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In reply to the discussion: Questions that atheists can provide no good answer for: [View all]ollie10
(2,091 posts)152. Thank you!
Last edited Tue Mar 27, 2018, 12:19 PM - Edit history (1)
Your post will likely fall on deaf ears though, because they are unaware of the contempt, divisiveness and intolerance they display just as they seek to ridicule others for their perceived contempt, divisivenss and intolerance.
It is tribalism. Those who attack the other side are convinced they are right and the other side is wrong. Nobody looks in a mirror, it seems.
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I think God was created by man and the Bible written by man similar to our constitution
meadowlark5
Mar 2018
#227
You gotta wonder if it's because religionists often aren't very certain and hope
dawg day
Mar 2018
#78
Additionally, now I'm conflicted as to what I do believe and so gotta go check.
sprinkleeninow
Mar 2018
#100
The only thing not perfect about this response is that your post number is 660, not 666.
CrispyQ
Mar 2018
#29
Um, "the force" is a fictional creation in a syfy tale, as is the concept of "god". nt
procon
Mar 2018
#165
Imagine that there's been infinity 'big bangs' and you'll get where I'm going ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2018
#61
Also think it MAY be possible that we are simply missing a piece of the equation ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2018
#71
A few months ago I was a passenger in a car full of people driving through Denver.
CrispyQ
Mar 2018
#31
the bible says god looks like a human male, human males being created in his own image and all
msongs
Mar 2018
#17
Another question religionists fail to answer is why did they choose their one particular god
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2018
#38
Logic and reason give consistently useful results. Mumbling prayers gives no results.
Binkie The Clown
Mar 2018
#39
This is why I'm agnostic. I tend to think that staunch atheists are the other side of the
Neema
Mar 2018
#56
I have relatives who are staunch atheists and think anyone religious or agnostic is a total
Neema
Mar 2018
#90
Not surprising to have either relatives or close friends that are going to impose such expectations
Major Nikon
Mar 2018
#91
I apologize for rude, ugly, unexpected comments you get here in the Religion forum.
yallerdawg
Mar 2018
#112
Funny, that's the top of the lit of "Questions that theists can provide no good answer for"
Lordquinton
Mar 2018
#69
"So what's a description of the creator? You claim one exists, so you should have an idea."
trotsky
Mar 2018
#109
Do you see the creator in a deer that's killed in a forest fire? Or in a child dying of cancer?
CrispyQ
Mar 2018
#233
Uhhh, theists can't provide a good answer for that question either.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2018
#136
Says the guy presenting a religious answer to a scientific question in his OP.
Act_of_Reparation
Mar 2018
#160
If no gods existed, then we wouldn't expect there to be a universe at all, would we?
DanTex
Mar 2018
#175
Because it would be simpler, and there would be no reason to believe otherwise.
DanTex
Mar 2018
#183
There is no purely physical explanation for the existence of anything at all, including physics.
DanTex
Mar 2018
#224
I am speculating that without a higher power, nothing would be the default, yes.
DanTex
Mar 2018
#228
But it's also speculation that the existence of a universe without a higher power is even possible.
DanTex
Mar 2018
#232
"is most definitely not the state of affairs that anyone would expect if there were no god"
trotsky
Mar 2018
#230