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@GnosticChristianBishop
Nature implies that there is a God for you, and it is you.
The future of Intelligent Man is Gnostic Christianity. This will lead to the dying out of Worm Man.
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The USA has a staggering figure of 3,204 serial killers. That is approximately 19 times more serial killers than the next country on list. Thank God the USA is Christian.
As a serial killer all you have to do is confess your sins and you go right to Heaven.
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@Polytheist-Witch
No, since I'm Trump's age, I come her to talk To young girls, you know, 50 to 60 year olds.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Well, they did say Mary was a 14 year old virgin.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Wait a minute, I never said that I liked Trump's best friend Jeffery Epstein.
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The only theists I know are on the internet. I am old enough that both of my parents are dead and the rest of the family and neighbors have an IQ over 110.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Well, one big freaking pile of illiterate, mentally ill, mentally incompetent human beings did invent gods.
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I hear you, as Christian's we shouldn't let poor people into our country. We should only let in Slovenian strippers on Einstein visa's.
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@Wylted
Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are supposed to derive from some source other than observation of the world—e.g., from reason alone. In other words, ontological arguments are arguments from what are typically alleged to be none but analytic, a priori and necessary premises to the conclusion that God exists.
In more recent times, Kurt Gödel, Charles Hartshorne, Norman Malcolm and Alvin Plantinga have all presented much-discussed ontological arguments which bear interesting connections to the earlier arguments of St. Anselm, Descartes and Leibniz. Critiques of ontological arguments begin with Gaunilo, a contemporary of St. Anselm. Perhaps the best known criticisms of ontological arguments are due to Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason. Most famously, Kant claims that ontological arguments are spoiled by their reliance upon the implicit assumption that “existence” is a real predicate.
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And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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Poly, please answer this simple question. If God made Adam and Eve out of dust, why did he have to impregnate a 14 year old virgin to get his son?
Greek God-human breeding was actually very, very common in Greek myth. Zeus and the other Olympians were constantly and permanently knocking up princesses, queens, nymphs, sirens, lesser goddesses, warrior women and just plain fair maidens who bathed in the pool with their handmaidens. And the handmaidens, too, sometimes. Zeus even managed to impregnate mortal women when he was a swan or a bull.
See how brain lesions in the religious mind work?
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@Polytheist-Witch
So you are saying God is like Zeus?
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@Athias
So you are saying God has a thing for 14 year old girls ?
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@Athias
If God could create Man out of dust, why did he have to rape Mary to create Jesus?
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The first American to die of the Omicron variant was an unvaccinated Texas man who had previously caught COVID-19.
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President Trump had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
I can see why Christian's love Trump. He is just like Jesus.
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It's actually, Atheist continue to admit they are only here to support evolution for their own enjoyment.
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@n8nrgmi
1. inexplicable healings occur to theists who pray, but we have no such evidence for atheists,
Put a fork in it, my friend, You’re done. You’ve got THOUSANDS of years of claims, and not a shred of evidence or proof. In the real world, that amounts to “Someone made some shit up a long time ago, and you’re all so gullible that even now you still buy into it.” Let it end.
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@ethang5
Yet this "work of primitive men" remains unsurpassed in human history as a work magnificently unequalled literature?
Most literature is fictional at some level, but fictionality is not a defining trait of literature. A piece of writing is literary whenever authors employ literary techniques, regardless of whether they record what really happened or made it up.
Although the 19 books contained within this text were included in the Holy Bible for thousands of years, they were removed a little over 200 years ago. Its now time to reclaim these treasured scriptures and get further insight into God's word. This book contains: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, The Book of Tobit, The Book of Susanna, Additions to Esther, The Book of Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, The Epistle of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Manasses, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Book of Enoch, Book of Jubilees, Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Mary. It also includes the ancient Hebrew alphabet with common Hebrew words as a study source.
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@Amoranemix
Extremely well stated. This Universe simulation is just an intelligence test to see who will go to the next level.
Congratulations, you will be going to the next level, as will Elon Musk.
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Almost a quarter of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults (23%), more than three times the share of children around the world who do so (7%). The study, which analyzed how people’s living arrangements differ by religion, also found that U.S. children from Christian and religiously unaffiliated families are about equally likely to live in this type of arrangement.
In comparison, 3% of children in China, 4% of children in Nigeria and 5% of children in India live in single-parent households. In neighboring Canada, the share is 15%.
In comparison, 3% of children in China, 4% of children in Nigeria and 5% of children in India live in single-parent households. In neighboring Canada, the share is 15%.
