> On 11/19/2012 9:27 AM, Budikka666 wrote:> On Nov 18, 11:05 pm, Besque <
Bes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yet they worship the same god; they use the same Bible as far as the
> > OT is concerned; the only difference is that they add the Koran, you
> > add the NT. Clearly you are as clueless about religion as you are
> > about objective independent evidence (more on this later), but your
> > abysmal ignorance doesn't do a thing to change the *fact* that they
> > *are* religious; they are not atheist, and they are evil, so my
> > original accusation remains intact - an accusation which you've
> > consistently failed to address.
> Who says they are atheist?
No one. The "Yet they worship the same god" should have clued you in
to that. You know, if you would actually answer a question with a
straight answer instead of running like diarrhea, we wouldn't have to
tediously spell out everything for you would we?
But here we go again with the sad little theist pedant. No one is
saying they are atheist. There's this thing called a question mark.
Looks like this: ? When you see that after a set of words, it means
it's not a statement but a question that is being asked of you.
You're expected to answer the question. You're expected to answer the
question as put, and directly, and to support your answer. Simply
stating your belief is irrelevant because every one of you theists
believes something different from every other one. Got that now?
Also, look up sarcasm. We feel it will benefit you greatly in this
exchange.
> I do not believe God micro manages human affairs,
Again that's a blind belief for which you can offer no supportive
evidence. Others who worship the same god you do believe that he does
quite literally manage the universe. How would you go about disproving
their claim and proving your own?
And are you *ever* going to give a straight (and supported) answer to
*any* question I ask you?
> No, God doesn't speak to anyone,
How do you *know*? Perhaps he simply does speak to *you* (especially
since you reject the Bible teachings or interpret them conveniently
for you). Are you saying that you yourself have godlike powers that
you can state this as a fact? Isn't that blaspemy?
But let's once again try to simplify the sewage system you're building
here and take you at your word. If he speaks to no one, then why
would you believe he *ever* spoke to anyone? Why would you believe
the Bible isn't simply made up from fairy tales and offers no evidence
of any god whatsoever? What changes and what evidence and *supported*
explanation do you have for this change?
> > I understand it only too well. Organised religion is evil. it is
> > violent. It is hypocrtiical. It is intolerant. These are facts, not
> > a matter of interpretation.
> I haven't found that to be the case. Nor do I believe you.
We don't care what you believe, remember? The facts speak for
themselves, and the facts state quite unequivocally that most of the
world is religious and most of the world is fighting at some time or
other, if not in outright wars, then in crime and violence within any
given society. The question is: why does religion not stop the
fighting if it is so powerful an influence for good?
Here's one for you: If Christianity is the only true religion, how
come there is much less crime in Muslim societies than in the USA?
How come there is much less violence in Europe, where atheism is
strongly on the rise, than there is in the USA, where religion rules?
And how come you have failed to address the problem we raised with the
OT which outright specifies cruel and unusual punishments for people
who commit "crimes". Do you try to claim the OT *doesn't* specifiy
such things? And how come you are ignoring those Biblical imperatives
to punish so-called 'wrong-doers"? if you claim you follow that
religion? If you accept tha the OT *does* proclaim medieval
punishments for these offences, then how do you square those brutal
punishments with a loving god?
> > Thanks for gainsaying yourself and finally admitting that wars are
> > about religion, exactly as I said they were.
> With Muslims that seems to be the case. I haven't disputed this point.
Yes you have disputed it, but you have also quickly fled the *fact*
that Christians have done and continue to do exactly the same things
that you accuse Muslims of
doing.
> >> But answer the question you sad little coward. Did Jesus Christ,
> > according to Bible fiction, say "turn the other cheek" or did he not?
> > YES OR NO?
> There's quite a difference between being slapped and having one's life
> threatened.
Do you think the fictional Jesus meant that statement quite
literally? Seriously? If you take the Bible quite literally, then
how come you're not out stoning homosexuals? That's what you were
told to do. Is *that* what you think a loving god wants?
