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seebs · 10-10-2006, 06:59 AM

I have had a couple of posts deleted for flaming, but mostly I get in trouble for preaching too much. In a forum mostly run by and for people who have a nice tame God that hates gays and brown people, but is nice to all of the people we know, it's very upsetting to see posts arguing that torturing people is bad even if they're mean, or that maybe God doesn't really need us all to care that much about other peoples' wee-wees.

I had a post once on the topic of why "love" is not something that is, or should be, primarily driven by the question of whether or not you "deserve" to be loved, which was deleted by a staff member on the grounds that it had nothing to do with apologetics. I am not making this up.

angela2 · 10-10-2006, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by EarlOfLade

Define metaphysical naturalism..

Do you mean spirits and similar? Which btw is exactly the same as god. Thoughts inside your brain and does not exist in reality.

Different name, same mumbo-jumbo....

Look it up. Psst. It's the foundational philosophy of this board. You probably just offended a bunch of atheists.

angela2 · 10-10-2006, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by seebs

BTW, Jobar, I still consider myself an agnostic theist. I have yet to be convinced that this is a question on which knowledge is possible.

Oddly, although I'm certainly "liberal" in many ways, my positions on a number of issues are much more orthodox than those of most of the fundamentalist sorts. I'm sorta old-school.

But you're sure you're not an atheist?
:rolling:

FatherMithras · 10-10-2006, 09:57 AM

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But you're sure you're not an atheist? (ROFL face)

What on earth in that post made you think he's an atheist?

angela2 · 10-10-2006, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by FatherMithras

What on earth in that post made you think he's an atheist?

That's funny. I was referring to a much earlier post by someone else.

seebs · 10-10-2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by FatherMithras

What on earth in that post made you think he's an atheist?

It was a reference to Soul Invictus's earlier (JOKING) post about how I'm obviously really an atheist.

It's funny!

Nismo · 10-14-2006, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by jgibson000

And you think that's the way to get them to listen to and/or to consider what you have to say? Or is bashing them, rather than changing their minds or at least getting them to see that your point of view is reasonable and worthy of consideration, all you are really interested in?

JG

The way I see it, if they are being condenscending towards you, then obviously they already have their minds made up. How do you reason with someone who knows everything? I'm not going to waste my time talking to people like that.

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10-10-2006, 06:59 AM	#111
seebs Contributor Join Date: May 2002 Location: Saint Paul, MN Posts: 24,524	I have had a couple of posts deleted for flaming, but mostly I get in trouble for preaching too much. In a forum mostly run by and for people who have a nice tame God that hates gays and brown people, but is nice to all of the people we know, it's very upsetting to see posts arguing that torturing people is bad even if they're mean, or that maybe God doesn't really need us all to care that much about other peoples' wee-wees. I had a post once on the topic of why "love" is not something that is, or should be, primarily driven by the question of whether or not you "deserve" to be loved, which was deleted by a staff member on the grounds that it had nothing to do with apologetics. I am not making this up.

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