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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,14:28

Quote (OgreMkV @ Mar. 25 2011,10:30)

Really, the religions all categorically called Christianity, should be called Paulism.

Exactly.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,15:14

Should we start a new thread..."Where's Kevin?"

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,15:28

Maybe he's at home alone?

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,18:32

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As far as this argument goes:

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To me, something like The God Delusion �is a really good challenge to think through what I believe in and why do I believe it, and ask myself the big questions. Essentially, if Dawkins is right, the very tool he used to form his argument, which is reason, we have absolutely no reason to trust the outcome of. So his argument has destroyed the tool he used to create the argument. So it�s nonsensical.

I've heard plenty of you mock it, but no one refute it.

Refute what? It doesn't even make sense.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,18:33

P.S. I have been busy and have not waded through all of these pages yet.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,18:41

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Quote (kevinmillerxi @ Mar. 24 2011,13:38)

As far as this argument goes:
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To me, something like The God Delusion �is a really good challenge to think through what I believe in and why do I believe it, and ask myself the big questions. Essentially, if Dawkins is right, the very tool he used to form his argument, which is reason, we have absolutely no reason to trust the outcome of. So his argument has destroyed the tool he used to create the argument. So it�s nonsensical.

I've heard plenty of you mock it, but no one refute it.

Refute what? It doesn't even make sense.

Something about refuting the Tooth Fairy and not using birth control...whatever.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,18:46

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My thought process: If what we refer to as reason is nothing but the product of chance + necessity, then the outcome of our reasoning process couldn't be anything more than the same--a product of chance plus necessity. Therefore, the things we refer to as thoughts and arguments are of no more consequence than than the process in our body that manufactures insulin. I'm not saying that's how I think. I just see it as the logical consequence of an atheistic point of view. Put another way: If chance + necessity are the only forces at work in the universe shaping life and everything else we see around us (another way of saying random mutation plus natural selection), you can't sneak anything else in and pretend that the thoughts in your brain are a product of anything that would give them significance beyond what you ascribe to them. So why give credence to them? Why feel passionately about them?

I guess my point is, I hear a lot of people espousing an atheistic point of view but very people actually living out the logical consequences of that point of view. Even Will Provine, who has done as good a job as any of following things through to their logical conclusions, does not seem to live according to his espoused worldview.

But I'm off topic. This thread is supposed to be about hell.

So, in other words, yellow + blue pigment does not equal green?

I refute it thus: the evidence shows otherwise.

You're sitting around navel-gazing.

Learn some facts.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,18:51

Quote (Kristine @ Mar. 25 2011,19:46)

Quote (kevinmillerxi @ Mar. 25 2011,00:52)

My thought process: If what we refer to as reason is nothing but the product of chance + necessity, then the outcome of our reasoning process couldn't be anything more than the same--a product of chance plus necessity. Therefore, the things we refer to as thoughts and arguments are of no more consequence than than the process in our body that manufactures insulin. I'm not saying that's how I think. I just see it as the logical consequence of an atheistic point of view. Put another way: If chance + necessity are the only forces at work in the universe shaping life and everything else we see around us (another way of saying random mutation plus natural selection), you can't sneak anything else in and pretend that the thoughts in your brain are a product of anything that would give them significance beyond what you ascribe to them. So why give credence to them? Why feel passionately about them?

I guess my point is, I hear a lot of people espousing an atheistic point of view but very people actually living out the logical consequences of that point of view. Even Will Provine, who has done as good a job as any of following things through to their logical conclusions, does not seem to live according to his espoused worldview.

But I'm off topic. This thread is supposed to be about hell.

So, in other words, yellow + blue pigment does not equal green?

I refute it thus: the evidence shows otherwise.

You're sitting around navel-gazing.

Learn some facts.

Facts would fuck with his total world view.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,20:02

Quote (khan @ Mar. 26 2011,00:51)

Quote (Kristine @ Mar. 25 2011,19:46)

Quote (kevinmillerxi @ Mar. 25 2011,00:52)

My thought process: If what we refer to as reason is nothing but the product of chance + necessity, then the outcome of our reasoning process couldn't be anything more than the same--a product of chance plus necessity. Therefore, the things we refer to as thoughts and arguments are of no more consequence than than the process in our body that manufactures insulin. I'm not saying that's how I think. I just see it as the logical consequence of an atheistic point of view. Put another way: If chance + necessity are the only forces at work in the universe shaping life and everything else we see around us (another way of saying random mutation plus natural selection), you can't sneak anything else in and pretend that the thoughts in your brain are a product of anything that would give them significance beyond what you ascribe to them. So why give credence to them? Why feel passionately about them?

