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Thu Mar-24-11 04:35 PM
Response to Reply #29 |
| 30. That's one helluva tangeant. It has nothing to do with my comments. |
| -Why I don't believe in god (A respectful conversation on the many holes of modern religion) |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:33 AM |
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It seems your problem is with the Bible, not God. |
Buzz Clik |
Mar-24-11 11:35 AM |
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It's the Bible I like, but taking it seriously to me is like taking any folk tale seriously |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:37 AM |
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True. |
Buzz Clik |
Mar-24-11 11:40 AM |
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But the religious stop at the metaphor including god. |
Goblinmonger |
Mar-24-11 02:42 PM |
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OK, which bits of the metaphor do you accept? |
intaglio |
Mar-24-11 02:59 PM |
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That's one helluva tangeant. It has nothing to do with my comments. |
Buzz Clik |
Mar-24-11 04:35 PM |
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Yes it does. You specified that |
intaglio |
Mar-24-11 07:39 PM |
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You might like Ernst Bloch's "Atheism in Christianity." Bloch was 20th century |
struggle4progress |
Mar-24-11 05:35 PM |
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Bible/God same difference |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:39 AM |
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You could actually argue that 9/11 wasn't about religion at all. |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:43 AM |
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"The Koran is a book of love and peace" WTF???? |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:45 AM |
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There are good and bad elements, just like the Bible. |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:50 AM |
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They're both books that celebrate genocide, antisemitism, racism, murder, torture... |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:54 AM |
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I'm sure if you looked at the culture in which these books were written, |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:56 AM |
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Yep. We're in agreement |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:57 AM |
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did you read those, or just cut n paste? |
RaleighNCDUer |
Mar-24-11 01:06 PM |
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I borrowed it from the Skeptic's Annotated Quran |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 01:54 PM |
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A lot of highly intelligent, Christian people do not believe that the Bible was written by God. |
Buzz Clik |
Mar-24-11 11:43 AM |
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Before 9/11, I was on the fence about God |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:52 AM |
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The bible was written by men |
speltwon |
Mar-24-11 01:05 PM |
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The Bible shows God indeed as a male |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:36 AM |
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That is our modern Bible, however. |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:57 AM |
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It's a book of stories, with no truth to any of them |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:59 AM |
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The response to most all of your points is the same. |
trotsky |
Mar-24-11 11:42 AM |
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That is an excellent point |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 11:46 AM |
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Yep |
Taverner |
Mar-24-11 11:56 AM |
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I've always wondered, if what's in the Bible were really true, why |
Booster |
Mar-24-11 11:59 AM |
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Exactly. I should have also added to my OP that the Bible isn't the first book of its kind. |
Dash87 |
Mar-24-11 12:02 PM |
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I'm glad that you have expressed interest in the Book of Mormon. |
dimbear |
Mar-24-11 08:49 PM |
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I'm just going to try to cover a few of your points. |
Kurmudgeon |
Mar-24-11 12:04 PM |
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The bible can be inerrant only if the people who have been re-writing |
RaleighNCDUer |
Mar-24-11 01:24 PM |
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I'm not a Christian but I agree with most of what you said completely. |
Rabblevox |
Mar-24-11 01:40 PM |
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I disagree with what you say about the Ten Commandments |
MikeH |
Mar-24-11 11:55 PM |
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God is irrelevant. |
CrispyQ |
Mar-24-11 02:11 PM |
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If there is a god, she sure doesn't like people very much. n/t |
Scuba |
Mar-24-11 02:55 PM |
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Religion is a flawed connection to the absolute -- of course there are holes. |
Festivito |
Mar-24-11 09:14 PM |
#34 |
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