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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.7 |
Oh, you convinced me, it's fiction.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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ringo Member (Idle past 667 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Faith writes:
Of course you can call it fiction. A definition doesn't make something real. We have definitions of leprechauns, unicorns, etc., all of which you call fiction. But that's a definition of God, the uncreated, the uncaused cause. Or as scripture puts it, I AM that I AM. You can't just call it fiction, that's absurd.All that are in Hell, choose it. -- CS Lewis That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1699 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
But there's confusion about what God is, expressed at EvC very recently, so if we can't even give the traditional definition of God that will never get straightened out.
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ringo Member (Idle past 667 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Faith writes:
Whether your definition of God is "traditional" or not has no bearing on whether or not he's fiction. But there's confusion about what God is, expressed at EvC very recently, so if we can't even give the traditional definition of God that will never get straightened out.All that are in Hell, choose it. -- CS Lewis That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1699 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
What it has bearing on is the abusive attitude toward tradition, but I guess EvC is beyond caring about such things.
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ringo Member (Idle past 667 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Faith writes:
It isn't an "abusive" attitude. It's a realistic attitude. Traditions can be fiction. In fact, people like you who insist on the literal truth of your traditions often miss out on the real value of those traditions. What it has bearing on is the abusive attitude toward tradition....All that are in Hell, choose it. -- CS Lewis That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1699 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
It's an abusive attitude, aimed against an ancient tradition that used to be treated with respect even by Krazy atheists. No longer.
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ringo Member (Idle past 667 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Faith writes:
You're the one who disrespects tradition by treating obvious fiction (hint: talking snake) as if it was yesterday's newspaper. Instead of learning something from it, you use it to line bird cages. It's an abusive attitude, aimed against an ancient tradition that used to be treated with respect....All that are in Hell, choose it. -- CS Lewis That's just egregiously stupid. -- ringo
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Taq Member Posts: 10299 Joined: Member Rating: 7.1 |
Faith writes: It's an abusive attitude, aimed against an ancient tradition that used to be treated with respect even by Krazy atheists. No longer. Respect is earned, not simply given because something has existed for a certain amount of time. Segregation was a tradition in the South, but that didn't make it worth respecting. "We've always done it this way" is not a valid argument for something being respectable or true.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1699 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Yeah well apparently it was considered to have been earned for two thousand years but today's barbarians have changed their mind. So what else is new. You do a fine job of defending the barbarians. Good for you.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.7
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Calling it fiction is not abusive. Now if I had said it is a bunch of fucking bullshit and anyone who believes it should be locked up, that would be abusive, but I didn't say that. I said it's fiction.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1699 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
You're absolutely correct.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.7
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It's an abusive attitude, aimed against an ancient tradition that used to be treated with respect even by Krazy atheists. No longer. The "no longer" is because you can't burn us at the stake anymore.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1699 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
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jar Member (Idle past 94 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
All God(s) and god(s) are created by humans.
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