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@Stephen
Sorry Stephen, I tried to delete my comment like we talked about so we could make fun of her having dementia, but for some reason I couldn't do it.
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According to the United Nations' "Determinants and Consequences of Population Trends," modern Homo sapiens appeared about 50,000 B.C. At the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the world's population was around 5 million. By 1 A.D., the population had reached 300 million, which indicates a growth rate of 0.0512% per year. Life expectancy at birth averaged 10 years for most of human history. The birth rate would have to be about 80 per 1000 just for the species to survive. Infant mortality in the early days of human life would be high, probably 500 infant deaths per 1000.
Isn't this evidence for Poor Design?
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Parents who have a child today will spend, on average, $284,570 by the time the baby turns 18, according to Department of Agriculture (USDA) data.
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@Bones
I like the comment by Uriah Christensen.
I actually counter the ontological argument by using their argument against their God's existence. The greatest possible being must also be the most impressive being. It is more impressive to complete a task when one is handicapped; and the more handicapped one is, the more impressed. So, the most impressive being must also have the greatest handicap. The greatest handicap is non-existence. So, the greatest possible being (aka god) must be non-existent.
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There is no scientific evidence indicating that God exists. We all know that. For example:
- God has never left any physical evidence of his existence on earth.
- None of Jesus' "miracles" left any physical evidence either.
- God has never spoken to modern man, for example by taking over all the television stations and broadcasting a rational message to everyone.
- The resurrected Jesus has never appeared to anyone.
- The Bible we have is provably incorrect and is obviously the work of primitive men rather than God.
- When we analyze prayer with statistics, we find no evidence that God is "answering prayers."
- Huge, amazing atrocities like the Holocaust and AIDS occur without any response from God.
- And so on…
Let's agree that there is no empirical evidence showing that God exists. And there should be evidence .
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Jeffrey Dahmer was convicted of unspeakable acts of perversion and cannibalism that shocked the nation. He was murdered in prison, but not before he had professed faith in Jesus Christ as his Savior.
Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer executed for his crimes. But before he died, he also claimed faith and forgiveness in Christ.
I recently read of a murderer executed in Texas. The newspaper reported his last words before the lethal injection. It sounded like a church testimonial as he praised God for his new-found salvation in Christ and expressed his assurance of going to heaven.
Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer executed for his crimes. But before he died, he also claimed faith and forgiveness in Christ.
I recently read of a murderer executed in Texas. The newspaper reported his last words before the lethal injection. It sounded like a church testimonial as he praised God for his new-found salvation in Christ and expressed his assurance of going to heaven.
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See: Did Christianity lead to schizophrenia? Psychosis, psychology and self reference
Roland Littlewood
University College London
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Both geographically and historically, schizophrenia may have emerged from a psychosis that was more florid, affective, labile, shorter lived and with a better prognosis. It is conjectured that this has occurred with a reflexive self-consciousness in Western and globalising societies, a development whose roots lie in Christianity. Every theology also presents a psychology. Six novel aspects of Christianity may be significant for the emergence of schizophrenia—an omniscient deity, a decontexualised self, ambiguous agency, a downplaying of immediate sensory data, and a scrutiny of the self and its reconstitution in conversion.
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My favorite God is Zeus. Zeus was known for having children with any mortal woman who caught his eye. OMG. was Zeus a Trump?
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In the future Man will be taking about Atom and EV, not Adam and Eve.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Actually it's: The only interest is spouting logic at theists. It's what makes them special in their book.
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@Polytheist-Witch
Original sin is the Christian doctrine that holds that humans, through the fact of birth, inherit a tainted nature in need of regeneration and a proclivity to sinful conduct. The biblical bases for the belief are generally found in Genesis 3, in a line in psalm 51:5, and in Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 5:12-21.
Hence this topic being in the Religion forum.
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Don't forget that a Conman can make a lot of money by telling people that there is a God. Pastor Kenneth Copeland is worth $750 million.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
I guess Copeland laughs at that verse.
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Jesus Christ was circumcised as a Jew on the 8th day after his birth. Until 1960 the Catholic church celebrated the day as Circumcision Day. In medieval times the holy foreskin was worshipped in many European churches.
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@oromagi
Yes, given what we know about COVID-19 so far, many scientits believe that the virus that causes COVID-19 will likely settle into endemic patterns of transmission. But our inability to eradicate the virus does not mean that all hope is lost.
