If theists were rational.

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  1. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Right.
     
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  3. Repo Man Valued Senior Member

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    Christian dogma is that a man can kill millions, ask for forgiveness on his deathbed and be saved and go to heaven; while a non-believer can live a good life, never harm anyone, and yet is condemned to spend an eternity being tortured after death because they offended god's vanity by not believing in him.
     
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  5. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    So you think criminals should be treated with dignity but theists should be berated? Don't be surprised if focusing on the people rather than the issue only clouds the issue.
     
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  7. VitalOne Banned Banned

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    No Jesus never says that....you're using flawed logic....rather Jesus says "he who is not against us is for us"..."those who kill by the sword must die by the sword", etc...
     
  8. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Myths and superstitions are not recognized as objective concepts as there is no observable phenomena to be reckoned. Human beings that understand that are treated with validity and dignity.
     
  9. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Fine. I'll dumb it down for you. Criminals should not be tortured, 'k? Neither should they be accorded dignity. 'K? Criminals should be treated appropriate to their crime (whatever that may be. Who cares.)

    Theists should be identified for what they are - Purveyors of an adopted delusion based on cultural transmission and nothing more. Accepting of "faith" (willing acceptance of pure ignorance) as a virtue. Both of which mark them as wothy of derision by rational humans who actually care about the real plight of people.
     
  10. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Ah tolerance.
     
  11. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    If you don't believe in treating humans with dignity, then there is really not much to discuss.

    All your other grandiose pronouncements on plight of the people are just patronising pontifications, since your derision will undermine any such efforts
     
  12. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Right.
     
  13. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    To be so bold as to challenge the theist majority for which you defend, the myths and superstitions which make up those beliefs, is an effort demanding a great courage.

    The courage is mustered if the stakes are high. Clearly, mankind's future is a stake to be reckoned with, and is obviously on the radar of those who also think so.

    Of course, they are the theists woo-woos.
     
  14. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    By circumventing the very principles they pretend to uphold?

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    How interesting; I wonder if you see the dangers of such immature thought processes. Or perhaps not.

    We've already injected memes and evolutionary behaviour into "science"; not too far before manifest destiny presents itself in biological cloaks and leads us into its own dark alleys.
     
  15. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    I have no idea what you're talking about.

    Huh? Are you high today?
     
  16. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Upholding people's freedoms by undermining them, using science to "disprove" faith

    Nah merely far sighted and clear thinking.

    You should try it.

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  17. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Where'd you go buds?

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  18. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Oh, I see. So, you believe that freedom means to allow theists to make their beliefs our reality, and science is undermining that freedom by demonstrating that those beliefs are in fact merely myth and superstition.

    If those faiths had even an inkling of credibility, they would care less what science was trying to prove or disprove. In fact, science would inevitably come to the conclusion those faiths were valid.

    Sorry, I don't buy it. No clear thinker would ever come to those conclusions, darling. You ARE high.

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  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Well toots at least I know the limits of science.

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    :shrug:
     
  20. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, but it's a misconception based on how far you can through a copy of the Quran.

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  21. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    No merely on silly details like empiricism and testability.

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  22. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    True. And when applied to theist beliefs, the results are...
     
  23. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    How do you "observe" beliefs? Or test them?
     

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