God as the ultimate child abuser

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove


Well Jeez AH, did you look at the picture of the man in the article linked on your OP? He doesn't look exactly happy does he?

Eh? I thought it was Agathon

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Agathon
When X almost always happens in situation Y, and we know of a situation Y where we don't know whether X happened or not, it is always reasonable to believe it did based upon known probabilities.

Except you didn't. You ignored thousands of cases where X didn't happen, and held the most egregious case as your exemplar.

You might have spent 5 minutes looking up Hume's famous argument on the existence of miracles.

Assumes a priori there are no miracles, which is something you can't do if you intend to show that there are no miracles... all of which I already pointed out.

As I said, if you mean there is something in Hume of substance other that this, bring it on. If that's all he's got I remain unimpressed. It amounts to nothing more than, "it's not a miracle because I don't believe in miracles."

Please think first. We are talking about reasons to believe, not whether it was true or not. Something may well be true, but it would be irrational to believe it (if you don't understand this, then you are truly lost). Even if everything said in the Gospels is true, it is nevertheless irrational to believe it given the evidence.

You seem to be talking about whether it is true. You seem to be insisting that because it could be false it must be false, unless some "confirmation" smacks you on the head. You claim that anyone who disagrees with you is inflicted with a neurological disorder, which is quite unscholarly and shallow.

You need to do better than this complete failure to defend your fanatical cult.

Except I'm not defending Christianity. I'm showing that your fanatical atheism is irrational. You can't even bring yourself to intellectually concede that it is possible for the early leadership to have conducted themselves as described in Acts and the canonical epistles.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Straybow
Except I'm not defending Christianity. I'm showing that your fanatical atheism is irrational. You can't even bring yourself to intellectually concede that it is possible for the early leadership to have conducted themselves as described in Acts and the canonical epistles.

Actually, I thought that what he's been saying all along is that anything could have happened, we just have no reason to believe that any one thing did happen because of a total lack of verifiable evidence.

[Alexander's Horse]

The church has always taught that Christ's life is mystery.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


hey, God let his wife get sick

God didn't burn a cross on his lawn in front of his wife and children. God didn't make anonymus threatening phone calls to his wife. God didn't glower at her when she took a walk or went to the market.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
The church has always taught that Christ's life is mystery.

Who done it?