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ETA: If I want a "happy life", I'll start with a Happy Meal at McDonald's.It's simply a set of guidelines to a happy life... one that was written as a contrast to the 10 commandments in the bible.
I already answered it for you here: 232.
Looks like you didn't even recognize it when you stepped over it.
Someone needs a course in Basic Theology, do they?
ETA: If I want a "happy life", I'll start with a Happy Meal at McDonald's.
On the other hand, if I want joy, I'll go to Christ.
Differences:
Dawkins doesn't claim his "commandments" are from god.
Dawkins doesn't claim his "commandments" will lead to salvation in the afterlife.
It's simply a set of guidelines to a happy life... one that was written as a contrast to the 10 commandments in the bible.
I'm failing to see how following the original 10 commandments won't lead to a happy life. Less materialism, lusting, broken homes, dishonesty. Sounds like a pretty decent start?
Mathematics is the only valid theology. All the rest is specious jactitation.
"... a sharp, two-edged Shredder."Dawkins can take a hike.
Unless you can show me, from his documentation, where (or to whom) these made-up commandments are to lead, please don't try to impress me with them, or I'll do what I do best --- put your junk philosophy through a sharp, two-edged Shredder.
Refer back to Carlin's take on them. They're not terribly bad guidelines... they're simply rich in what Carlin calls "spooky language", and their reliance on the divine as inspiration is unneccesary.
Indeed, he seems to think he's quite the PWNer when it comes to apologetics. He and dad sure have some delusions of grandeur..."... a sharp, two-edged Shredder."
Is that what you actually think you're doing?
He fancies himself a kind of common man's sage, putting us snobby intellectuals in our places and showing that all that fancy book-readin' and science-doin' is no match against a god-fearing Baptist, lacking as though his education might be."... a sharp, two-edged Shredder."
Is that what you actually think you're doing?
He fancies himself a kind of common man's sage, putting us snobby intellectuals in our places and showing that all that fancy book-readin' and science-doin' is no match against a god-fearing Baptist, lacking as though his education might be.
If I wouldn't hold myself to such stringent standards when it comes to armchair psychiatry, I would suspect he might be suffering from split personality disorder, one part of him getting his behind handed to him from everybody everytime he posts, the other "pwning" his opponents left and right with hilarious one-liners and devilishly clever semantics. Otherwise, I wouldn't know how one could manage to be so completely and utterly wrong about literally everything, from history, politics and the most basic concepts of science to his own religion and back.
Dawkins can take a hike.
Unless you can show me, from his documentation, where (or to whom) these made-up commandments are to lead, please don't try to impress me with them, or I'll do what I do best --- put your junk philosophy through a sharp, two-edged Shredder.
He fancies himself a kind of common man's sage, putting us snobby intellectuals in our places and showing that all that fancy book-readin' and science-doin' is no match against a god-fearing Baptist, lacking as though his education might be.
If I wouldn't hold myself to such stringent standards when it comes to armchair psychiatry, I would suspect he might be suffering from split personality disorder, one part of him getting his behind handed to him from everybody everytime he posts, the other "pwning" his opponents left and right with hilarious one-liners and devilishly clever semantics. Otherwise, I wouldn't know how one could manage to be so completely and utterly wrong about literally everything, from history, politics and the most basic concepts of science to his own religion and back.
Dawkins can take a hike.
Unless you can show me, from his documentation, where (or to whom) these made-up commandments are to lead, please don't try to impress me with them, or I'll do what I do best --- put your junk philosophy through a sharp, two-edged Shredder.
When a road leads to Christ, and you close that road and open a new one --- it had better lead somewhere.There are not meant to "lead" anywhere. They are just common sense guidelines that are above any religion. You don't need a God to tell you what is right or wrong. A lot of what Dawkins stated is essentially the same as many of the 10 commandments. If you put those guidelines through a shredder, you might as well put the 10 commandments through (and a lot of what Jesus said).
Why do guidelines have to "lead" to somewhere to be taken seriously? Obeying the speed limit doesn't "lead" to God, they are made-up commandments. Do you follow the "junk philosophy" of the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
and if it doesn't, what then? many who are wiser then you have seen the end of that road and know it is a dead end.When a road leads to Christ, and you close that road and open a new one --- it had better lead somewhere.
as does the bible. Believing in something out of fear is certainly a road that leads to 'me'I suspect --- and again, I haven't read the book --- the new road leads to "me".
Actually no kidding aside, Lucifer is quite the unintended romantic hero if you ask me.Which is just what Lucifer wanted to do --- supplant God with himself.
Dawkins can take a hike, and take his "another gospel" with him.
I pray that some day you will be able to converse with them (by going forward in time --- not back).wow, it would be great if i could go back in time to England and tell the christains that when they first arrived.
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