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Do you ever wish there were more than a few challenging theistic debaters?
Do you ever
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ANY of the thousands of "gods" proposed, imagined, worshiped, loved, feared, and/or fought over by humans MAY exist -- awaiting verifiable evidence
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Post #2Yes to all? I wish there were any challenging theistic debaters on the planet, there just aren't any. What we're left with are fanatics who insist on believing in a thing because it is emotionally comforting to believe in that thing, you never find theists who came to their beliefs via rational, intellectual, evidence-based reasons. That would impress me. What we see now doesn't.Zzyzx wrote: .
Do you ever wonder about the chronological and mental age of some members?
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Do you ever wish there were more than a few challenging theistic debaters?
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Post #3Cephus wrote:Yes to all? I wish there were any challenging theistic debaters on the planet, there just aren't any. What we're left with are fanatics who insist on believing in a thing because it is emotionally comforting to believe in that thing, you never find theists who came to their beliefs via rational, intellectual, evidence-based reasons. That would impress me. What we see now doesn't.Zzyzx wrote: .
Do you ever wonder about the chronological and mental age of some members?
Do you ever feel as though you are "teaching elementary school" or answering very elementary "arguments" in some of the threads?
Do you ever wish there were more than a few challenging theistic debaters?
I think you are painting with too broad a brush. However, that might be true of the conservative types.. but I find that is true of the conservative mindset, regardless of religion or not in general.
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Post #4I find there to be nothing worthwhile in *ANY* apologetic, all of it is based on wishful thinking and emotional desire. That's all theism is, no matter what kind of theism you're talking about. Nobody has any actual evidence, they just make claims and wave their arms around, trying to convince people that they know what they're talking about. I can't think of the last time I encountered a theist who wasn't engaged in logical fallacies and empty rhetoric.Goat wrote:Cephus wrote:Yes to all? I wish there were any challenging theistic debaters on the planet, there just aren't any. What we're left with are fanatics who insist on believing in a thing because it is emotionally comforting to believe in that thing, you never find theists who came to their beliefs via rational, intellectual, evidence-based reasons. That would impress me. What we see now doesn't.Zzyzx wrote: .
Do you ever wonder about the chronological and mental age of some members?
Do you ever feel as though you are "teaching elementary school" or answering very elementary "arguments" in some of the threads?
Do you ever wish there were more than a few challenging theistic debaters?
I think you are painting with too broad a brush. However, that might be true of the conservative types.. but I find that is true of the conservative mindset, regardless of religion or not in general.
That's not a broad brush, that's reality.
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There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide the world that cannot be achieved more rationally through entirely secular means.
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There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide the world that cannot be achieved more rationally through entirely secular means.