The Unreasonableness of Atheism

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_The Nehor
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Mad Viking wrote:
The Nehor wrote:
Mad Viking wrote:It isn't what others are saying about him. It IS what he is saying to them. Why does he (the Mormon god) say different things to different people? He seems to base it along the lines of where people are born or what the beliefs of their parents are. There are a few anomolies to this rule, but it holds the majority of the time. If you can talk to him directly, you should ask him about that.


Maybe he's not telling them that. Maybe they're making it up. I don't tell them this very often because they get uppity when I do.

God doesn't give me great insights into everyone else's spiritual life and I'm glad he doesn't. I wouldn't want mine broadcast that way.


You acknowledge that he could very well be telling them something else. For being sublimly confident that you have found the "right god", you seem to have little concern for whether he is being straight with you or giving you the whole story.


He might be giving them different instructions. Happens all the time. If he starts claiming he's a big spaghetti monster to them then I'm saying they are wrong.
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Tarski wrote:
One of the popular models has the universe being always topologically equivalent to a copy of R^3. In the The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model with K<=0, each spatial slice is a constant curvature space of infinite extent but with density approaching infinity at one goes back toward the time of the big bang. In these K<=0 models, it was only the observable universe that was once crammed into a dot. But there was, at any positive time, a whole R^3 full of such dots each destined to fill out a volume as large as what we can now observe. In the K>0 case, the whole universe (not just the observable universe) was a tiny dense copy of S^3.


This is why I appreciate the "dup" posts! :)
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The Nehor wrote:
Mad Viking wrote:
The Nehor wrote:
Mad Viking wrote:It isn't what others are saying about him. It IS what he is saying to them. Why does he (the Mormon god) say different things to different people? He seems to base it along the lines of where people are born or what the beliefs of their parents are. There are a few anomolies to this rule, but it holds the majority of the time. If you can talk to him directly, you should ask him about that.


Maybe he's not telling them that. Maybe they're making it up. I don't tell them this very often because they get uppity when I do.

God doesn't give me great insights into everyone else's spiritual life and I'm glad he doesn't. I wouldn't want mine broadcast that way.


You acknowledge that he could very well be telling them something else. For being sublimly confident that you have found the "right god", you seem to have little concern for whether he is being straight with you or giving you the whole story.


He might be giving them different instructions. Happens all the time. If he starts claiming he's a big spaghetti monster to them then I'm saying they are wrong.


Interesting. He gives variant messages and yet THEY are wrong. Why would you blame them, for confusion he is causing?
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Mad Viking wrote:Interesting. He gives variant messages and yet THEY are wrong. Why would you blame them, for confusion he is causing?


I meant the person is wrong, not God.
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Post by _Angus McAwesome »

I love it... Atheists are the unreasonable ones for not believing in your imaginary friend.
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A huge strike against atheists might be this:

If most atheists are good moral people (standard Christian definition of good and moral), why?

My answer would be "the light of Christ" because from the atheist pov, there is no reason not to be a hedonistic libertine.
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I don't believe in BCSpace. :)


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I don't believe in BCSpace. :)


That's fine. I don't believe in you or KA either. But do you have an answer to the question?
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bcspace wrote:
I don't believe in BCSpace. :)


That's fine. I don't believe in you or KA either. But do you have an answer to the question?



KA? Me? Is it only women you don't believe in? Hmmm.......

I'll answer!

I drive about 5 miles over the speed limit most of the time, especially on the interstate... I'm reveling in my hedonism. This is why I reject God.
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I drive about 5 miles over the speed limit most of the time, especially on the interstate


Why? What prevents you from becomming a hedonistic libertine (assuming you aren't one).
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