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- flagellum0
BonSeff: Nobody denies "evolution". People just debate how it happened and what the mechanism was.
- mrdobolina0
tonx: I can guarantee he read it on one of his liberal conspiracy theory sites, this morning.
flagellum
(Oct 15 07, 13:16)And somehow this isn't a personal attack.
- czawada0
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- gramme0
99% of the time, the specific master you worship is dictated by your geographical location on earth.
flag, if you were born in Iran, Jesus Christ wouldn't be your savior, you'd be praying to Allah right now and giving countless reasons as to why he's the true god and not Christ or anyone else. Doesn't that say something to you?
It's all cultural influence. Its incredibly biased and subjective.
Antonelli
(Aug 28 07, 13:14)never got a response to this one.
Antonelli
(Oct 12 07, 11:26)Antonelli, that is not necessarily true. There are Christians all over the world. Asia, for example, has eclipsed the west in sheer numbers of professing Christians. The largest churches in almost any denomination are actually in South Korea, of all places.
Most religions are localized, or at least highly concentrated in certain areas. If locale dictates religion, then I should be into animism and earth worship like the Eastern Plains Indians were way back before us white folks. People in Britain should be worshipping Lleu, Rhiannon, Don, etcetera. People in Norway should be worshipping Thor and Freyja.
People change and religious hotbeds migrate. Large parts of Indo-China are predominantly Muslim right now. This is utterly foreign to the east, and a relatively recent import.
Christianity did not come from the west, it came from the middle east.
We all have a bias. We all come equipped with presuppositions. We are all heavily influenced, but not necessariuly defined, by our upbringing.
All religions contradict each other in ways so fundamental as to exclude the possibility for "one God, many names and many faiths."
The God of the Bible and Allah of the Koran bear only surface-level resemblances. Both cultures hark back to Abraham and his offspring. Both religions believe there is one God. Both have developed systems of morality. Both meet on houses of worship. The similarities end there.
Yes: it is all biased and subjective, unless God invented man, vs. the other way around.
People who refuse to admit the possibility of absolute truth are incapable of seeing it all in any other way than as an incredibly subjective mess.
- czawada0
You know it Robbie, let's unite to form Voltorn and fight off the god fearing!
- czawada0
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- BonSeff0
yo bob,
did you hear about jesus walking on water last tuesday?yeah man, i heard he did the icky shuffle
shit was epic.totally,
write that shit down.
- mrdobolina0
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- pandasthumb0
Thanks flagellum, that's a fairly dense response and will take me a while to refute, but I'll get back to you.
- flagellum0
mrdobolina thinks belief in the Bible = belief in the tooth fairy!
lol!
Yes, Augustine and C.S. Lewis were reeeaaaal dense and gullible.
hahaha
- lvl_130
i'm watching the same people beating the same horse.
- czawada0
300!
- BonSeff0
schools in kansas do
- flagellum0
BonSeff: I'll assume you're joking.
Antonelli: Your fallacy is in assuming that because there are concentrations of a particular belief system in certain geographic locations, that it is purely a cultural phenomenon. This is an argument from silence, ultimately. It does not in any way nullify the authenticity of the Christian message. Additionally, there are Christians all over the globe. Just as there are Muslims all over the globe.
The same line of reasoning applies to the pluralist himself. If the pluralist grew up in Madagascar or medieval France, he would not have been a pluralist!
If we are culturally conditioned regarding our religious beliefs, then why should the religious pluralist think his view is less arbitrary or conditioned than the exclusivist’s?
If Christian faith is true, then the Christian would be in a better position than the pluralist to assess the status of other religions.
- BattleAxe0
i just downloaded the kj bible to my iphone , nice ebooks app
- tonx0
wow. mr dobo that surprises me.
You actually invest enough time in considering the concept of god to form a belief - disbelief position.
I no longer consider god, santa claus, the easter bunny etc. concepts that actually merit consideration. I neither believe nor disbelieve. Not agnostic mind you, above the concept altogether. It cannot be discussed logically or academically.
- mrdobolina0
I'm watching you comment on it again.
- BonSeff0
aren't women made from ribs?
- 5timuli0
HELP ME JEEBUS!
- mrdobolina0
i just downloaded the kj bible to my iphone , nice ebooks app
BattleAxe
(Oct 12 07, 14:30)KingJulien wrote a bible?