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Once -- and I'm familiar with the "contradiction."How many times did Saul of Tarsus encountered Jesus?
If you said "once", you have a contradiction, if you say "twice", you call the stories in the new testimony erroneous.
It is a bit mind boggling to me how someone can reason about religion in this way, but with decisions and beliefs hold in everyday ordinary life they would normally not do the same thing. How come this split personality occurs in matters of religious beliefs?
So when the evidence start flies in your face you opt to bluntly deny them?
It is a bit mind boggling to me how someone can reason about religion in this way, but with decisions and beliefs hold in everyday ordinary life they would normally not do the same thing. How come this split personality occurs in matters of religious beliefs?
It is not that this phenomena is unheard of before; I read about a case in where a spouse was regular cheated on and the other spouse, to all evidence, knew this was the case but still kept on denying this was the case for many many years.
To me it seams to be a matter of a protective denial from emotions that may hurt the individual to much if certain facts are accepted to true... It is my beliefs that this is what underlies many YEC's denials of evidence when exposed to them; a fear to confront that all they believe in is a just a deception or a lie... One need to be a strong person to be able to handle such things overnight... most will need lost of time, years if not decades....
I already got what I want: an example that justifies answering this question...Are you trying to find a way to justify your god's bloodlust?
... YES.So if Craig is your man then would you agree it ever can be morally justified to slaughter children?
The question doesn't need evidence to answer.Your answer omits anything about evidence, so is just another one of your worthless opinions.
I already got what I want: an example that justifies answering this question...
... YES.
Are you trying to find a way to justify your god's bloodlust?
That's right ... it's called "faith."So when the evidence start flies in your face you opt to bluntly deny them?
The question doesn't need evidence to answer.
Q: Is killing children ever justified?
A: Yes, in certain conditions.
If you insist on seeing evidence, maybe I can look up a Youtube video for your sick curiosity?
Counting from Sunday then I guess... I count Monday as the first day of the week. Anyway...
...it does not stop with Thor:
Tuesday - Tyr's Day
Wednesday - Woden's (Odins) Day
Thursday - Thor's Day
Friday - Freyja's Day
And the meaning is also preserved in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic (besides some exceptions in German and Icelandic; for instance Wednesday is called "midweek" in German and Icelandic) and might very well be in other Germanic languages like Faroese and Frisian etc. Finish, which is not a Germanic language, has also these references to pagan gods in the weekdays.
Monday and Sunday are celebration to the Moon and the Sun which always been very important in almost any ancient religious systems... Saturday is in English the ancient roman god Saturn but in Scandinavian languages Saturday refers to the day of the week when you was washing (I find this deviation interesting as most Germanic people, with their pagan beliefs, never accepted the Roman occupation and their culture and in particular as the Gothic people of Scandinavia was never under any ancient Roman rule ...)
Then of course we have the reference to ancient Roman gods and culture in the moth names... and not to mention a lot of pagan symbols during x-mass with North Germanic people.
Jesus was for well over a thousand years just another god, seen by some as more powerful, to sacrifice to in order to gain victory in war and other conflicts. Christianity, I would say in my limited knowledge of this, was formed, shaped and merged into an already present deep rooted ancient pagan religions in European Roma occupied countries - just in the same way Christianity got it first grip of the Romans.
Goodness, do you mean that good and evil are nebulous concepts that depend on whose interest you are rooting for? Now, where have we heard of that idea before?
Still, the bloodlust of your god goes rather beyond the limits of your attempts at justification.
I take it you're willing to back away from wanting evidence and are willing to recuse to ...Goodness, do you mean that good and evil are nebulous concepts that depend on whose interest you are rooting for? Now, where have we heard of that idea before?
Still, the bloodlust of your god goes rather beyond the limits of your attempts at justification.
... one of my 'worthless opinions'?Your answer omits anything about evidence, so is just another one of your worthless opinions.
Goodness, do you mean that good and evil are nebulous concepts that depend on whose interest you are rooting for? Now, where have we heard of that idea before?
Still, the bloodlust of your god goes rather beyond the limits of your attempts at justification.
I take it you're willing to back away from wanting evidence and are willing to recuse to ...
... one of my 'worthless opinions'?
Be careful what you ask for.
Where does this moral outrage toward God come from if He does not exist. On what basis do you make any moral judgements. If there is no absolute moral law giver, there can be no absolute moral laws, and your moral outrage is reduced to nothing but subjective opinion, of no more worth than the next guy's opinion. You cannot have it both ways.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
No, thanks.Oh please, present whatever evidence you like, and show exactly how you are using it as a comparison with your god's actions.
No, thanks.
I'm not so demanding of evidence that I need to see the justifiable killing of children.
You're the one that called It a myth.
Why are you hiding behind a false accusation of "semantics," when I ask you a question?
Do you stand behind your point, or don't you?
That gives fundamentalists the willies? hmmmDawkins puts it quite well in his memorable passage that gives fundamentalists the willies:
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Dawkins puts it quite well in his memorable passage that gives fundamentalists the willies:
That gives fundamentalists the willies? hmmm
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