I guess my point is, I hear a lot of people espousing an atheistic point of view but very people actually living out the logical consequences of that point of view. Even Will Provine, who has done as good a job as any of following things through to their logical conclusions, does not seem to live according to his espoused worldview.

But I'm off topic. This thread is supposed to be about hell.

So, in other words, yellow + blue pigment does not equal green?

I refute it thus: the evidence shows otherwise.

You're sitting around navel-gazing.

Learn some facts.

Facts would fuck with his total world view.

So would learning.

Louis

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,20:57

He's probably thinking the same thing that the colonial marines were wondering when they got to the colonists.

"What the fuck have I gotten into and why the fuck did I voluntarily come here?"

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,21:08

Kevin,

Hell is where other people go when they die. Jews, Atheists, Muslims, Homos. Especially Homos.

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Posted: Mar. 25 2011,21:44

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So, in other words, yellow + blue pigment does not equal green?

I refute it thus: the evidence shows otherwise.

You're sitting around navel-gazing.

Learn some facts.

He's observing lint?

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Posted: Mar. 26 2011,09:49

I don't exactly feel qualified to wade into this morass, but I will do so anyway: A question for Kevin:

Why does this film single out Hell?
From my perspective, you can't separate hell from all the other things that religion expects you to believe. Why only hell? As a non-believer, I lump it in with everything else supernatural: angels, heaven, gods, miracles, demons, devils, possession, prayer.
From a evolutionary perspective (ironically) religion makes perfect sense. As intelligence and self awareness grew, so did questions about how the world came to be and what happens after death. Humans have a natural tendency to perceive the world this way, and what they are taught by their society reinforces it. People who subscribe to the cultural beliefs are more successful in passing on their genes than those who don't.

At some level, I have to agree with the other posters here regarding your motives. Expelled was an awful and dishonest film, and gullible people accepted it as fact. As an educator, I see the country slipping more and more into a trend of rejecting sound science; my state is one of many who have pending legislation to allow the most recent manifestation of creationist interference ("academic freedom to teach weaknesses in evolution") Your film, I'm sad to say, is used as support for these efforts, making my job all the harder.

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Posted: Mar. 26 2011,11:29

Just a quick thought on Hell.

It promises eternal suffering (how very christian). But, in my own experience, with time you can get used to all types of pain (I've been a martyr to toothache and backache for a long time, but don't even feel anything anymore). So, how does this work? Exponantial increase in pain levels until the end of eternity? (And believe you me, in the wise words of Bad Religion: "Eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time"). Because if that's how it works, god's little torturous helpers would have to at least start by giving me a blowjob as a form of torture before they can even reach the point when pain becomes just a tiny nuisance...

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Posted: Mar. 26 2011,14:09

Quote (Schroedinger's Dog @ Mar. 26 2011,11:29)

Just a quick thought on Hell.

It promises eternal suffering (how very christian). But, in my own experience, with time you can get used to all types of pain (I've been a martyr to toothache and backache for a long time, but don't even feel anything anymore). So, how does this work? Exponantial increase in pain levels until the end of eternity? (And believe you me, in the wise words of Bad Religion: "Eternity, my friend, is a long fucking time"). Because if that's how it works, god's little torturous helpers would have to at least start by giving me a blowjob as a form of torture before they can even reach the point when pain becomes just a tiny nuisance...

Read "Surface Detail" by Ian Banks. It's a way better description of hell than what they whiny little Christians call hell.

Of course, we've had 2000 years to refine our ideas of hell from when Paul or his disciples (I suspect) wrote revelation.

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Posted: Mar. 26 2011,15:01

Thanks for the recommandation Ogre. I've heard good things about that book and will order it.

I was just musing. What would be the reaction of Kev' and friends if Jesus Himself appeared to them and said something along the lines of "stop believing in me, God and the Bible right now, under pain of eternal punishment and suffering".

I'd like to be a fly on those walls...

