Hey FrGamble!
September 30th, 2015 at 3:45:06 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
You mean without the concept of a god. That there is a god is not provable. *I wrote this before I read what the English guy in Canada said. I would never knowing copy him. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 1st, 2015 at 11:20:05 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Great summary. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 1st, 2015 at 11:26:20 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
What you describe is not worthy of religion. It is your own made up farce or straw man. Religion's foundation is the freedom of man to use his God-given intellect and will to decide who or what he is to love and believe in. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 1st, 2015 at 11:28:52 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
You need to be more careful with statements like this. What you mean is that God cannot be scientifically or mathematical provable. There are many things that you and I know to be true that are not provable. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 1st, 2015 at 1:05:14 PM permalink | |
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
Whats to be careful there? 'Know to be true' without proof doesn't mean anything to an outside observer. You tell me you KNOW God to exist and to love. Great. Well done. Nice work. Means nothing much to me without having some sort of evidence to back it up. My approval, of course, doesn't mean anything to your belief, but you belief in knowing it to be true means nothing to me. And thus we reach the standard impasse. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
October 1st, 2015 at 1:06:19 PM permalink | |
TheCesspit Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 1929 |
And an objective external morality isn't required. It might be nice. It's just not a necessary condition for life to exist. Even with a prime mover. It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die.... it's called Life |
October 1st, 2015 at 5:56:54 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Atheists are their own moral arbiters. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
October 1st, 2015 at 6:17:18 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Why would you say this? Hasn't it been shown over and over that atheism leads to this senseless hatred and violence? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
October 1st, 2015 at 6:46:45 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Uhm, no? For every example of athiests being responsible for hatred and sensless violence, there is another fed by religious belief. Did athiests fly the planes into the World Trade Center? Did athiests bomb and attack each other in Northern Ireland for years? No, you can not claim that athiests are the cause of or the source of hatred and violence. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
October 1st, 2015 at 7:09:49 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | edited If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |