Post Your Tough Questions Regarding Atheism

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  1. WanRen

    WanRen New Member Past Donor

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    I know what Christians will say but it would seems that atheist will always turn to God to answer my question are you saying athiest donot discriminate against gays or Christians?
    Jesus is the greatest teacher so far no athiest has match Jesus teaching abilities.
     
  2. WanRen

    WanRen New Member Past Donor

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    Just like all athiest you too turn to God for answers. Clearly athiest have no answers without turning to God.
     
  3. WanRen

    WanRen New Member Past Donor

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    Christians already know the answers in regards to Christianity this thread is about athiest and atheism and so far no answers without turning to God.
    Is this the answer always God to athism? No pure athiest answers without turning to God?
    Truly, God is with us all :pray:
     
  4. Tuatara

    Tuatara Well-Known Member

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    Athiests have always been telling me to go away
    or to go back to school. They use my bad English as an excuse to not answer my questions about Atheism.

    Lesson one is free.
     
  5. domer76

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    Yeah, your English sucks, but that's OK. No problem there. It's your other cognitive skills that suck even more and that's something you should be concerned about.
     
  6. domer76

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    They may or may not discriminate. They just don't use their holy book to justify it.

    Did you need Jesus to teach you right from wrong? I just needed good non-Christian parents.
     
  7. WanRen

    WanRen New Member Past Donor

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    My English is very bad just as bad as athiest and athism.
    Is this why athiest can not answer their own questions?
     
  8. domer76

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    I had no questions. Just observations on your lousy cognitive skills and the lies you've been told.

    What "Christian" university indoctrinated you?
     
  9. robini123

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    The Bible espouses conditional rape in Deuteronomy. The above general examples do not prove that all in those groups espoused rape. In oppressive authoritarian systems of government the masses will often make moral concessions in order to survive.

    Did you personally have to be told that rape was wrong to understand that it is wrong?

    Christians have committed rape too. I would say that rape is wrong and that I am happy that secular law is on my side.

    Is it wrong only if your God says it is? How do you reconcile the above with Deuteronomy 22: 28-29?

    I have never met an atheist or Christian who said that they had to be taught that rape was wrong. If you had to be taught that rape is wrong then you will be the first person I have ever met that had to have it explained to them.
     
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    Police enforce law created by government which trumps individual morality.

    Then you and I have a disagreement as to what atheism is defined as. I define it as a belief that there is no God. The above does nothing to defeat that premise.

    Humanity is chaos. Christianity has historically wrought chaos wherever it has spread.
     
  11. dairyair

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    That is the $64M question.
    I think that question has been asked since man could communicate with another. And has been in the mind of man since the beginning of thought.
    As of today, it can't be answered. So many theories are out there. Religion is just one of them. And the most popular for a while.
     
  12. dairyair

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    Yet people still post to the troll.
     
  13. dairyair

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    Humans, for the most part.
    But nature can correct humans, or at least put them in their place.
    But humans have taken some control over nature. Landscaping to reduce or enhance the effects of nature. So far we don't control when it rains or the sunshines. We try to manage it when needed.

    PS - no need to respond.
     
  14. yardmeat

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    You dodged the question. I asked about theists, not Christians. If you are going to generalize about atheists, then the opposite to consider are theists. If you want to get more specific an talk about Christianity, then the intellectually honest thing to do is to compare Christianity (a specific form of theism) to something like secular humanism (a specific form of atheism). You'll notice that the secular humanist here have more consistently argued against things like slavery, rape, raiding and theft than the Christians around here have. Humanists tend to consider these things to be categorically bad. Christians, on the other hand (at least those who believe in the scriptures) believe that there was a time when all of these things we not only permissible, but commanded by God.

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    You've confused a counterexample for "answers."
     
  15. dairyair

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    Keep it simple, as we are humans. Moral relativism. For every culture in the world may not have the same morals. But as humans and the world become smaller with technology, more and more societies adopt similar morals. But sometimes wars take place to make the changes.
    Kinda like stories in the bible. Only God approved and commanded killing others who didn't have the same morals. Guess God of the bible is no better than man.
     
  16. dairyair

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    That is your problem alone. A sad problem that you can't be human, but it is your problem.
    Most do right, because they are naturally prone to love and not hurt and hate.
    Psychiatry can help those who are prone to not do right. Medications can help those who are prone to not do right. Those who need a supernatural power to do right, or the threat of eternal punishment to do right, have real big issues.

    Again, don't feel the need to respond. I am just posting out of kindness. Something you seem to lack, per your posts.
     
  17. VicSavage

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    The op asked for my tough questions regaurding atheism. I gave him a few to answer. I've yet to get a responce to these questions. The op did respond to my intelligent design question.
     
  18. dairyair

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    Amazing isn't it.
    But, there are those that need the threat of eternal damnation to correct their wicked ways to other humans. So don't completely knock it.
     
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    The same evidence that god always existed.
    And no one has ever proved something can't come from nothing. And no one has ever proved that nothing ever existed.
    Back at square 1. Provided a square existed at 1.
     
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    How can something come from nothing, if nothing is the lack of something?
     
  21. dairyair

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    Yes, because Islam as a group does nothing about it. Why don't they? It's in their neighborhood.
    You sound like a jewish group, God put you in a bad light. No, your religion about some god put you in a bad light. There is a difference.

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    The accent is fake.
    There are many posts of this handle that posts perfect english sentences.
    Don't fall for it.
     
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    I can't answer for the OP, but I asked him a similar question regarding deists earlier in this thread. Personally (and the OP seems to agree), I consider deists to be freethinkers. I don't find the philosophical arguments for the existence of God to be persuasive myself, but I can see where someone else would find them convincing (again, on a philosophical level, independent from any specific religious tradition). I'm a big fan of deists like Thomas Paine myself, as well as pantheists like Spinoza.
     
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    What exactly is a thing?
     
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    And, related to dairyair's post, can you give me an example of nothing that I can examine? I'd have to take a look at it before I can determine that it can't produce anything.
     
  25. WanRen

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    If you think this thread is not being truthful that is fine with me, I am just asking simple not tough questions about atheism as per this thread is supposed to be.
     

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