My Problems with New Atheism

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  1. doombug

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    Humans fatten up animals just to murder them to have a nice meal.....
     
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    BLM opposes killing policemen.
     
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    Generally the media and Hollywood are general promoters of your "village".
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They promote it.Fry 'em like bacon!
     
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    I give workshops in prejudice and I must say this is one of the most prejudicial things I have seen. You are saying that people who are politically on the left for some reason want to replace traditional families. That is a totally bigoted statement.
    What is the LBGTQ lifestyle that you speak of ? Are they the ones sexually assaulting millions of women?
    You don’t even know what Marxism is and you throw it around just to get yourself all scared..I will call you a fascist from now on so we can both have scary words for each other.
    The fact that you don’t believe that a woman who is an abusive marriage with a man who beats her should be able to get divorced. What could be better than for. children to witness this. You want women who stayed at home to just suffer all kinds of indignities like an alcoholic husband etc. because it is better than divorce.And by the way we aren’t raising a generation of unstable children and broken homes. It is just bigotry
    I also suggest that you look up the 10 top states with the highest divorce rates and you will find they are red states and the most religious.
     
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    They’re not as good as the fine neo-nazis
     
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    What is almost comical is that you spew all this hatred for atheists and for people on the left etc. and yet you hold yourself morally superior… You’re not!!
     
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    That's your choice. Others see enough evidence to decide Jesus was resurrected. It doesn't have to be scientific proof but can be a preponderance of the truth. If you think there would ever be scientific proof then you've set conditions to render only one decision.
     
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    And I trust in unicorns… At least they’re pretty to look at and they fly and they won’t send me to hell
     
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    I agree with everything you said except about LBGTQ lifestyle. How is their lifestyle different than mine and yours?
     
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    What an absurd statement to make. What god of any religion intervenes in the natural order. Do we not all die? If you take your emotional reasoning out to its logical conclusion what you're arguing for is heaven on earth now. No suffering and I'd say no death. If you're an atheist then you are arguing from a theist stance of one who doesn't like God's behavior.
     
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    Yet, he holds us mere humans to his standards, while we are clearly too inept to understand it. Just another red flag that you dismiss due to your zombie indoctrination.
     
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    Yet, this loving god of yours finds car keys and blesses football players make touchdowns. What about all those Christians praying over food and getting cancer? Can’t have it both ways.
     
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    Nah, if that was the case there would be no need for forgiveness. You really need to get it straight.
     
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    You should be, too.

    Finally, Hollywood got something right - if they're doing that.

    Having more neighborly neighborhoods, more local awareness and mutually supportive friendships - you can't possibly be opposed to that.
     
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    Yes - that's why I don't promote that. First of all, it's not a "lifestyle", as I'm sure you agree.

    I promote the idea that we're all equals as humans and if anything, we need to be more mutually supportive.
     
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    No, that is not something the BLM organization promotes.
     
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    Then as I say ..god is not omnipotent. Yes people die but a little children have to die because God won’t use his power to make some rain so they don’t die of starvation.? You give God all the credit but none of the blame.
    It’s not that I don’t like God’s behavior or that I do like God’s behavior, I just don’t believe there is a God. If I believe in unicorns and we had the same discussion I will just tell you that it’s your stance that you don’t believe in unicorns
     
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    I have to repeat… He’s the opposite of Obama. God gets all the credit and none of the blame and Obama got all the blame and none of the credit
     
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    Please explain the difference between preponderance of proof and scientific proof.
     
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    I gave no credit to anyone including a god you say doesn't exist but just in case He does then He doesn't use His powers to help. Some of you say He uses His powers to destroy. You guys can't, collectively, make your minds up.

    Here's your comments in this one post which I bolded:

    Then as I say ..god is not omnipotent. Her you say there is a god.

    I just don’t believe there is a God. Now you say there isn't a god.
     
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    In a jury trial of a civil matter then 51-49 makes for a preponderance of facts or truth if you prefer. This is a subjective but qualitative matter using a supercomputer (the human brain) to arrive at conclusions. Not always accurate but much much better than flipping a coin.

    A scientific proof might be a mathematical one which has a very high probability of being correct. It might be a proof from repeated observations in a science experiment which has a high probability. It may even be the total sum of probabilities from data collecting say at CERN using millions of observations. There as the probability approaches 1 then we conclude the observations are a proof. There are.no guarantees any of them won't change over time just as say the mass of proton has.

    In the world of science many now accept the fact our theories and our interpretations of data can be wrong. We speak more in probabilities now

    Accepting the Resurrection would be a preponderance of data in my mind not facts or truths. In the end Jesus was or wasn't resurrected. It's either 0 or 1. If he was then he was who he said he was. If not then there can be no Christianity although there can still be a God.
     
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    Would you care to clarify this? I don't think you are meaning to say that belief proves existence, or previous existence.
     
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    Yes I know what Marxism is and I know their position on family....look it up.

    "The fact that you don’t believe that a woman who is an abusive marriage with a man who beats her should be able to get divorced" You said this about me and I expect a retraction. My wife and I facillitated Divorce Care for 8 years. We saw marriages saved. We saw some dissolved. We supported divorce and the divorcee when physical abuse or abandonement was an issue. Yours is a liberal knee jerk assumption because you know nothing about the Word of God. Children raised in broken homes today are more the rule than the exception. Sure, some states have high divorce rates while others don't bother to even marry. They just conceive children and go about their pleasure. It is a sad state of affairs in America and it would make Karl Marx smile.

    You can call me fascist or what ever. How 'bout unredeemable Deplorable? Hillary has called me that. In other words she personally consigns me to hell which no understanding Christian would do to anybody.
     
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