Answers To Atheism

[someguy14]

Gods words are eternal. It is love. Love is merciful and eternal.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Gods words are eternal. It is love. Love is merciful and eternal.

Good Polly! Tasty cracker.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Lord Emsworth]

All true believers in God are led by the Spirit of God. Only the delusional, lusting against God, view believers in God as confused. The gospel is foolishness unto those who do not believe. To those that believe in God, it is the power, salvation.

Bummer that you aren't led by "the Spirit of God".

 

[Dave Ellis]

Blah. Who is zeus, a roman fairy tale. Jesus is real. God wins. Feel free to fail again, God is God alone.

Actually, Zeus was Greek, not Roman. Jupiter was Roman.

And your Jesus isn't any more real than either of them..... But thanks for coming out.

 

[Dave Ellis]

It didn't take much for a doubter to run. I guarantee, if one truely believes in the eternal God, the Creator of all, that one will stand through every attack.

Proof presents itself, again.

Absolutely, so you accept Zeus? I'm glad to hear it.

 

[Dave Ellis]

Gods words are eternal. It is love. Love is merciful and eternal.

No they aren't.

And quite frankly, based on the quality of your replies, I am quite comfortable in totally writing off everything you have said so far.

Provide evidence, or kindly stop spamming nonsense.

 

[sandwiches]

Someguy14 has completely timecubed this thread.

 

[Elioenai26]

Someguy14 has completely timecubed this thread.

And you have been a contribution to it?

 

[Elioenai26]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do not hold to atheism because it is true , but rather because of a series of chemical reactions… … Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else.
Douglas Wilson

 

[Elioenai26]

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset. C.S. Lewis

 

[Illuminaughty]

I'm sceptical of both the system you believe in that posits God as well your theories of how things would be without one. Your claiming an aweful large amount of objective knowledge. Seems like a lot of pretense to me. Especially considering the fact that proving even one aspect of your theory would end in either infinite regresss or simply assuming that something is true without proof.

 

[Crusader05]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do not hold to atheism because it is true , but rather because of a series of chemical reactions… … Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else.
Douglas Wilson

I don't understand this conclusion that life has no meaning without a belief in god. As an atheist the world is just and real as it was when I believed. I live, I love, I work, I think and breath just like you do, just like I used to when I believed in god.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter.

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too.

Have you explained how this is any different if there is a God? Of course, you haven't. You can't.

How come God created this and not another universe, huh?
- Chance? (<-- Can't be.)
- Necessity? (<-- Can't be either.)
- Free Will? (<-- Always a popular non-answer.)
- Don't know? (<-- Popular too.)
- Maybe God just fizzed one way and not the other when at one point in atemporality It 'made' the universe "begin to exist". (<-- Maybe this is just rubbish. At least I did not come up with this begins-to-exist stuff. And neither did I come up with this fizzing stuff.)

 

[KCfromNC]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter.

False. Natural laws aren't chance or random.

 

[KCfromNC]

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision

No one claims it is, so the rest of this line of reasoning is irrelevant.

 

[Archaeopteryx]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do not hold to atheism because it is true , but rather because of a series of chemical reactions… … Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else.
Douglas Wilson

From The Tell-Tale Brain:

Humans are apes. So too we are mammals. We are vertebrates. We are pulpy, throbbing colonies of tens of trillions of cells. We are all of these things, but we are not "merely" these things. And we are, in addition, to all these things, something unique, something unprecedented, something transcendent. We are something truly new under the sun, with uncharted and perhaps limitless potential.

 

[Davian]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do not hold to atheism because it is true , but rather because of a series of chemical reactions… … Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else.
Douglas Wilson

I don't get that last sentence. Atheism is not nihilism.

 

[Eudaimonist]

I don't get that last sentence. Atheism is not nihilism.

Neither is it reductive materialism, epiphenominalism, or misuses of the word "chance".


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Ken-1122]

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter.

No intelligent beings exist as well.

If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically..........

Your argument fails because it assums humans aren't intelligent

K

 

[Ken-1122]

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents -

You are making the same mistake as before, you assume humans aren't intelligent. We are thus your argument fails.

K