> Where do you get this issue. I've never pretended Muslims are atheist.
> I know they are theist. Are you not confusing me with another person?
You really are not the sharpest knife in the box, are you? See if you
can understand this:
WE DO NOT THINK THEISTS ARE ATHEISTS. WE DO NOT THINK THAT YOU THINK
THEISTS ARE ATHEISTS. WE ARE NOT CONFUSING YOU WITH ANYONE ELSE. GO
LOOK UP SARCASM.
That clarify things for you? Did you actually go and look up what
sarcasm is so you know and we won't have to go through this again?
We hope so because you are absolutely the most tedious person we've
ever had to deal with other than Andrew-a-Blank. Even if you were
making a good case for your position (and you're failing there) you
would *still* have turned us away from it because of your tediously
pedantic behavior and your provincial lack of education. You really
are the worst witness for your religion (other than Andrew-a-Blank)
that we've ever encountered. But that works for us because it means
you wil turn more people away from your cause that we ever will.
Here let's travel to pendant place once more and spell every little
tedious detail out for you because you;re really not up to this
exchange, are you? You're clearly so lacking that you cannot have a
normal conversation. The question was sarcastic. We all know that
they are not atheists, but your argument is that religion doesn't
promote evil and violence, and now we've given you example after
example after example of religiious people perpetrating violence in
the name of religion - violence which is both sanctioned and
*specified* by that religion.
Do you now understand and accept this?
> There is a convoy of some 50 - 18 wheel trucks leaving Iraq. An Iraq
> General, one General Sada who defected, stated that Seddam Hussein
> sent his weapons of mass destruction to Syria six weeks before the
> invasion. Intelligence knew Hussein had WMDs, because he had used gas on
> his own people.
You can believe that lie all you want but it remains a lie. There
were no weapons of mass destruction, but whether there were or not is
***irrelevant*** because what is relevant here is that a Christian
leader *did* *not* *turn* *the* *other* *cheek*. He was a hypocrite.
He had no faith in his god to protect him so instead, he sent soldiers
in and those Christians did not turn the other cheek either, not a
single one of them. Instead, they slaughtered literally thousands of
Muslims, and the Muslims slaughtered literally thousands of
Chrsitians. Their religion did *nothing* to prevent the violence, and
no god appeared for either side to help or to prevent the violence.
Religion failed dismally. God was absent. Faith was absent.
[snip]
> It's just a fact that the highest percentage of crime is where there
> is a lower educational standing.
The issue here is not education, it is religion. Virtually every one
of these people believed in a god. In the USA, the overwhelming
majority of them believe in and worship the same god you do. Yet this
belief ***FAILED*** to prevent these crimes. It ***FAILED*** to make
them turn the other cheek. It ***FAILED*** to make them go the extra
mile. It ***FAILED*** to have them offer their coat. It ***FAILED to
encourage them to cross the street to help their neighbor. Religion
failed. Your god failed.
Crimes are committed all over the world under every religion at every
educational and social level. But religion pervades all of these
societies and levels, and religion failed. And in many cases,
religion excouraged these crimes.
> Did you not read the part of the Bible which> urges you to love your neighbor? I guess not. Either that or you're
> > yet another Christian who rejects Christianity, lol!
> I love my children dearly, but my youngest son continues to get
> himself in trouble with the law.
Your god failed. Your religion failed.
> He got in with the wrong crowd
> and nothing me or his mother could do or say that would change
> him.
Your god failed. Your religion failed.
> Nevertheless I still love him, and want the best for him.
Yet you seem unable to extend that love to your neighbor (particularly
black neighbors), as your god demanded you do if we believe the
mythology.
> So, my point in telling you this, is to point out a fact doesn't
> mean you harbor some deep seated bias or racist attitude: facts are facts.
The fact that you state these things does not make them facts. you
have failed to support a single thing you have said. You simply state
your belief and expect us to bow down to it and take it all on faith.