Our post-pandemic future will heavily depend on how the virus evolves over the coming years. SARS-CoV-2 is a completely new human virus that is still adapting to its new host. Over time, we may see the virus become less pathogenic, similar to the four coronaviruses that cause the common cold, which represent little more than a seasonal nuisance.
Global vaccination programs will have the greatest impact on curbing new cases of the disease. However, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine campaign so far has touched only a small percentage of people on the planet. In addition, breakthrough infections in vaccinated people still occur because no vaccine is 100% effective. This means that booster shots will likely be needed to maximize vaccine-induced protection against infection.
With global virus surveillance and the speed at which safe and effective vaccines have been developed, we are well poised to tackle the ever-evolving target that is SARS-CoV-2. Influenza is endemic and evolves quickly, but seasonal vaccination enables life to go on as normal. We can expect the same for SARS-CoV-2 – eventually.
Our post-pandemic future will heavily depend on how the virus evolves over the coming years. SARS-CoV-2 is a completely new human virus that is still adapting to its new host. Over time, we may see the virus become less pathogenic, similar to the four coronaviruses that cause the common cold, which represent little more than a seasonal nuisance.
Global vaccination programs will have the greatest impact on curbing new cases of the disease. However, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine campaign so far has touched only a small percentage of people on the planet. In addition, breakthrough infections in vaccinated people still occur because no vaccine is 100% effective. This means that booster shots will likely be needed to maximize vaccine-induced protection against infection.
With global virus surveillance and the speed at which safe and effective vaccines have been developed, we are well poised to tackle the ever-evolving target that is SARS-CoV-2. Influenza is endemic and evolves quickly, but seasonal vaccination enables life to go on as normal. We can expect the same for SARS-CoV-2 – eventually.
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@Stephen
On 3 January 1954, a year and three and a half months before his death, Albert Einstein (my third cousin) wrote: "The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this. [...] For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. [...] I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them [the Jewish people].
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@Fruit_Inspector
Yes, Herd immunity also can be reached when enough people have been vaccinated against a disease and have developed protective antibodies against future infection. Unlike the natural infection method, vaccines create immunity without causing illness or resulting complications. Using the concept of herd immunity, vaccines have successfully controlled contagious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rubella and many others.
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@Fruit_Inspector
What did you think of the smallpox vaccine? It was successfully used to eradicate smallpox from the human population. Routine vaccination of the American public against smallpox stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States. During the 20th century, it is estimated that smallpox was responsible for 300–500 million deaths. In the early 1950s an estimated 50 million cases of smallpox occurred in the world each year.
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@zedvictor4
The fact that we keep transferring said data, is a testament to human fallibility.
Yes, it is Worm Man's fallibility.
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Why Is Opium so Important To The User ?
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The Bible says very clearly, that God gave wine to “gladden the heart of man (Psalm 104:15).”
He actually did it to cover his poor design.
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Frederick Trump, the president's grandfather, became one of the first people to die during the first wave of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 .
I bet he would have liked to have a vaccine for it like they have now.
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It is really quite simple. Theists believe in something there is no proof of. Atheists do not beleve in something there is no proof of.
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@rosends
but I wonder what you mean by "Head butting walls".
I think this is what Zed was refering to: MK Bezalel Smotrich, who leads the far-right Religious Zionism party, said "We 'obsessively bang our heads against the wall' when it comes to a Palestinian state, when it comes to the Regulation Law and the United Jerusalem Law, and when it comes to many other things," Smotrich said. "There's no reason or justification for not banging our heads into the wall for the moral and ethical values which are so significant and integral to the religious community, the State of Israel, and Israel's future."
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@Discipulus_Didicit
The Foucault Method:
- The first observation is made when the rotating mirror is not rotating. Light from a He-Ne laser is reflected from the rotating mirror and focused onto the fixed mirror. The fixed mirror reflects the image back onto the rotating mirror, which in turn reflects the light back through the lenses to reform the image, where it can be observed with the microscope.
- The second observation is made when the rotating mirror is rotating. Since it takes a finite amount of time for the light to traverse the distance between the fixed and rotating mirrors, the rotating mirror is in a slightly different position when the light returns after reflecting off the fixed mirror. This produces a displacement, which can be measured with the microscope.
- The displacement between the first and second observations is proportional to the transit time of the light to the angular velocity of the rotating mirror. With a very straightforward calculation, the speed of light can be calculated.
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Can you design an experiment that can prove the statement "Light moves at a constant speed"?
Yes, the most famous of these was the Michaelson-Morley experiment, which showed that the speed of light did not vary with direction or velocity by using the earth's own motion and rotation.
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