So you think you're God now?SirNitram wrote:Alright. My power forever changes the nature of reality itself, ergo I too am perfect and beyond morality. Therefore, what I say is right and you are a dipshit.
Hmmm... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
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So you think you're God now?SirNitram wrote:Alright. My power forever changes the nature of reality itself, ergo I too am perfect and beyond morality. Therefore, what I say is right and you are a dipshit.
God may have committed acts which are immoral to us, but that doesn't make Him evil. As I have already stated numerous times, God is above morality and no mortal creature can judge Him.Thirdfain wrote:You have already conceded that God is a murderer, who has no morals. How is this NOT evil? How is this LOVE?
No, I'm not God. However, according to Visions perpetuated against Christians(Which, apparantly, is the basis of your religion), I am the Dreamer, The Source, the Remaker. I am He Who Heralds The Change, I am the one who prepares reality for what's next. The titles are amusing, but apparantly I'm the one whose going to remake the world in preparation for the next battle of Good and Evil. The return of magic into the world, warping of creatures into monsters, and propelling mankind into infinite space.EvilGrey wrote:So you think you're God now?SirNitram wrote:Alright. My power forever changes the nature of reality itself, ergo I too am perfect and beyond morality. Therefore, what I say is right and you are a dipshit.
Hmmm... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
I've elucidated upon this already. Go back and reread!Hobot wrote:How is God love if he has no qualms about commiting genocide, infanticide, and other hateful acts?EvilGrey wrote:Allah is a variation of the God concept, and a most vile one at that. God is love, not blind devotion and senseless ritual.So, explain to me: How is he perfect and infallible?
Better yet, how is he any different from the Muslim Allah, who is Perfect and Infallible?
Show me one strawman, show me one fallacious argument, even better show one claim made thus far that is not true.EvilGrey wrote: And finally, the only one here making unsubstantiated claims are the atheists, whose ignorance of religious philosophy causes them to throw strawmans and fallacious arguments at me.
Nope. You're just a delusional mortal with finite powers.SirNitram wrote:No, I'm not God. However, according to Visions perpetuated against Christians(Which, apparantly, is the basis of your religion), I am the Dreamer, The Source, the Remaker. I am He Who Heralds The Change, I am the one who prepares reality for what's next. The titles are amusing, but apparantly I'm the one whose going to remake the world in preparation for the next battle of Good and Evil. The return of magic into the world, warping of creatures into monsters, and propelling mankind into infinite space.EvilGrey wrote:So you think you're God now?SirNitram wrote:Alright. My power forever changes the nature of reality itself, ergo I too am perfect and beyond morality. Therefore, what I say is right and you are a dipshit.
Hmmm... http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
Which, I suppose, means I'm rather excused from everything, moral wise, according to your religion.
Nah, I embrace logic and Deism, not Christianity, so I can't be the delusional one in this conversasion.EvilGrey wrote: Nope. You're just a delusional mortal with finite powers.
excelent point man, if we cannot judge god to be evil, how can we judge him to be good, it must work both ways.Thirdfain wrote:Then how can God be love? If you can't be judged as evil, then you can't be judged as good, either.
How do you know that? The argument for the Black Mage's divinity is essentially the same as your argument for God, so why is one more true than the other?Nope. You're just a delusional mortal with finite powers.
On that note I should point out that the arguments for the divinity of Allah, Yaweh, Shiva, Buddha, Ameratsu, Odin and fuckin' Zeus are all the same as your argument for God. How come your particular set of tribal myths is true, while the other ancient, unproven, irrational tribal myths are wrong?How do you know that? The argument for the Black Mage's divinity is essentially the same as your argument for God, so why is one more true than the other?
Everything you've said is BS. You sound like someone who took an introductory course in philosophy in college and walked about a bitter, God-hating atheist.NapoleonGH wrote:Show me one strawman, show me one fallacious argument, even better show one claim made thus far that is not true.
The OT is no longer applicable to modern Christians. Quote from NT.Now please argue using reason and logic and try to think about your bible from an unbiased point of view, dont let your belief structure get in the way of your logic in this argument. Saying god cannot be immoral because he is above human morality, ok. What about human's following god's commands? God tells people not to kill, then he orders them to do so, in the OT rape is condoned, as is slavery, incest is condoned (who did Cain have kids with if not with a sister or is mother?).
Genesis does not explicitly state the manner in which God created everything.Now i really want to see you prove to us that evolution and literal bibilical interpretation are not completely incompatable, doesnt Genesis 1 and 2 get in the way?
Have you considered the possibility that God manifested a 13+ billion year-old universe only several thousand years ago?Also show us that the bible doesnt support young earth theory, see in the bible they give a detailed list of geneologies up until people who we have other ways of knowing when they were supposedly around like the potentially ficticious jesus christ, those geneologies can give us a very accurate way of knowing when things happened, and unless all those people lived for about a million years a piece then the bible suggests that the earth is considerably younger than it is.
I believe in the notion of religious pluralism.Thirdfain wrote:On that note I should point out that the arguments for the divinity of Allah, Yaweh, Shiva, Buddha, Ameratsu, Odin and fuckin' Zeus are all the same as your argument for God. How come your particular set of triable myths is true, while the other ancient, unproven, irrational tribal myths are wrong?How do you know that? The argument for the Black Mage's divinity is essentially the same as your argument for God, so why is one more true than the other?
