Search results

Euthypro's Dilemma, now for ATHEISTS! (agnostics too) Just pick the poll answer that is true. Simple as that. Leave comments explaining your choice if you like. This is not an apologetic topic. For the sake of this discussion, it will be assumed that God(s) do not exist and never have. Any...

Does anyone else think that there's a strong correlation between "the dumb guy character" on a sitcom, and the actor's success after the show ends? Woody Harrleson from Cheers Thomas Hayden Church from Wings Joe Rogan from Newsradio Anyone else have any other examples I haven't listed? How...

Does God practice justice, or does God practice mercy? I would say that practicing justice is to ensure that people get punishments they deserve. And I would say that practicing mercy is to spare people from punishments they deserve. Clearly, it isn't possible to do both, so which does God...

What does it take to earn eternal salvation? If you think you know the answer, are you sure? If you aren't sure, could you do more? If you could do more, why aren't you?

Little Johnny walked into the kitchen one day and asked his mother, "Where did people come from?" His mother explained that, "Millions of years ago there were animals that looked like monkeys, and over time they slowly became more and more human-like until there were humans". So then little...

Why do so many Christians tell other people outside of the Christian faith that they're sinning? This isn't a complaint about being offended by being told I'm a sinner. It's a genuine curiosity about the efficacy of informing people of an opinion that they have no reason to agree with. It...

First the disclaimer: This is not a thread about God commanding and doing evil deeds in the Bible. This is a thought experiment and not accusatory in any way. I am not attempting to attack or defame God, I am putting this here to question the justification for believing that any god that...

Also, should they? If parents can overrule all of their rights, can we really point to The Constitution to say that no one else can? It would seem as though they don't really have those rights to begin with in my opinion. Some examples to ponder over. If a teacher tells a student he isn't...

With all the threads talking about attacks on freedom of speech these days, I wanted to discuss one of the biggest violators of the first amendment. It's one thing if an employer fires their employee for saying something they don't like, it's another thing entirely if the government forces them...

Should anyone do them ever? If so, how? Shot for shot remakes, or complete "reimaginings" or somewhere in-between? All anyone wants to remake are movies that were already great. How about remaking movies that tanked because of bad acting, poor production values, or ill-conceived plot points...

The existence of free will does not necessitate the existence of evil. It is possible for a world to exist that has free will but won't ever have evil. God can do anything that is possible. God can create a world with free will beings that won't ever have evil.

I thought we could do with a little lighter subject, so I'm here to claim the Bible contradicts itself. I'm not going to say what it should mean to Christians that it does, I'm just going to point them out. Bible Contradictions are kind of like pop-atheism, and they don't stir up nearly as...

If there is something you are unaware of, you can't know that you are unaware of it. For example, before discovering the Americas, people didn't know that it existed, but furthermore, they didn't know that they didn't know that it existed. The bolded portion is the important part, and that's...

For me, the anime that don't try to stretch a show out forever are the best. I liked Bleach and Naruto a lot, but it irritates me a lot to have to watch "previously on..." for half of an episode just for filler. I lean towards darker/weirder stories and topics, but I don't have a good way of...

What do you support (laws, policies, practices, programs, ideas, etc.) that have an impact on reducing the number of abortions? Whether it ever becomes completely illegal or not, I think most people agree that it's a bad thing when someone is faced with a pregnancy that they didn't want, so...

Post your favorite MSM lies here, and I will continually update this opening post with a directory to each one. And then, when people try to say you can trust the MSM to have their information correct, simply point them to this thread. Heck, you could even link to this thread in your signature...

I know the debate about white privilege has a lot of angles, but I want to focus down on just one, so everyone try real hard to stay on topic. The statistics bear it out that blacks are more likely to be impoverished than whites, and that's generally the basis for the argument of white...

I keep seeing it pop up from time to time in various threads with varying degrees of on-topicness, so I thought we could start a thread specifically for this debate and duke it out for a while. Now I'm sure we've got some folks around here with economics degrees that are going to object to my...

For people who haven't heard the fable, here's a link to the story to start: The Boy Who Cried Wolf Now we all know the moral of the story is don't tell lies, and that's what the boy should learn. But is that all there is to the story? Should the villagers learn something from the events...

I'm well aware that not all Christians ascribe to a literal interpretation of Genesis, but I'm curious why some feel it is important to retain the literal interpretation. Basically, my thinking is that Jesus hid the truth in parables, so why wouldn't God? Not everything in the Bible is to be...