This is alt.atheism; our only faith is in objective, independent
evidence, not on some religius dogma or blind beleif or argument from
incredulity.
> As I said before I think God does not micro-manage the universe.
This is an unsupported personal belief which flies in the face of the
unsupported personal beliefs of others who worship the same god you
do.
> I think you have a mental image of all religious people and when
> one doesn't fit your paradigm he _must_ have moved the goal post.
Again, we are not presenting our personal beliefs as you are; we are
showing you that you theists are hypocrites, that you do not turn the
other cheek, that you perpetrate evil and violence. You have failed
to refute that.
> I do not believe Jesus meant for a solder to willing allow himself to
> be killed. This is paramount to committing suicide. A definite
> unforgivable sin, that no dedicated Christian can justify.
Agian, you are offering nothing but a blind belief. You cannot
support your claim. There are other soldiers in history who have
refused to fight because of their religious beliefs. They were soing
*exactly* what Jesus demanded, and they were labeled as cowards for it
by other Christians making judgments they were forbidden to make by
their god.
The Bible does not make distinctions; it simply states that thou shalt
not kill. the fictional Jesus did not lay down any conditions on his
statement; he simply told you to turn the other cheek and to love yoru
neighbor. Clearly you, and literally thousands of other so-called
Christians are rejecting those things wholesale, and you have the
hypocrisy to claim that other people "are not really Christians"?
If you can't see the blind hypocrisy in your position, you are truly
delusional.
> Do you believe that if we were to disarm and just let radical Muslims
> have their way, this is biblical. Is this what you would have the US
> do?
It has nothing to do with us. THIS IS WHAT YOUR OWN BIBLE IS TELLING
YOU AND YOU ARE REJECTING IT.
And because people like you are rejecting it, they are killing and
thereby making religion even more evil than it was to begin with.
> This is Old Testament. Christianity is a New Testament Religion.
Seriously? You're playing that card? Seriously?
Tell me, does the NT have a different god from the OT? Was your Jesus
*not* the son of the OT god? Did your fictional Jesus say that he had
come to change not "one jot or tittle of the law" or not? Go look it
up. The law is the OT. Did your fictional Jesus reject the OT or did
he refer to it frequently?
Do you think Jesus was a Christian? Honestly? He was ***NOT*** He
was (had he been real) a Judaist, and so were his disciples. So was
Paul.
> > Was that right? Was that moral? Was that the Christian thing to do?
We notice that you failed to answer this question along with many
others.
> > Ddi you not read what I have repeatedly reminded you of: about Jesus's
> > supposed dictum to TURN THE OTHER CHEEK?
> Your's is an extreme interpretation, which would very often result in
> death.
Where in the Bible are the conditions which are placed on that
instruction? Where are the exceptions? Quote me the verses.
My position is atheist. My position is not based on the whims of a
barbaric fictional god.
*YOUR* position is supposed to be following Jesus, yet you reject his
teachings and make excuses for it all the time. YOU are the
hypocrite. You are the one saying you believe one thing and then
doing another thing entirely.
> > Was Jesus just joking when he said that do you think? Was it an
> > optional part of Christianity?
> You are not A Christian, so why are you so insistent in your demanding
> that others follow your extreme interpretation of a biblical verse. Here
> again you are attempting to judge Christians by your view of a christian
> value.
Go ahead and support your repeated claim that this direct
interpretation of exactly what the Bible says is "extremist". Go
ahead and support that. Go ahead. We'll wait. Show us where the
Bible says there are exceptions to what Jesus taught, and explain to
us all, supporting your position with Bible text, what those
exceptions are and who authorized them. Go ahead. SHOW US. Let's
see who is extremist and who is simply addressing exactly what the
Bible says, as you should be if you truly are a Christian.
> >> No US solder is fighting and killing people over religious views.