Not really. Buddhism doesn't, nor does most of the Roman religions, nor do the tribal myths of Manx, etc etc etc...EvilGrey wrote:I believe in the notion of religious pluralism.Thirdfain wrote:On that note I should point out that the arguments for the divinity of Allah, Yaweh, Shiva, Buddha, Ameratsu, Odin and fuckin' Zeus are all the same as your argument for God. How come your particular set of triable myths is true, while the other ancient, unproven, irrational tribal myths are wrong?How do you know that? The argument for the Black Mage's divinity is essentially the same as your argument for God, so why is one more true than the other?
All lofty religions say the same thing: Believe in God or perish.
God is amoral, but in virtue of His perfection and infallibity we might as well consider Him to be good.NapoleonGH wrote:excelent point man, if we cannot judge god to be evil, how can we judge him to be good, it must work both ways.Thirdfain wrote:Then how can God be love? If you can't be judged as evil, then you can't be judged as good, either.
Bleh. I don't believe in the Bible literally, so I don't really care. However, I do know that Sir is a delusional nutcase because he isn't smart enough to be an enlightened man the likes of Jesus or Buddha.also evil, you claim nitram is delusional for claiming his own supernatural existance, but how is Jesus any different? doesnt he claim to have a supernatural existance without any substantiated proof beyond a few books writen decades after he was supposedly killed by people who never even met him?
I agree. All religeons are equally ridiculous.All lofty religions say the same thing: Believe in God or perish.
you know, I've been an Atheist since I was born. My folks aren't religeous, and never took me to church. They tought me to be nice to other kids, to not lie, cheat, or steal. They told me that everyone else was pretty much the same as I was, and that I should think about that before I insulted someone else. I am very happy with my life. I walk between classes every day, smiling in the spring sun. I flirt with pretty girls, exercise at the gym three days a week, chill with my friends, and play video games at night before I go to bed. I don't hate "God," anymore than I hate the bogeyman, or that creature from the movie "Aliens." I live a happy, contented, peaceful life, made all the sweeter by the knowledge that it is my one and only chance, and that every second I live is something I should cherish.Everything you've said is BS. You sound like someone who took an introductory course in philosophy in college and walked about a bitter, God-hating atheist.
I said lofty religions.SirNitram wrote:Not really. Buddhism doesn't, nor does most of the Roman religions, nor do the tribal myths of Manx, etc etc etc...EvilGrey wrote:I believe in the notion of religious pluralism.Thirdfain wrote: On that note I should point out that the arguments for the divinity of Allah, Yaweh, Shiva, Buddha, Ameratsu, Odin and fuckin' Zeus are all the same as your argument for God. How come your particular set of triable myths is true, while the other ancient, unproven, irrational tribal myths are wrong?
All lofty religions say the same thing: Believe in God or perish.
Good for you! There might be some hope for you yet!Thirdfain wrote:you know, I've been an Atheist since I was born. My folks aren't religeous, and never took me to church. They tought me to be nice to other kids, to not lie, cheat, or steal. They told me that everyone else was pretty much the same as I was, and that I should think about that before I insulted someone else. I am very happy with my life. I walk between classes every day, smiling in the spring sun. I flirt with pretty girls, exercise at the gym three days a week, chill with my friends, and play video games at night before I go to bed. I don't hate "God," anymore than I hate the bogeyman, or that creature from the movie "Aliens." I live a happy, contented, peaceful life, made all the sweeter by the knowledge that it is my one and only chance, and that every second I live is something I should cherish.
Bitter? not me!
So by Lofty you mean The Vast Minority Which Is Based Around Killing People.EvilGrey wrote: I said lofty religions.
Give me a fucking break. The majority of us do not buy into Nietzsche, believe it or not.Everything you've said is BS. You sound like someone who took an introductory course in philosophy in college and walked about a bitter, God-hating atheist.
Proof? Jesus was quite vague as to what in the OT was to be thrown out and what was to be kept. In any case, he certainly didn't stop Christians from using the OT to justify atrocities.The OT is no longer applicable to modern Christians. Quote from NT.
Have you ever heard of a scientific principle called Occam's Razor? Don't add unnecessary entities to the equation while trying to explain things, it says. God is an unnecessary entity; we do not know that he exists, and we can explain the existence of our universe without appealing to some supernatural being.Have you considered the possibility that God manifested a 13+ billion year-old universe only several thousand years ago?
Well, I don't approve of killing babies, violent hatred, and sending anyone who happens to disagree with me to suffer eternally, so I guess I am a lost cause.It doesn't mean you're a lost cause so long as your personal morality accords more or less with Christian morality.
you know, you never answered that question. Nice dodge, tex, but I think you are gonna have to take the bullet this time. Answer my question:Quote:
How do you know that? The argument for the Black Mage's divinity is essentially the same as your argument for God, so why is one more true than the other?
On that note I should point out that the arguments for the divinity of Allah, Yaweh, Shiva, Buddha, Ameratsu, Odin and fuckin' Zeus are all the same as your argument for God. How come your particular set of triable myths is true, while the other ancient, unproven, irrational tribal myths are wrong?
1. Nope been an atheist since i realized i didnt want to worship a mass murderer who has no proof of his existance. I am a logical empiricist, i need empirical evidence of something's existance before i accept it. God has no empirical evidence to prove his existance, thus why the hell should I bother to accept his existance?EvilGrey wrote: Everything you've said is BS. You sound like someone who took an introductory course in philosophy in college and walked about a bitter, God-hating atheist.
The OT is no longer applicable to modern Christians. Quote from NT.
Genesis does not explicitly state the manner in which God created everything.
Have you considered the possibility that God manifested a 13+ billion year-old universe only several thousand years ago?