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In a world without militant Islam. How do you propose to do that? And no allegiance to Satan was proposed, simply a lack of belief in God. Satan, presumably, believes in God. It worked for me, and I am neither especially ignorant nor particularly youthful. You have implied that all former...

It's weird, yeah. Sophistry, perhaps?

Fair enough. Still, not a God I want anything to do with. Why do they have to come from anything? Maybe they were here all along. Not what I asked. We own them, the President commands them. Not the most fun arrangement for us, but there you are. Just because God made me doesn't mean...

Which, as you admit, gives no credence whatever to any miraculous accounts attached to the city. By the way, sustained and methodical searches of Egypt and what was Canaan have revealed no evidence at all of any exodus of Isrealites. None at all. All evidence seems to suggest the pyramids...

Unless the creationist doctor decides to smite him with a flood.

Let's not lose sight of the metaphor. The "nut" you were referring to is me. Apparently it's harder for me to accept God's existence than others. So God made me harder for Himself to crack? Presumably, in order to entertain himself? What a childish thing to do with a sentient being. Isn't...

How could archaeology support claims of prayers being answered? It couldn't hope to, for example, corroborate the preposterous story of the Sun stopping in the sky to allow Joshua more time to wipe out the women and children of Jericho. Yes indeed. It was a very exciting find. It offers...

God is omnipotent. That means He is capable of doing anything, any way He sees fit. If not, He is not omnipotent. Therefore, all tasks are as easy as He chooses to make them. I don't need God to tell me about the order and beauty of the universe. It's there for all to see. The...

Can't argue with that. I don't think I understand this one. To fulfill the royal law of the scripture, you must love your neighbor as you do yourself? Does "royal law" refer to the law of the Pentateuch? I don't understand how this repeals the law of the Old Testament. Hmmm. That...

To use awkward phrasing, evolution can't not produce imperfect objects. Evolution doesn't have foresight. It doesn't plan for the future. It merely selects for those organisms best adapted to life in their local environments. Our brains evolved primarily on the savanna in Africa. They are...

I don't think I understand the question. I absolutely care about Hell, inasmuch as I would hate to go there and I'm delighted that there is no evidence that it exists. I'm more interested in what God's willingness to send his beloved creations to burn forever in a lake of fire says about His...

I gave your post a second look, and I think I see the source of the confusion. And I should have in the first place. You also bolded my words "Teach them to..." It looked as though I were seeing we should teach them to have sex. Of course I meant we should teach them to have sex safely. I'm...

I fear I may not be making myself clear enough. The problem I see is precisely that divine intervention is not always obvious to everyone. Why isn't it? God knows exactly how to make his presence inescapably, perfectly, shatteringly obvious to me. Why doesn't He? Does He really not care...

I hope you bother to answer them, because you certainly haven't answered me. Here's some plain questions: 1. Does God love us? 2. Does God send people to Hell? Those are some simple ones to start with. Indeed I wouldn't. But I am here, because I am interested in God, or at least...

You are a moral being, blessed with a big, powerful brain by God (or evolution, or both). You are perfectly capable of judging. Is there any passage in James I should check? Because the passage I cited in Matthew says that "not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by...

No I didn't. I said "Why shouldn't they have it if they want to?" In what language does that count as encouragement? I'm only advocating that we not erect obstacles in their way. Parents do (and should) have the greatest influence in these matters. Your position is admirable, and I...

So God doesn't particularly care if we escape suffering? Thanks for clearing that up. That makes a lot more sense. Why you would want to have anything to do with such a sadistic monster is beyond my comprehension. Thank God there's no evidence that He exists.

I don't recall saying we should encourage kids to have sex. I just said there isn't any way we're going to stop it, so let's encourage them to be safe. Besides which, really, do we need to encourage them? A heterosexual teenage boy would have sex with just about anything roughly...

OK. So God was a bit of a prat in the old days, wasn't He? What about Matthew 5:17-20? Didn't Jesus say that he did not come to repeal the old law, "not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen?" Seems to me the Jesus of the Bible was just fine with stoning people in poly-cotton...

"The" revelation, hmm? The description of God in the Bible is not a consistent one. He is at once vengeful, merciful, sadistic, kind, murderous, creative, etc. Why can't He make up his mind? This person has no more reason to claim to know this than you or I. How do you know that they...