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whatthehey

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12. Depends on which definition you like
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 03:13 PM
Dec 2015

I'm certainly and unabashedly antagonistic to the different opinion that humans can know what a non-contingent unverifiable transcendent deity wants and should enact that into our laws and social norms. What's more I'm downright prejudiced against those who hold that opinion, specifically that I pre-judge them to be gullible and irrational at best.

But if person A just feels the need to believe that there is some kind of divine originating force, either because they have bought the medieval 5 proofs nonsense or because they have internalized the overextension of the ex nihilo concept, then I have no prejudice against that belief, whjether they call it God or Allah or Jesus or Brahma. I have no prejudice against them getting together in dressy clothes in a nice building once a week to hypothesize about it. I get extreme prejudice-y when they start telling the rest of us we should follow their musings about what their ineffable pal wants however.

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Theists have long sought a way to counter atheist arguments. trotsky Dec 2015 #1
For theists that's exactly what it is. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #2
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My personal fav: Act_of_Reparation Dec 2015 #7
I just posted the same picture in a thread the other day! beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #8
Kinda depends on which definition you choose to apply MindPilot Dec 2015 #11
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Depends on which definition you like whatthehey Dec 2015 #12
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Well, they get a hide Curmudgeoness Dec 2015 #14
One got away with calling us assholes today. beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #18
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