> Here again you a non-christian presuming to know Christianity and
Clearly we know it better than you do. You are not a Christian. You
are like all the other "Christians" in that you outright *reject* what
your Messiah said and instead embrace what Paul supposedly said. You
are not a Christian, you are a Paulian
> insisting that Christians follow your overly strict interpretations.
So anything you reject is overly strict? Then you reject Jesus.
Thanks for admitting it. Jesus *was* strict if the NT is to be
believed. He made no compomises. He made no excuses and you and your
ilk reject him for that.
> And when one doesn't he is running away.
> No, I do not agree with your extreme interpretation.
The extremist is the one who rejects what the NT clearly states and
makes up his own religion as you are doing. If you don't accept this
then start making your case and supporting your claims instead of
blindly stating beleifs which are at odds with what the NT clearly
says, and running like a coward every time I call you on your
hypocrisy, ignorance, and blindness.
> Here again you are persisting on your extremist views of what _you_, a
> non-Christian thinks Christian were/are suppose to do.
Is what I am saying in the NT or not? If it is not, then point out
exactly where we are wrong and support your argument instead of
stating childish and blind beliefs and then running. Why are you
running if you indeed have an omnipotent god behing you?
> > Did you not read what I wrote about the burning of heretics? Was
> > that not Christians imposing their will with violence and terrorism?
> Why do you think non-catholics should defend catholic practices.
They did what the Bible said they should so. They worship the same
god you do. You need to defend why *you* are rejecting what the Bible
insists you do. Why are you such a coward?
> > Was the burning of witches not the imposition of will by violence? Go
> > ahead and cast your excuse for a mind back: was it the Muslims who
> > hung and burned hundreds, ir not thousands of innocent women as
> > witches, or was it Christians?
> Actually It wasn't. It was human inhumane ie mans inhumanity to man.
Done at the insistence of the Bible. Does your Holy Bible say you
shall not suffer a witch to live or does it not? It's a simple
quesiton. There is no extremist interpretation here. The Bible
either says that or it doesn't. Which is it?
The Bible either says you should stone homosexuals or it doesn't.
Which is it?
According to NT ficiton, Jesus either said he came to uphold these OT
laws or he didn't. Which is it?
> > Was it the Muslims who conducted the inquisition, or Christians?
> Many were Christians and many were not: in any case deliberate killing
> innocent people was not a Christian thing to do.
Yet your Bible insists that you do it and Jesus did not *ever* reject
the OT, so it is indeed a Christian thing to do.
> No, first the Big Bang, _then_ inflation, followed by expansion.
LIE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
> I agree this singularily is not evidence of God. The word "singularity"
> simply means that when scientist wound back the expansion of the
> universe they arrived at a point where everything in the universe
> (space,time,matter, laws of physics) must have emerged : A single point,
> a singularity.
Thanks for admitting that your first "evidence" was no such thing at
all. We still await your five supported objective indepdent evidences
for the existence of a creator because if you cannot support the
existence of a creator then the entire Bible is fiction.
> > But answer me this: if there was, *quite literally* nothing, then
> > what was there to prevent quite literally anything from happening?
> > The answer to that is: quite literally nothing!
> But it did.
Thnas for once again admitting that you cannot intelligently address a
point we have made.
> There must be an opposite side of the same coin, if there was nothing
> to prevent .... there must have been something that caused the universe
> to come into existence.
There is no other side: iif there was nothing, then there were
literally no laws, so literally anything could happen.
They come out of the same math which explains the universe. Unlike
the Bible, they are not fiction; they are not inventions.
> I was under the impression you wanted a serious discussion, but this
> doesn't bear this out. Why attack me, personally, instead of my arguments?
Because your "arguments" are not arguments; they are unsupported
statements of your blind belief. You're effectively telling lies and
I will not allow that.
> That's an interpretation.
No, it isn't interpretation: it's *exactly* what the Bible states.
Six 24 hour days, each of which had an *evening* and a *morning*.
