That's terrifying, that you're defending a genocide even the most depraved sadist could only hope to dream of. Yeah, I'm absolutely more moral than your god. Infinite punishment for finite crimes is really dickish.
I see a crapton of christian posts, even ones with zero relation to Trump, here all the time. I've yet to see a single atheist post.
You're a mind reader now?
You said he'd try to convince me, I'm not convinced.
Nope, explain.
That transubstantiation stuff is pretty blood-magicky. Not sure why an eternal all-knowing god would need to change his mind on blood magic though.
If it was there at the beginning of time, then it's "always existed", no?
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?
It talks about how the big bang is the beginning of time. "Before" then becomes an incoherent concept.
Why is your interpretation more valid than mine? And you'd think an all-powerful being would at least be able to inspire a text that's a lot more convincing.
When the shepherd gets hungry, he eats some fresh mutton.
https://books.google.com/books?id=fp9wrkMYHvMC&pg=PA211
This was widely accepted enough to make it to the citations on wikipedia, so that's looking pretty good.
Man, I wish I had your faith in that assertion.
If he tried to maintain my legitimate belief he failed.
He fucked that up pretty bad when I deconverted then, huh?
Man, this divinely-inspired work is really full of multiple conflicting interpretations, huh?
That is consistent with the big bang theory, if that's what you're referring to as the theory. It's about the rapid expansion of a singularity, not the universe coming into existence from nothing. Where'd the singularity come from, then, is your problem. It's more reasonable to assume this singularity always existed, as reasonably as "always" is in such a state, than to say the singularity was made by a singularity-maker that's always existed.
Yeah, even ignoring the "which religion" part, would your all-knowing god simply not care that I was faking belief simply for selfish reasons?
Ah, the old Pascal's wager, is it? I hope you spend your time begging Allah for forgiveness for being an infidel.
Whatever, it's not for me, but it doesn't impact their scientific contributions at all.
He would, but he also reprimanded the crowd for calling people sinners when they were all sinners themselves.
Or, even better, when I die my consciousness ends up in the same state it was before I was born. Nonexistent.