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Why are you an atheist?

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    #662
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,218 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Geomy wrote: »
    Drumpot I wouldn't even bother debating in here about higherpowers,God or Spirituality etc

    They will not buy into any of it because according to some here its all a load of waffle and ****e etc

    Oddly enough, atheists are unwilling to accept claims which have no evidence. Who'd'a' thunk it...
    Just sit back and read some of the replies same old responses to the same old debate...

    That would be because we get the same old weak arguments from theists coming on here again and again.
    I just accept they don't believe and that's it...

    Acceptance is the answer ;)

    Grand. If only the rest of society could do the same :)

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #663
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    YOLO is the verb to "be a f*cking c*nt".

    Just so you know.


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    #664
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sarky wrote: »
    YOLO is the verb to "be a f*cking c*nt".

    Just so you know.

    Linky?


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    #665
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    You'll just have to have faith in it.


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    #666
    gumbo1
    Registered Users Posts: 681 ✭✭✭gumbo1


    Not read any previous posts but responding to the thread tittle!

    "Holy Mary, mother of God"

    I thought Mary was mother of Jesus and that God himself sent the Gabriel fella to say she was gonna have his only son!! Please correct me if I'm wrong!!


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    #667
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Geomy wrote: »
    Just sit back and read some of the replies same old responses to the same old debate...

    Well, if ye religionists ever come up with a new idea, please let us know.

    However it is not our fault ye keep trotting out the same tired, old and worn-out nonsense.


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    #668
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    Well, if ye religionists ever come up with a new idea, please let us know.

    However it is not our fault ye keep trotting out the same tired, old and worn-out nonsense.

    They come up with new ideas everyday. The problem is their cohort tend to always shoot the new ideas down because they're exactly that; new.


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    #669
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Damn it, just missed post #666.


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    #670
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sarky wrote: »
    Damn it, just missed post #666.

    Meh! Wouldn't have let you have that privilege anyway. Questioning my right to absolute control. #warwithsarky


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    #671
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Jernal wrote: »
    Questioning my right to absolute control. #warwithsarky

    I hope you have a link to back that up.


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    #672
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sarky wrote: »
    I hope you have a link to back that up.

    Indeed I do.


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    #673
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Pfft, that could be any power-tripping new mod. You're taking that quote completely out of context.


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    #674
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sarky wrote: »
    Pfft, that could be any power-tripping new mod. You're taking that quote completely out of context.

    Does it matter? It is what I believe and is true to me.


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    #675
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Jernal wrote: »
    Meh! Wouldn't have let you have that privilege anyway. Questioning my right to absolute control. #warwithsarky
    Sarky wrote: »
    I hope you have a link to back that up.
    Jernal wrote: »
    Indeed I do.
    Sarky wrote: »
    Pfft, that could be any power-tripping new mod. You're taking that quote completely out of context.
    Jernal wrote: »
    Does it matter? It is what I believe and is true to me.

    Ran out of popcorn....:eek:

    indian-bombay-mix_~u28117179.jpg

    ah that's better. May as well have a glass of this while I'm here as this one could run and run.

    Old_Crafty_Hen.jpg

    Now, where were we?


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    #676
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    I was on my way to your house with my ipad...


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    #677
    FamousSeamus
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭FamousSeamus


    Religious debates are like your genitals, whether your happy or sad with what you have, please don't take it out in public!!!

    EDIT: This ins't my joke heard it somewhere else apologies if someone else used it previously I didn't read this whole trend :O


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    #678
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    II 2FAST2C II wrote: »
    Well
    Why don't you provide me a test?

    No, it is not our place. You are making the assertion here, so you have to provide evidence supporting said assertion.


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    #679
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Jernal wrote: »
    #warwithsarky

    To the knife?
    If so I'd better get my skates on and book tickets now.


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    #680
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Typical atheists always taking things out of context and meaning. We didn't mean literal war, we meant metaphorical and spiritual war.


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    #681
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I meant literal war...


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    #682
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sarky wrote: »
    I meant literal war...

    Literally?:pac:


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    #683
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Sarky wrote: »
    I meant literal war...

    Nah, you're not using enough smilies and ... ... ellipses ... :):):)


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    #684
    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,738 ✭✭✭smokingman


    So why eh?
    Simply because if god was real, omnipotent and "all seeing", then not only does he allow children to be raped, he also watches.

    That and the whole "absolutely no evidence" thing...


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    #685
    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Drumpot wrote: »
    The big bang theory is a best guess by the science community based on the tools they have to today to come to a conclusion/theory of something they are not definitively able to qualify.

    You are so close to understanding science if you take the above one step further. Your understanding of Science and the methodology of science is poor but I think could be rectified in a cascade effect by fixing just a few small misconceptions you hold.

    Pretty much ALL of science is out "best Guess" based on current tools and science. Not just one Big Bang Theory but EVERY theory in science is so. As i said in the posts before, right up to the last one you ignored, there is no point when "Atomic Theory" or "Evolution Theory" or "Big Bang Theory" would ever be renamed "Fact" because science does not work that way.

    The distinction I was making for you which you appear not to be dealing with too well is that while science is at any one time our current "best guess" it is at least based on evidence and data we actually have. Theist "god Hypothesis" however is not. This is no small or subtle distinction.

    Hypothesis is not a bad thing. It is the foundation driving force behind reason and discovery. But when a given hypothesis is entirely devoid of ALL and ANY substantiating argument, evidence, data and reasoning then we should acknowledge that too.


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    #686
    honey83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭honey83


    I remember being very young and doubting
    . I as at least 7 maybe. I'm an American and grew up between Baptist. and Catholic denominations. I was a closet Atheist up until two years ago. My family does attempt to talk me into believing but I don't put up with it.


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    #687
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    II 2FAST2C II wrote: »
    Ok
    If God is not real then did you expect to a life form to just pop out of no where
    For a perfect human body be born out of no where
    Big bang theory where it was a big bang and everything was there now that is what I find hard to believe
    It's like me clicking my finger's and woosh!!

    Which is exactly what god is supposed to have done?

    Also humans aren't "born out of nowhere" a childrens biology class could help you with this one, is there a primary school you could sit in with to pick up some pointers?

    It always make my chuckle when people who can't believe in evolution or the big bang have no idea of how either is supposed to work.


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