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    Without God (or at least Intelligent Design)...

    I would think that if the God which is often represented in the scriptures exists (Elohim/Yahweh Elohim/the Father/etc), then "absolute morality" not only does *not* help to determine every choice that God makes, but it is also flexible, and thus, not absolute (at least, not in the sense that...
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    Does Atheism Equal Materialism?

    I was assuming the OP meant the philosophical type of materialism/physicalism. I agree with the "nopes", and I would also add a theist/believer could lean towards some version of physicalism/materialism as well.
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    Misconceptions

    Back to the OP 1) That I'm an atheist. 2) That I'm a Christian. 3) That I shouldn't reference Judaeo-Christian scriptures unless I believe they are infallible.
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    My Linnaeus Challenge

    Perhaps the OP should be moved to this section of the forum, given whom the OP is requesting the responses to be limited to. As far as answering the OP, *when I was married legally in the US* ... I treated my spouse like a treasure. And still do. I also treated them like multicellular...
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    Commercial Ethics - Buying, Selling, and Deceit

    I think people, in general, enjoy being manipulated. Being manipulated and manipulating others may even be seen as somewhat of an art form ... respectable and admirable even, depending on the context. This applies in entertainment, relationships, basic day to day activities, etc. Business...
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    Atheists/Agnostics: How Much Sense Does God Make?

    Personally, I think the concept of a personal, interventionist entity that some might believe was a deity, makes some sense. However, I would remove many of the "omni" attributes typically associated with the concept.
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    Atheists/Agnostics: How Much Sense Does God Make?

    Hmm. I don't know about that. Though I have only interacted with a few deists. I'm not sure believing there is a non-personal or non-intervening creator need be much more than a mental exercise that simply chooses an origin-story option, without fulfilling some "crutch" need. Rather than a...
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    'Easy to be an atheist if you agnore science' [moved]

    It's okay, everyone makes mistaks.
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    You are not you

    Feel free to delete this post, it had an inappropriate link in it ...
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    The Soul - is there proof?

    A big question towards what outlook, the atheistic outlook ?
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    The Soul - is there proof?

    Just wanted to point out, that being an atheist, doesn't necessitate that a person doesn't believe in a soul, supernatural things, etc.
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    God speaks to me...

    At this … my heart sank. Again, I began to feel like a crazy person. I was exploring a rabbit trail, that would be a dead end. Michigan ? I was in Hawaii lol, and barely had enough money to eat dinner for a week. How was I going to afford to go to Michigan to see if I had "heard the voice...
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    God speaks to me...

    At this, I began to wonder if I was being manipulated somehow … or perhaps if I was now going crazy. I was still sitting there, feeling hot and on fire, I was certain my face was beet red, I was crying, probably sweating a bit … and no one around me seemed to care or even take that...
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    God speaks to me...

    Cool thread ... and hi Ana :) I've given this account before, but thought I would copy/paste it from another thread, here into this one, as I think it's a nice example ... sorry if I take up multiple posts, and also, I believe the annoying "&#8230" is supposed to be "...". Anyways, here's the...
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    New Thinker

    Great thread with good examples. To those who may still think Bethany311 is a "troll", for what it's worth, I am the one who recommended this forum to her. I considered recommending a skeptics forum, however I thought the variety of believer and non would be better represented in this forum. In...
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    Did Mary have to be a Virgin for Jesus to have been the Christ?

    The males and females created in Genesis 1 by Elohim, were called "good". Going by your interpretation of "good", they were functional. According to Genesis 1, they were made in the image and after the likeness of Elohim. Adam and Eve are not called "good" by Yahweh Elohim in Genesis 2, so by...
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    Did Mary have to be a Virgin for Jesus to have been the Christ?

    Interesting thread. To the OP ... based on a cursory reading of some of the themes of the scriptures, it would seem to me that Mary being a virgin was a necessity. The reason being, a theme that seems to be prevalent concerning the "manufacture" of humans/people from beginning to end in the...
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    New Thinker

    True enough :)
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    New Thinker

    Perhaps an ad hominem ? An attack made in a personal nature, often to illicit an emotional response and distract the other person from the point or topic at hand, etc. ?