomer for "spiritual donkey".

You guys don't even get that Jesus Christ was the greatest life coach ever and that he coachs for free.

Maybe god is a superuser who peeks at your holecards and rips you off.

Seems like theists are 4bet-folding pocket cowboys against Jesus' 2-7 offsuit

Are you kidding? That guy got crucified in his first ever game and he keeps promising to show up and then never does. Not reliable.

No that's some guy that was standing behind me a few weeks ago in a live satellite tourney. I saw him go across and whisper something to this pro cash guy who said I had the whole table frustrated so I think he was trying to peek at my hole cards.

Tithing is an OT theocracy system. The New Covenant is voluntary freewill offerings.

The Law of the Tithe
http://www.dimensionsoftruth.org/oth...-of-the-tithe/

Reported. Hopefully enough is enough and you are banned.

If you're an atheist you should never want Splendour banned (for reasons she probably won't understand)

"Selective Female Infanticide as Partial Explanation for the Dearth of Women in Viking Age Scandinavia," pp. 205-221 in Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West, edited by Guy Halsall. Woodbridge, United Kingdom: Boydell Press, 1998; paperback 2002.


http://www.academia.edu/808691/_Sele...paperback_2002


Nope. No argument. Go ahead and report. There's been dozens of insults from atheists over the years for every one I might have landed and I rarely report.

Check out some of Round Guy's tripe for example.

A+

But seriously, we need Splendour here. Just put her on ignore.

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wtf does this have to do with this thread's topics? If you're not even going to try to stay remotely on topic, just stay out completely. Except you can't!

Here's something for you to chew over: the most rigorous and solid thinkers will take their opponents argument, fix any errors / improve it, so it is more than it was when it was first presented, and THEN refute it!

I'm working on a Splendour drinking game, only problem is I'm drunk off my ass everytime I play it. My limit is about 10 drinks and we take a drink every time Splendour:

1. Makes insulting generalisations about atheists
2. Complains that atheists are mean when they react poorly to 1 above
3. Awkwardly shoehorns poker terms into her posts
4. Argues and then claims she's not not (by redefining the word 'argument')
5. Labels her flaky opinions as 'common sense'
6. Otherwise arbitarily re-defines the meaning of words to suit her line of thought
7. Posts a link, usually off-topic, instead of using her own material and prefaces it with a condescending remark along the lines of 'Maybe you've never heard of Hitler...'
8. Re-directs any topic to her cranky obsession of the week, for example Emotional Attachments, the works of CS Lewis or whatever
9. Claims to be leaving the board 'soon'
10. States she is finished with a thread and then makes another post 30 seconds later

A+

I don't admire them or otherwise, but in any case they have a long long way to go before they're even close to what your god is 'allegedly' responsible for. Infanticide, genocide, patricide, fratricide, incest, rape, murder, extermination, enslavement, slaughter, war, deportation, rape and other inhuman acts, I can't even be bothered to list them all.

The question isn't 'how can one be moral without god, but how could a moral person worship god'.

Are you tame_deuces?

That post was addressed to him.

Is that your way of dodging the point my post was making?

How can you consider yourself a moral person following such an despicable god. If your god was on trial, it wouldn't matter that he/she/it was immortal, there still wouldn't be enough time to fit the crimes.

You mention infanticide, pfft, that's a warm up act for Jehovah according to Matthew.

Frankly, I don't care to debate history. I've done it in the past and I find atheists have a perverted view of history and next to no knowledge of spiritual warfare and that's not correctable in a debate.

That's only correctable through study.

The issue isn't what the Vikings did or did not do, the issue is your silly claim about "admire so much" which you made up out of thin air.

It is also fairly clear your issue here is not have any discussion about vikings or good/bad sides thereof, but that you want to fling out anger and as a means to this end you attack cherry-picked facets regarding the origins of my ethnicity.

Maybe next week you can verbally attack an African-American for being proud of his heritage, on accounts of rape's history as a weapon in tribal warfare in Africa. Or why not burn an American flag with the constitution as tinder because of the horrible treatment of the Lakota Indians.

Or maybe, just maybe... historical cultures tend to have traits we admire and traits we don't admire. Just like current cultures.

But I guess reflection was never even an option, was it?

Words are not enough. Truly.

They are.

But I'm not sure it is because the mod is partial. I think the "freedom-loving" atheists here sure do like to report posts, is all.