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Recent content by EGoldstein

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    Religious war

    God didn't create anything, he is the creation of man.
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    Religious war

    This is incomprehensible to me. How is it that belief without any evidence to support the belief is seen as a virtue? It is basically saying naivety is a virtue, that gullibility a virtue.
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    Problem with my Mother.

    I told my parents I was an Atheist two weeks ago. In my case it really sucked at first but after a couple of days they got used to the idea and everything is basically how it was except I can sleep in on Sundays with out them interrogating me :) Just give it time.
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    Religious war

    So you are telling me a child born in North America in the year 1000 CE had as much chance as knowing the christian god as a child born in Italy at the same time? This is absurd. The universe does not attest to there being a god, the universe looks exactly as you would expect it to look if...
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    Religious war

    ] But why shouldn't we be able to, if faith is such a virtue why did god bother to give us the ability to think logically. To quote Dawkins "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the...
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    Religious war

    God revealing himself to everyone would not have any effect on anyone's freewill. He would not make anyone worship him, just let them know he was there. I for one would rather burn in fire for eternity than to give even one moments praise to just a Hitlerian monster as the god of Abraham...
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    Its really hard sometimes.

    Stop beating yourself up because ::SPOILER ALERT:: there is no god. Keep in mind that the god you are trying to follow has killed little kids numerous times (the flood, the story of Jericho, the Israelites attacking the Midianites, and many more) and has even accepted human sacrifices (look up...
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    Why doesn't God forgive people in hell?

    But since God created everything would it not mean that there is no place devoid of God's creation. By the definition of Hell being a place that has nothing to do with God, Hell cannot possibly exist. Since God created, everything, including Hell, you could never be somewhere devoid of creation...
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    Why doesn't God forgive people in hell?

    Why couldn't god answer all those questions now and then that would let more people believe in him. All humans have the ability to rationalize and think logically (though a large majority of the earths population refuse to use it); something god would have 'made in us'. What you are suggesting...
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    Question from an atheist.

    I almost stopped reading there, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidences, and anecdotal evidence is far from extraordinary; its nothing really for the purpose of proving anything. I could provide evidences from my life why there isn't a god by saying "Once I asked god to show me a...
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    God's Morals?

    Gods people did something similar (except with a virgin daughter), God is sooooooo awesome! (Judges 11:29-40) Another fun fact, if you want to marry a girl that doesn't want to marry you, just rape her and all you have to do is pay 50 sheckles of silver! (Deuteronomy 22:28-29) Or if you are a...
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    Question from an atheist.

    I am an atheist (was a fundamentalist christian for the first 17 years of my life, I am 21 now) because I do not believe there is any evidence to support the belief that God is real. I am completely open to believing in a god, if only there were evidence, what sort of evidence can anyone here...
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    How do I overcome prejudice?

    So she should look at the student as a horrible retched piece of trash deserving of hellfire?
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    God's Morals?

    You either know this is BS or you have deluded yourself. God created hell, he is the 'judge' who decides where we will spend eternity, he could easily not send anyone to hell. And please, stop trying to twist hell into a way that god is trying to be loving or kind to non believers; again, you...
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    God's Morals?

    I do not have enough time to respond as fully as I want to right now, but I want to make a quick comment. Hitler was good to the German people, does this give him a pass for the genocide he caused? Oh but I forgot we are talking about god after all, he needs not hold himself to the moral...