These were not "epochs"; they were not "1,000 years"; they were not
"unspecified time periods". They were literal 24 hour days and some
40% of the US adult population including some (so-called) scientists
and religious leaders accept this as true.
If you choose to dispute the creation story, then *YOU* are
interpreting what was written, not us. You are making up fairy tales
to try and overcome the fact that the creation story was written by
scientifically ignorant people who clearly did not have any god
guiding them - unless that god was the most stupid god ever. And if
the Bible writers could be so far wrong with the creation and the
Noahic flood, then they could quite easily have been just as far wrong
on anything else.
> I'm not so literal as this. I don't accept
Since you reject what Jesus clearly stated (if we believe NT fiction)
then it's no surprise that you make up your own stories about the OT.
You, like so many other so-called Christians, are making up your own
religion because you., like us, do not like and do not accept the
religion as it is dictated by the Bible. Rest assured that you are
most certainly *not* adhering to Bible teachings, nor to the teachigns
presented as those of Jesus in the NT.
> a six day creation, nor do I accept 24 hour days, the Noachin flood,
> parting of the Red Sea, walking on water, turning four fishes into
> hundreds. In fact I reject the Old Testament entirely. It's made
> obsolete, for the Christian, by the New Covenant.
So you admit that the OT is full of lies? The same OT that your Jesus
said he came to uphold? Have you forgotten that your Jesus believed
the Noahic flood story?
> But I do understand, you are demanding scientific evidence independent
> of any findings by scientist.
Wrong. I accept *only* supported evidence.
> I offered evidence which was presented by
No, you offered an argument from incredulity which does not address
all the facts.
> Dr. Laura Danly where she gave the statistical probability of the
> expansion of universe with the precise value required in order to be
> successful: IE 1 chance in 4 quintilion
Statistics have nothing to do with it. Statistics are nothing but an
argument from incredulity as made by the young-Earth creationists.
You have failed to even accept that this may not be the only
universe. instead, you are, without a shred of scientific support,
claiming that this *is* the only universe and that it is so unlikely
(again without a shred of scientific support) that our ignorance of
how it arose is not ignorance but proof of a creator god.
How, exactly, does ignorance translate into proof?
> All you have done is engage in character assassination and personal
> insults _rather_ than deal with my arguments which are based upon
> scientific evidence.
Where have you made *any* supported argument? You have done nothing
but state your blind religious beliefs and offered argument from
incredulity. I have no respect for that.
> This is merely a supposition without a shred of scientific evidence
> supporting it
LIE. it comes directly out of the math which underlies this universe.
> Even if it exist, there's no way to observe them,
> detect them, determine anything about them. It's like looking to
> Mickey mouse, for explanations for mysteries in the real world.
Even if that's true (and it isn't), then we're in *exactly* the same
position as you are with your god. Yet you believe that unsupported
god and reject the supported science.
> This is truism, but a very unsatisfactory one at that. The universe
> _is_ a reality. The scenario given by Brandon Carter, exemplifies this.
> You stand before a line of 100 rifle marksmen all pointing their guns at
> you, you hear the gun fire, but you don't die. If you had died you would
> not be here to ask what happened. But that answers nothing.
Poor example that it is, it still overturns your unsupported
objection.
> Well, that's your opinion and you are welcome to it! To me, 1 chance in
> 1 quintilion implies something other than unguided, random chance was
> involved.
> And this is only one of four fundamental cosmological Constants which
> are extremely precise mathematical values.
Again, an unsupported argument from incredulity - a blind belief.
> Here again, God does not micro-manage the universe.
Again, an unsupported argument from incredulity - a blind belief with
which others who worship your god disagree.
> What do you call the Big Bang and the fine tuned expansion constants?
> These make the point that something other than random chance had to be
> involved.
No, they do not. Again, an unsupported argument from incredulity - a
blind belief.
> I presented facts, you are arguing from incredulity.
You are clearly deluded.
Budikka