Posted on 04/19/2016 8:52:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We can't even define it completely.
“I believed in Santa Claus and the easter bunny when I was 4.
God is the same.”
That was lost on lightweights like Newton and Pascal. A shame they didn’t possess your incisive intellectual powers.
Jews and Christians, yes; Muslims, no.
Duhh...'cause he WAS seeing a devil?
imagine if newton didn’t live without the risks of being exposed as a skeptic and burned as a witch. we’d have been space faring between stars 200 years ago
No.
“imagine if newton didn’t live without the risks of being exposed as a skeptic and burned as a witch. “
You mean like the skeptic Voltaire, who lived at the same time and yet mysteriously lived a long and irreligious life? I guess no one could find the matches.
But then skepticism has absolutely nothing to do with Newton anyway. Newton had a fascination with Christian prophecy and fully half of his extensive writings deal with the subject.
One thing I enjoy about amateur atheists is that they will say the stupidest things as long as it conforms to their prejudices.
and I was commenting on the article, not to you as such....
“The late, great Lawrence Auster used to call Dennis a confused liberal. And in fact Dennis used to correct callers who referred to him as a conservative- he is and was a ‘60s RFK liberal. People seem to conflate religious observance with conservatism more than is warranted.”
You have no idea what your talking about. It’s funny.
Oh yeah? Well I heard it from Dennis himself on more than one occasion, but what would he know compared to you.
“One thing I enjoy about amateur atheists is that they will say the stupidest things as long as it conforms to their prejudices.’
I take it you were a fan of Torquemada.
Or the god that has no proof.
Religious people say and believe the most idiotic of things, like condoning and approving of unjust human sacrifice in order to get into a place they must first admit that they shouldn’t go to begin with, and think that god is such an idiot they can fool him by wearing a jesus-skin suit.
BUT the they claim jesus only was dead for a day or two and so really there wasn’t a sacrifice only a temporary inconvenience.
1 John 2:22-23 NABRE http://bible.com/463/1jn.2.22-23.NABRE
” I take it you were a fan of Torquemada.”
Unsurprisingly, you are wrong again.
Guessing is no substitute for knowledge, despite your obvious preference for it.
Guessing is no substitute for knowledge, despite your obvious preference for it.”
faith=guessing
knowledge= proof
Exactly. Those who reject the Lord can not possibly worship the Lord.
How about a 3rd option? One that’s much cheaper....keep them out.
Let me clarify.
By quarantine I mean keeping ALL the moslems locked into the moslem countries. A moslem should NEVER be allowed out of the Mideast (or possibly Indonesia). No copy of the Koran should be allowed to exist in the free world. I'd go so far as to cut off all trade and communication with moslem countries.
By eradication I mean that every moslem (men, women, children, dogs, pigs camels, the whole nine yeards!) must be killed. Every copy of the koran destroyed. wipe it from mankind's history.
your talk of “quarantining” and “eradicating” has been used by neo-cons and liberal interventionists as an excuse to send lots of troops and money around the world
They have NEVER considered either quarantine (why are there still moslems in the west if they had?) or eradication (why are there still moslems at all?)
If Europe doesn’t want to keep them out, then let them fall...but don’t waste one dime subsidizing their defense costs.
Europe is not my problem. If they want to fall to the plague then let them. However the moment a nuclear country becomes moslem dominated we would have to carpet nuke them for our own security.
What we have is an infectious plague (islam) that is worse than rabies. enabling it's carriers to live and spread is a crime against God and humanity.
“That is one huge leap to be made.”
It’s not that huge. The politics of that region have been dominated by western powers since before WW I. As for the oil purchases....a very small number are made extremely rich. The oligarchies over there have been largely established and funded by western powers. If the same were happening here, there would be the same resentment. One need only take the example of someone like George Soros and multiply it many fold to imagine the reaction.
But that’s neither here nor there. The bottom line is that Islamic culture is not one that I want to live in/under. To prevent the spread of that culture we need immigration controls.
Next, we need to stop subsidizing the security of European nations that are hell bent on proving how intellectually and morally superior they are for embracing multiculturalism.
Lastly, the biggest enemy to religious liberty (and really all the liberties that I care about) is the secular Left...not Islam.
“By eradication I mean that every moslem (men, women, children, dogs, pigs camels, the whole nine yeards!) must be killed. Every copy of the koran destroyed. wipe it from mankind’s history.”
Let’s stick to options that are at least reasonably feasible. Your solution would turn the whole world against us, since it’s basically a version of the “Final Solution”.
A shame that you know so little about either.
But seeing as there isn’t a comic book series on epistemology it’s not like you would have blundered across it in your extensive forays into deep thinking.
How many Gods are there???
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