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[quote who="Big Fat Daddy" reply="8" id="2220826"] As usual, I am at a loss to understand this kind of response. The thread is a salute to fallen brothers-in-arms who have died in the service of their country. [/quote] It's simple. While there are certainly troops who fight with dignity and honour, there are also troops who are inhumane and sadistic, and I tire of mindless worship of the military. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lEMasOiG_s

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yRzoOB1C4 Thanks America!

Reply to Wisdom of the Past in Misc Stardock Forums

I'm getting busier and busier lately and have to start writing a research paper on vibrio vulnificus, a flesh eating bacteria, this weekend, so my replies are going to be less and less frequent. Just a heads up. Yes, there is a contradiction about marrying unbelievers. The very first one says go for it; the second says not to. "If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believe

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Ok, so hold on. When the bible says God hardened a heart, what it REALLY meant is the omnipotent God just didn't soften a heart because it had been too much? Sssssssorry but if you're going to dance around a semantic like that (and in fact, create your own interpretation) then I think it shows you've run out of ammo. Considering that God had interfered with mankind plenty prior to that, I don't see why it's an issue. What if we interpret such and such a passage this way, or that way, jus

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Then as you're unwilling to answer any questions, and also repeatedly play the "you just aren't interpreting it right" card over and over again, I'll simply have to assume that you have no valid arguments to make. All that can be concluded is that your religion, by your own admissions, preaches elitism, division and mercilessness, all justified because an intentionally flawed creation had the nerve to be flawed. Good day, Lulapilgrim. May you live your life surrounded by people j

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If god truly loved his creations he would not put them into a situation where their freedom is tied down because if they behave any way other than what he specifically wants they suffer forever. That's as much free will as being whipped if you do something your owner doesn't like. But then slavery is fine in the bible, so what else could be expected from your god? Swine flu really is not a concern for first world nations due to a fantastic thing called "medical science". Of 5000 confi

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Exodus 10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: This is just one of many passages saying God was the one who hardened the heart of Pharaoh. There are three passages that say Pharaoh was the one, and one of them isn't even in Exodus; it's retrospective in Samuel. There are eleven passages, all in Exodus, that say your god did it, most of them in past

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I have honestly read it, and it just comes off as the story of a deity drunk with power. So why does God harden pharaohs heart? For the purpose of visiting more atrocities on people? I'll take your "You just aren't reading it right" as a concession that you really have no counter-argument, because if you cannot give a legitimate, moral reason for these things, it obviously doesn't synch with your world view, so you just toss out the "well you aren't reading it right". I ask again - ho

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Exodus 10:20 (NIV): But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let the Israelites go. Exodus 10:20 (KJV): But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go. Exodus 10:20 (New American Standard Bible): But the LORD hardened Pharoah's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go. You may as well read through Exodus 4:21-11:10 again. So which is it?

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Ok, gonna call troll on this one. I can't believe a person would be unable to see the circular logic in saying "this church is infallible, because their book said they granted infallibility", particularly while dropping points they have been called to respond to repeatedly. Your god may apparently cause charism, but he didn't do such a good job with charisma or intellect.

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Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha. Hookay, let's take it from the top. The fact that you're already going on about some sort of "immediate" revelation upon reading the bible that it's "the truth" speaks very poorly of it. If you are correct, then your god truly is a vindictive sort for his punishment of his creations for flaws he created in them, when they did not willingly ask for any of this - again you have ignored the problems which I asked about earlier. And yes, your church and its

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Do you seriously not understand the circular logic you're using in arguing "this book is right because this same book says it is right" Additionally, while it is true that Native Americans had wars between themselves, if you seriously cannot comprehend how that was different compared to what Europeans did to them then I'm not quite sure what to say. Moving on to your very, very tired argument about the watchmaker, aside from the fact that we've outright witnessed evolution taking plac

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Facelord, settle down. You're coming off as rabid. Religion can indeed do many terrible things, but as a cultural factor it's one that won't be going away any time soon, and again, not everyone with a religion is some sort of hateful nutball. Given your age, yes, you are lacking maturity. Make like Bill & Ted and Be Excellent unto one another. Judge them not by their professed beliefs, but by their acts. Lulapilgrim, there's zero proof of god. Why am I to a

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I don't think you got what I was actually saying.

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I apologize for the double post, but edit is not working correctly. You still ignored my questions about why god would apparently see fit to punish the innocent along with the guilty, or why the US is apparently his current favoured nation. Why, if god made every single human on earth as you believe, does he play favourites? Are they not all his children? Would he not, in his omnipotence and omnipresence, understand why we make the decisions we do? Is it not immoral to punish a flawed

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Of course there are rules in your religion. Ten Commandments, etc. In your religion unless the rules are followed, for whatever reason, you are condemned to a pit of eternal torment. As for the Matthew mixup, yes, you're correct. I did misread; it's Luke 6:37, not Matthew. As for why an atheist references the bible, why wouldn't I be referencing the bible when discussing with a Christian? It's completely relevant to your beliefs, isn't it? Am I somehow forbidden from re

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Taking away guns and trying to convince your children that guns don't exist won't stop the violence in the United States. If someone can't shoot you with a gun they will shoot you with a knife, if you take away the knife they will shoot you with a truncheon, and so on until people are being shot in the streets with pillows and kittens.

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You know that a lot of books come out as hardcovers first, with a softcover release several months later right?

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Cool story bro.

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Asimov and Sagan didn't seem very miserable at all, but go on, feel free to paint us all with one brush-stroke because you can't fathom our choices. Though now that you mention it, why is the USA inherently the nation of "God"? From whence did this proclamation come? Why would God specifically favour one group of people over another based solely on their geographic birthplace? Why are difficult times inherently caused by God angry at people who don't obey him? W