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We tell people they're not jesus every day, what's the difference? If you're going to make such an extraordinary claim as 'I experienced God' then you're going to need more proof than 'I really did experience it'. Personally I find it quite ironic that if a person says leprechauns have talked to...

I put it to you that no one has, those that claim to have 'experienced god' are often deluded and their experiences can be explained away by 10,000 more rational/likely explanations than that 'god did it'. Not at all, common misconception. Noone comes to being atheist because they 'hate' god -...

Err... ya... You do know it's common practice for alot of these 'churches' to tell people whom don't need wheel chairs to get in one, they tell them it'll help the minister pick them for 'healing'. They don't own a wheel chair -- but of course the poor, the desperate and the gullible never...

wtf mate?

Yea, but I can see this possibly changing in the future. As atheists become more common and raise more atheist children, I see no reason to imagine they'll be any different to the religious children that just 'fall into' the religion from birth. It is possible tho that there is a natural...

Oh yes... it's because they know NOTHING about religion, not because they know alot. I'd like a test of religious knowledge between believers and non-believers. Anyway, promising study and seems quite odd considering what we can see in america and what I believed was a generally more...

Yea they're fkn sweet.

Yea but I'm pretty sure it's already been explained to you why that is wrong. I see the logic, but that obviously makes god NOT all-powerful. Well for one, perhaps there was no purpose? Perhaps he created the pretty universe and we were merely a by-product of the creation of that universe...

Well what do you mean by 'fine' ? You're trying to tell us that homosexuality is a mental disease or something are you? Even if it is, it doesn't seem too detrimental to their lives (other than via jerks) so I see no need to combat it... it would be like declaring 'desire to eat cucumber' a...

It can apply, there's no real reason to give it preference to say normal genetics ... but even so, I don't see his point? Homosexuals do still have children, there are alot of lesbians as we speak whom are carrying children, in the past lesbians/gays would be forced into hetero relationships and...

I don't understand what you're saying so I can't reply. Edit: In response to webby, I've read a bit about that but I can't say I understand enough about quantum mechanics to begin to comment too much about it. No, there are almost unlimited possible reasons.... Your guess is equally as likely...

I challenge you to prove that your life is in any way beneficial to society.

It doesn't have to be a God.. it can just be the processes of nature that has lead to your existance and provided you with such choices to which your history means it's obvious you'll only come to one answer. Yes. In some way I believe responsibility is also something made up, but for us in...

I have very little philisophical knowledge to be honest, as in I'm not a big-time philosophy reader. As far as free will goes, eh... maybe we don't have free will. I mean I think in the context of our reality, as far as we can see it, we have a sense of free will, but overall I don't think we do...

How does it seem entirely possible in real life? So being all powerful goes beyond logic? How interesting is it that now your God has to lie beyond even logic/reality (as we know it) its self to exist.

What? No. Just because children often follow after marriage does not mean the aim/purpose of that marriage was to have children. These days often people have children BEFORE they get married ;) And it's more fair to not tell them that they might be homosexual when quite clearly they could...

Brad: Do you accept that God knows all and that we have Free Will?

I am aware the UAI system isn't supposed to reflect the difficulty of a course but the only reason I can imagine you would not want someone with a lower uai getting into that course (if in the end it is not to the detriment of other students, but is rather a positive force) is because that...

So God really is some asshole who's fucking with our brains? Awesome.

I already provided a practical refutation. A part of arrow's theorem is ordinality... Under utilitarianism you can get all the numbers from each individual person as to how happy they feel they would be, thus 'solving' the problem. How so?