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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    Your belief in God puts humans at the center of EVERYTHING. To have a Biblical view of god, one has to believe that humans are the center of the universe, or at the very least, the center of God's universe, particularly if you think he cares how each and every one of us live our lives and cares what we think about.
    Does it? That's news to me. Why must one believe as you say?

    2+2 does not equal 3.
    now you're just babbling, Kizz. Judging by your inability to defend your claim we may suppose that my faith is irrational because you said so. I'm sure you understand why I reject such reasoning.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    Your belief in God puts humans at the center of EVERYTHING. To have a Biblical view of god, one has to believe that humans are the center of the universe, or at the very least, the center of God's universe, particularly if you think he cares how each and every one of us live our lives and cares what we think about.

    2+2 does not equal 3.
    It's not just a belief, I know there is life after death. You have a right not to believe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Does it? That's news to me. Why must one believe as you say?
    Tell me about all the other planets that God keeps track of. Tell me about all the other creations that God views as being in the image of him. The Bible puts humans at the center of everything, and I think that's outright silly. It takes faith in the irrational to believe in that crap.
    now you're just babbling, Kizz. Judging by your inability to defend your claim we may suppose that my faith is irrational because you said so. I'm sure you understand why I reject such reasoning.
    It wouldn't be up to me to prove that someone's belief in garden fairies is false or irrational, it would be up to the people believing in the garden fairies to prove that it's rational.

    So tell me, why is your belief in god rational?
    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
    Isn't that kind-of a stretch? Denying someone an opportunity is not redistributing wealth.
    I would have thought that restricting opportunity for those who toe the conservative line was exactly that.

    Aren't your women having a grand debate about how restrictive contraceptive/family planning policies represent an attack on the economic position of women?
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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    It's not just a belief, I know there is life after death.
    No, you don't, you BELIEVE there is life after death.
    You have a right not to believe.
    You're right.
    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
    Tell me about all the other planets that God keeps track of. Tell me about all the other creations that God views as being in the image of him. The Bible puts humans at the center of everything, and I think that's outright silly. It takes faith in the irrational to believe in that crap.

    It wouldn't be up to me to prove that someone's belief in garden fairies is false or irrational, it would be up to the people believing in the garden fairies to prove that it's rational.

    So tell me, why is your belief in god rational?
    It is "self-evident", isn't it?

    It's just a perversion that the smartest people - in education, science - believe it is not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    No, you don't, you BELIEVE there is life after death.
    You're right.
    You are not correct. You can put believe in caps all you want but I know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kizzume View Post
    No, you don't, you BELIEVE there is life after death.
    You're right.
    The point is not that there is life after death. The point is that desperate people think there is.

    And there is some logic to that. They will never have to know that they are wrong. Win-win.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    I would have thought that restricting opportunity for those who toe the conservative line was exactly that.

    Aren't your women having a grand debate about how restrictive contraceptive/family planning policies represent an attack on the economic position of women?
    Yeah, but putting people in a bad economic position isn't redistributing wealth. Maybe I'm arguing semantic here a little, but it bothers me.
    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 roadmaster View Post
    You are not correct. You can put believe in caps all you want but I know.
    How do you KNOW? Did you die and come back to life? Did you see what people see when they take a lot of mushrooms?

    That's like saying you KNOW God exists.
    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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