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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    There is no physical evidence of God.
    So? There should e evidence for fairies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    but you believe i equality without reservation. Get your story straight!

    From where did the spaghetti and meatballs come? They can't be timeless. After all, it's spaghetti ad meatballs. Why can't I see this monster? I must be able to. It has a physical form. It consists of wheat, beef and hopefully pork. I'm not seeing the analogy to theism. Can you help?
    It's the fact that you're expecting me to consider your belief in the supernatural to be rational. You want me to believe that a belief in God is rational. And I'm saying that it's just as rational as believing in anything else that's supernatural--basically, it's NOT rational, and if you want me to believe it is, you're going to have to offer some sort of proof. And no, a religious book is not proof.
    Sorry--but I do not accept the idea that being intolerant of intolerance is THE SAME THING as being intolerant of anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    So? There should e evidence for fairies.
    There is no evidence for fairies and there is no evidence for God(tm).

    I don't believe in "equality" as a tangible thing, I believe it's something to strive for. But I've said that many times already.
    Sorry--but I do not accept the idea that being intolerant of intolerance is THE SAME THING as being intolerant of anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    It's the fact that you're expecting me to consider your belief in the supernatural to be rational. You want me to believe that a belief in God is rational. And I'm saying that it's just as rational as believing in anything else that's supernatural--basically, it's NOT rational, and if you want me to believe it is, you're going to have to offer some sort of proof. And no, a religious book is not proof.
    I still don't see the connection to theism. This silly construct was supposed to be analogous to theism but clearly it's not. Your lack of knowledge regarding theism and the Christian conception of God is no surprise. Sad but unsurprising.

    I don't want anything from you, Kizz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    There is no evidence for fairies and there is no evidence for God(tm).

    I don't believe in "equality" as a tangible thing, I believe it's something to strive for. But I've said that many times already.
    but there should be evidence for fairies. That's precisely where your analogy fails.

    You believe in equality, Kizz. That's clear. It's also clear that you require no evidence that human beings are equal. You're going on faith.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I still don't see the connection to theism. This silly construct was supposed to be analogous to theism but clearly it's not. Your lack of knowledge regarding theism and the Christian conception of God is no surprise. Sad but unsurprising.

    I don't want anything from you, Kizz.
    I was raised Christian. I know what the faith is about. I left my faith in my early 20s, I started to leave it when I was 17.

    The connection to theism is the belief in a supernatural being--goddess, god, alah, flying spaghetti monster, whatever--a belief in a supernatural being takes pure faith in something irrational. There is NO reason to believe we have a creator, or that someone is watching everything that we do.
    Sorry--but I do not accept the idea that being intolerant of intolerance is THE SAME THING as being intolerant of anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    but there should be evidence for fairies. That's precisely where your analogy fails.
    How? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF GOD!!!! It's NO DIFFERENT!!!
    You believe in equality, Kizz. That's clear. It's also clear that you require no evidence that human beings are equal. You're going on faith.
    I believe equality is a goal--a goal that can never totally be reached. I've said it over and over again. I don't appreciate you telling me I believe something that I've been clear that I don't believe.
    Sorry--but I do not accept the idea that being intolerant of intolerance is THE SAME THING as being intolerant of anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pjohns View Post
    This is not an example of benign atheism. Rather, it is an (almost ostentatious) example of virulent anti-theism.

    This is what is known as the fallacy of the complex question; the classic example of it being the plaintive query, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"

    It could also be (reasonably enough) classified as an example of question-begging (petitio principii), as it assumes, in its very premise, that theism is inherently irrational...

    I see the religious right vociferously applauds your "inspired" nonsense.
    Come sit down beside me I said to myself
    And although it doesn't make sense
    I held my own hand as a small sign of trust
    And together I sat on the fence


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    I was raised Christian. I know what the faith is about. I left my faith in my early 20s, I started to leave it when I was 17.

    The connection to theism is the belief in a supernatural being--goddess, god, alah, flying spaghetti monster, whatever--a belief in a supernatural being takes pure faith in something irrational. There is NO reason to believe we have a creator, or that someone is watching everything that we do.
    That's what they all say while demonstrating a Sunday school conception of Christian theology.

    Again, the Spaghetti Monster is a rather inept analogy which is why it's popular on the Internet, I suppose.

    There are plenty of reasons to believe. You have the cosmological argument, the moral argument, etc. They need not be convincing to you in order to be rational.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    How? THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF GOD!!!! It's NO DIFFERENT!!!

    I believe equality is a goal--a goal that can never totally be reached. I've said it over and over again. I don't appreciate you telling me I believe something that I've been clear that I don't believe.
    u mad bro?

    There should be evidence for fairies. They are physical beings. What don't you understand?

    You believe in equality otherwise you would not pursue it as a goal.
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