Conservallectual

Yes

Okay, why am I a pseudo-Christian? I read my bible every day and believe all these tenets:

* God is real and he created the world in 6 days, and rested on the 7th

* Christ is the son of God

* Christ was born of a virgin

* Christ died for our sins

* Christ came back to life 3 days later

* The bible is the word of God

* God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent

* Salvation through faith alone

* God will judge my afterlife

Where exactly did I commit heresy?

No!!! Economies cannot exist without private property. Communism will always fail! Capitalism has always won. It is history. Every government labeled "communist" has failed, and don't give me the "BuT iT wAsN't ReAl CoMmUnIsM!!" because it was. Just because the system you like fails in a country, doesn't mean that country didn't practice the "true" version of it. 

Communism is bull****

No, 'true' communism has been tried. Cuba, North Korea, the soviet union, Maoist China, and Vietnam, and etc. have all abolished private property, abolished religion, abolished individualism, etc. The results? 

Cuba, the commie country I am most familiar with still uses horse & buggy as a regular form of transportation, there is no wifi for the unaffiliated(except in parks so you can burn in the sun) the air conditioners available only work for 1 room, also there is no fast food(heck there isn't even much food, the markets are empty). Also you want the cool gadgets from the US? Well you must import them. Also the money is worthless, they use US dollars instead.

PLEASE ENLIST ME!!!!

Woah, kid, I was raised catholic. Even though I have deviated a bit to Evangelicalism(not fully, I still attend mass) - nobody in my family has mistreated or abandoned me like a cult(Like the watchtower) does. They all still love me dearly and I love them as well

A cult believes that only members of its group get into nirvana, get saved, ascend - or whatever the heck they believe. Pope Francis said that atheists can go to heaven - even if I believe otherwise. www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/05/29/187009384/Pope-Francis-Even-Atheists-Can-Be-Redeemed#:~:text=Pope%20Francis%3A%20Even%20Atheists%20Can%20Be%20Redeemed%20%3A%20Parallels%20%3A%20NPR&text=Pope%20Francis%3A%20Even%20Atheists%20Can%20Be%20Redeemed%20%3A%20Parallels%20After%20the,this%20was%20not%20the%20case.

A cult demands its followers to not question its leader. Some priests denounced the current pope as a heretic.www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-denounced-heretic-and-accused-1412580

Does this resemble a cult to you?

Sure in the medieval era, the church may have been more cultic, but that is no longer the case.

Woah, woah, woah kid. Even if a person is evil, that person's afterlife is for God's to judge, not us. 

None. Evidence shows that devout Christians have better mental health than less religious people.

It had to come intelligently. "Abiogenesis" does not exist, we have never witnessed it in either nature or in a lab. We may have made a few "life particles" but:

No, you are wrong. The old testament isn't "s**t" according to new testament authors, you have no scripture from the 66 book bible to support this claim.

Of course we don't hate the lgbtq+ as people. We hate what they do - which is sin. God hates sin, God wants all of man to be with him and not sin. Why? Because following God is good for us. God has no need for us, but we need him. 

There are 2 kinds of evolution:

Microevolution: a smaller level of evolution which has been proven to exist

Macroevolution: A larger level of evolution which has not been proven to exist and the only supposed evidence that Scientists point to it is the really messy fossil record(which does not even support it either,  as new families just appear from nothing in it).

This discussion got real hot real quick (O_O)

No, evolution is change after many generations caused by a collection of beneficial mutations adding up.

No, Original sin is the nature of man, that's why there so much evil in the world. It is not punishment, nor is it a manipulation tactic, it is just a fact.

Secular humanism is a contradiction. Here's why(note: I am neither an atheist or a humanist) :

Humanism: puts humans at a prime moral/social/philosophical importance.

Atheism: there is no god, therefore there is no afterlife, therefore nothing you do or think matters at all. There is no moral standpoint, only what you like matters.

Here's the problem: In an atheist worldview, why do humans have to be more important than animals? Why aren't monkeys or rats of prime moral importance? Why of all the animals supposedly generated by blind natural processes do humans have to be of any major moral importance? After all, in atheistic worldview, a very good person who does good things like donating to charities, saving people, being kind to others, has the same fate as an evil man who kills everyone he doesn't like, steals whatever he wants, and has lots of hatred - when they both die, they completely disappear. This is the problem with every atheistic world view that claims to have a strong moral code - like communism. 

the title is not true in the slightest. If it was then we would all be rich

The title is true.

I  am a non-progressive.

are any of them formal?

