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View Poll Results: I think religion.....
is the only answer if you wish to be saved. 3 8.82%
is an option I have opted to decline. 14 41.18%
is something that I feel I had to find from within myself. 11 32.35%
is something I have thought about...but I have many questions and doubts. 6 17.65%
is something one should never discuss in public...get back to politics! 0 0%
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Old 08-21-2008, 12:57 PM   #881 (permalink)
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Where did he say that?

As some like to say here, cite your source.

Or,

show the logic and/or science of your exclamation.
Being consistent with Christianity, I don't have to do either. I expect you to just take my word for it.

It is perfectly scientific and logical for God to pick me for this message of all the beings in the history of the universe. It's called E-science.
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Being consistent with Christianity, I don't have to do either. I expect you to just take my word for it.

It is perfectly scientific and logical for God to pick me for this message of all the beings in the history of the universe. It's called E-science.
Well Christianity includes Christ. Note the name.

Following the example of Christ instead of our own way or the way of Satan.

That is in our Bible.

Where is your user manual for your proclamations and basis for your authority?
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Well Christianity includes Christ. Note the name.

Following the example of Christ instead of our own way or the way of Satan.

That is in our Bible.

Where is your user manual for your proclamations and basis for your authority?
Instead of a work of fiction, I use the literature from biology, anthropology, physics, and all the other sciences as my authorities. Though I will concede that fiction does sometimes communicate many moral ideas rather well. Of course these must always be checked against the scientific literature for plausibility. Your bible unfortunately does not meet the plausibility test.
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Instead of a work of fiction, I use the literature from biology, anthropology, physics, and all the other sciences as my authorities. Though I will concede that fiction does sometimes communicate many moral ideas rather well. Of course these must always be checked against the scientific literature for plausibility. Your bible unfortunately does not meet the plausibility test.
You documents are good for supplementing the truths included in the Bible. Yet man's inclination to worship himself comfounds some of the science, e.g., Theory of Evolution.

I have shown you the many holes that should lead you to reject this scientific fiction but you insist on rejecting the scientific and logical facts.
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You documents are good for supplementing the truths included in the Bible. Yet man's inclination to worship himself comfounds some of the science, e.g., Theory of Evolution.

I have shown you the many holes that should lead you to reject this scientific fiction but you insist on rejecting the scientific and logical facts.
Worshiping the god of the bible is self worship, of the very worst kind.
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Worshiping the god of the bible is self worship, of the very worst kind.
Oh please. You do not even believe in God so your postulation is bogus on its face.

In your view and according to Occam, you would just worship yourself.

That is what YOU do.
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Oh please. You do not even believe in God so your postulation is bogus on its face.

In your view and according to Occam, you would just worship yourself.

That is what YOU do.
You have to be outside to see the truth. When you're masturbating you can convince yourself you are with Angelina, but everyone else knows your just playing with yourself.

As I explained before atheism/agnosticism is the only way you can see that you are not the center of the universe.
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You have to be outside to see the truth. When you're masturbating you can convince yourself you are with Angelina, but everyone else knows your just playing with yourself.
Angelina is not married so she is available. But that hillbilly Billy Bob Thornton did her so I will pass.

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As I explained before atheism/agnosticism is the only way you can see that you are not the center of the universe.
Yet the universe is but one expression of God's vivid imagination.

He placed man at the center of what we can see.
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He placed man at the center of what we can see.
That is an interesting conundrum, for sure. Of course the center of what we see is not necessarily the center of what is
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That is an interesting conundrum, for sure. Of course the center of what we see is not necessarily the center of what is
What is is because of us. That is what we can see.

The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that God placed infinity at our feet.
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