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1 week ago @ Atheist Revolution - The Fallacy of Atheism... · 1 reply · -1 points
1. God rewards the good and punishes the bad, and
2. God allows shit to happen to the good and bad alike.
These were reconciled with the idea that the "rewards" might be delivered in the afterlife rather than the temporal one.
My recent post Religious Attitudes Poll
1 week ago @ Atheist Revolution - The Fallacy of Atheism... · 0 replies · 0 points
My recent post Religious Attitudes Poll
3 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Idiot of the Week: Gov... · 0 replies · +2 points
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3 weeks ago @ Atheist Revolution - Rick Santorum: The Chr... · 0 replies · 0 points
The Evangelical community still holds a divergent opinion on who the nominee should be,” Rick Tyler, senior advisor to Winning Our Future PAC, a pro-Gingrich group, told OneNewsNow.com. “Rick Santorum won a straw poll that had a questionable methodology.”
Of the 150 registered attendees, only 114 voted in the final paper ballot - Santorum received 85 of those votes...
As I see it, the evangelicals are still pretty badly divided. For whatever that's worth.
My recent post McCain Endorses Romney…
5 weeks ago @ You Made Me Say It! - Chiefs Defense Defeats... · 1 reply · +1 points
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12 weeks ago @ You Made Me Say It! - Like a bunch of children · 1 reply · +1 points
Maybe his god doesn't care for a sweet, tomato-based KC sauce.
Maybe his taste runs more toward Carolina-style BBQ.
13 weeks ago @ You Made Me Say It! - Like a bunch of children · 1 reply · +1 points
The Christian is seemingly incapable of realizing his comments are offensive...
That may be true in some, maybe even most, cases. But I know that at least some fervent evangelicals intentionally set out to offend those who disagree with them. These zealots - Major Army Barmy is one example - don't mind offending people if such offense will prompt them to accept Jesus as their savior. In fact, they take pride in being offensive if it yields another saved soul.
14 weeks ago @ You Made Me Say It! - American Myths · 0 replies · +1 points
...the objection is really only an objection due to a belief in a supreme god.... the objection to humans as supreme beings is because it's blasphemous to a believer, a direct challenge to their god's supremacy
Right - the "challenge" only exists in believers' minds. Atheists don't waste time and energy "challenging" imaginary beings. The "challenge" notion is a theistic attempt to fit atheism into the pigeonhole of their worldview, which only allows for two possibilities - either acceptance of their deities (and acceptance of their claims about said deities) or rebellion against those beings (and believers' claims about them). Their worldview doesn't have room for the actual atheist position, which is simply rejection of believers' claims re: the existence of deities and their knowledge of deities' natures and desires. We're not challenging anyone for supremacy. What we're doing is refusing to accept unwarranted claims, period. Yes, humankind dominates the planet at the moment. Dinosaurs had their moment too.
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