I want to check out other cool formal debate websites to diversify into. Anyone know any. By formal debate I talk about the kinds of debates here on debate.org with rounds and votes and stuff.

Hah, I have awoken from my 100 year all-natural and eco friendly cryosleep iceberg(this is a joke and it never happened). I missed ya guys.

I know this is probably old news to you, but in case for those who don't know, debate.org has been closed. This reminds me of when vine closed, the website exists, but the only page is a farewell note.  For some there's sadness in this, for others there's a bit of joy, but I think we all predicted it. It's been anarchy for a time now. At least we can all remember the moments we had with it. At least Backwardseden has nowhere to go now, that swamp monster is in internet limbo.

R.I.P Debate.org - we all had to start somewhere, and here it was.

boy this thread got really popular fast.

Pronouns and gender ideology are the invention of a crazed madman named John Money. Gender cannot be truly changed. transitions are only superficial and do not modify chromosomes 

you are right kid. In fact liberals get the entire economy more wrong than the word wrong can express.

a joke is fine(:

please don't bring politics here. I know I am a conservative but this is a philosophical thread not a political one.

please note that I may start to give you doubts and questions. Do not worry, I am trying to use the Socratic method when doing this.

This is unreasonable

No, God has always existed. The universe did not. If the universe where to appear then God would exist because the universe needs a creator. Mindless substances don't make any information

For the universe to appear as "BOOM BANGA BANG" it would definitely need a cause for it's existence.

Everything that begins to exist needs a cause for it's beginning.

Also your comments read like a nutjob from R/atheism.

What about fictional universes and fictional multiverses - are they part of this definition of the universe?

My good sir this is not a definition and is more like a fact about the universe.

Ah yes, another woke trash heap.

there is nothing higher than Christianity. You better reason and question your new worldview really well to see if it is truly logical:

do you mean pantheism.

the answer to "is atheism more reasonable than theism?" is:

atheism is inherently illogical because a universe does not pop out of absolute nothing for no reason.

the name of this thread is true.

I thought this was a philosophical question that needed some attention. I want to see what you define what a universe is. 

I know this may seem unimportant but think about it. There are many questions inside this one question - such as:

* Are the worlds inside thoughts and dreams part of our universe or outside of it?

* Are fictional worlds part of our universe?

* Are numbers and abstract objects part of our universe?

* Do other universes exist?

* I can go on and on

here are some common definitions:

* All of time, space, and matter

* all of totality

* all of space

thank you

In the voting time section what does "not selected" do?

I like Debateart, it's much better moderated.

Let's agree, many of us started at debate.org. Am I right?

I agree with you but I don't visit debate.org much.

I bet you all know about Debate.org, and there's a reason you pick this site over debate.org, but here are mine:

* Debate.org has no moderation, there are no serious debates. A lot of the debates are about really disgusting/immoral topics and things that should not even be up for debate.

* The userbase is terrible. One particularly bad user is backwardseden(you know who I'm talking) this crazy, illiterate, child-in-a-man's-body ,atheist nutjob is the boogeyman of debate.org. I remember when I started debating online I was foolish enough to debate him. I made some reasonably sound arguments but he responded with pure ad hominems, insults, lies(like when he said he answered a point when he didn't), etc. I wasn't even being mean to him, I was trying to s how my respect. So I did as the bible says to "shake the dust off my shoes and leave." and a friendly user over there introduced by here.

* People don't even debate here, they just wanna attack opposition and troll them. And when they're about to lose they leave.

Redeeming qualities:

* I know that the website looks outdated to some of you, but I find the UI charming. This is mostly because I love skeuomorphism and other 2000s style designs.

Be free to state opinions. 

The example I gave was just to prove my idea in action, not trying to prove wether or not God exists . I am not going to answer this point because it is not important to my point. I 

what's an apatheist?

Then you're either an agnostic or a deist.

my method is supposed to be anti-empiricism/scientism

An example of my razor in work: how do we prove god exists?

first we will examine it with the scientific method - nope, this is a metaphysical claim

secondly we examine logic - kalam cosmological argument, yep we proved it.

The bible is full truth because:

1. It has really, really specific prophecies, all of which have been fulfilled or have yet to be fulfilled. 

2. Archaeology has proven the bible many times: https://www.gotquestions.org/archaeology-Bible.html

3. The oldest biblical manuscripts have very few differences between each other and when translated to modern English have almost NO differences between modern bibles.

4. Modern translators choose the oldest manuscripts available.

The scientific part is not meant for private opinions, but the philosophical part is.