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Posted: Mar. 26 2011,18:00

Quote (Schroedinger's Dog @ Mar. 26 2011,15:01)

Thanks for the recommandation Ogre. I've heard good things about that book and will order it.

I was just musing. What would be the reaction of Kev' and friends if Jesus Himself appeared to them and said something along the lines of "stop believing in me, God and the Bible right now, under pain of eternal punishment and suffering".

I'd like to be a fly on those walls...

I have asked believers how they know that, just hypothetically understand, the Bible was not written by Satan to confuse them. I have yet to receive an answer other than, "But it wasn't!"

I mean, how can they know? They weren't there when it was written, were they? �

Edited by Kristine on Mar. 26 2011,18:01

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Posted: Mar. 27 2011,18:31

If he was at all honest he would start with the Bible and find that the Christian view of Satan, devils and Hell does not exist in the Bible and is largely an invention of the Dark Age.

He also needs to deal with the fact that the various Christian sects have a very different view of how to avoid going to hell.

Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

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Posted: Mar. 27 2011,18:55

Quote (MichaelJ @ Mar. 27 2011,18:31)

If he was at all honest he would start with the Bible and find that the Christian view of Satan, devils and Hell does not exist in the Bible and is largely an invention of the Dark Age.

He also needs to deal with the fact that the various Christian sects have a very different view of how to avoid going to hell.

Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

And that a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in heaven.

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Posted: Mar. 27 2011,19:57

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Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,04:25

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Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

I find it extremely telling that original sin derived from curiosity and the desire for knowledge. Well, if you believe one version of the fairy tales that is.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,04:44

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Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

I find it extremely telling that original sin derived from curiosity and the desire for knowledge. Well, if you believe one version of the fairy tales that is.

Louis

That's funny I thought OS was something to do with a talking snake (with at least two legs) and a woman.

Snakes came out the winners there didn't they when he condemed all snake kind to crawl on their bellies? Wait 'till the big G finds out that one in the garden of Eden didn't have legs to start with*.

*NOT SMART ARSE EVO COMMENTS ON SNAKE EVOLUTION PLEASE I'M TALKING ABOUT A MYTH.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,10:18

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Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

I find it extremely telling that original sin derived from curiosity and the desire for knowledge. Well, if you believe one version of the fairy tales that is.

Louis

Somehow I got the impression that "orginal sin" was actually, you know, doin' it.

At least all the bluestocking Bible-thumpers I was exposed to seemed to think so.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,10:29

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Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

I find it extremely telling that original sin derived from curiosity and the desire for knowledge. Well, if you believe one version of the fairy tales that is.

Louis

Somehow I got the impression that "orginal sin" was actually, you know, doin' it.

At least all the bluestocking Bible-thumpers I was exposed to seemed to think so.

So shagging and figuring out stuff about the universe = Teh Bad?

I knew I didn't like that religion for a good reason.

Louis

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,10:29

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Quote (MichaelJ @ Mar. 27 2011,18:31)

Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

I find it extremely telling that original sin derived from curiosity and the desire for knowledge. Well, if you believe one version of the fairy tales that is.

Louis

Somehow I got the impression that "orginal sin" was actually, you know, doin' it.

At least all the bluestocking Bible-thumpers I was exposed to seemed to think so.

That puts a disturbing interpretation on 'born in sin'.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,10:45

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Lastly he needs to deal with the fact that according to mainstream Christianity a lot of people who don't deserve it are going to end up in Hell.

I beg to differ: According to mainstream Christianity, everyone deserves to end up in Hell, because everyone is maximally disgusting and sinful and evil JUST BECAUSE. So sayeth the lovely, life-affirming doctrine of Original Sin, don't'cha know.

Don't beg; it isn't dignified.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,10:47

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So shagging and figuring out stuff about the universe = Teh Bad?

I knew I didn't like that religion for a good reason.

Louis

Yeah; things like that could lead to dancing!

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,11:05

And I ask once again, where in the hell is Kevin?

Have we been so mean to him that he has gone to his own little private hell? Is he sulking? Rejoicing in his suffering?

We Question - You Decide!

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Posted: Mar. 28 2011,12:45

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So shagging and figuring out stuff about the universe = Teh Bad?

I knew I didn't like that religion for a good reason.

Louis

Yeah; things like that could lead to dancing!

{Faints from shock}

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