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Because that's who Christians claim to follow. There's no one who would deny that Christians worship Christ, just like no one would deny that Dionysian-type cults worship Dionysus. Just because they claim to worship something doesn't mean it's real. Again, Suetonius wasn't born until 69 AD...

Determinism (specifically causal determinism) is the concept that events within a given paradigm are bound by causality in such a way that any state (of an object or event) is completely, or at least to some large degree, determined by prior states. Hence "determinism" is the name of a broader...

If you only read one line from this post, make it the bold sentence from the quote at the very end. ----- I don't even know where to begin to reply to any of the claims made in this topic. I don't... uh... Actually, fuck that. I'm not doing anything else tonight. Let's start with the first...

This is an obscenely long response to a complex question, so I'll just sum up the conclusions here, because, come on, you weren't going to read the whole thing anyway. 1. There no evidence that Israelites were ever enslaved in Egypt. 2. There is no evidence that any plagues were visited upon...

Translation: Religion is wrong and stays wrong forever. Science is wrong and changes to be correct. We're comparing oranges and wax apples, buddy. One's eternal and pretty to look at, but not nourishing or useful, and one's an orange. I don't like explaining analogies as much as I expected...

The true face of science? Science is a method of gaining information, buddy, and a body of knowledge gained by it is much larger than you seem to understand. Proof only exists in mathematics, buddy. There is nothing about the Theory of Evolution that is not practical, and there's only the...

True, the term "agnostic" has deviated from its original meaning by Huxley, and the definition you are using is the popular one. I disagree with it, but you are explaining your beliefs clearly enough that everyone can understand it, with or without the simple label we are arguing over.

As that's not the topic, I won't waste time trying to explain how you're wrong. Read my previous post. The ideas that god exists and does not exist don't conflict? We can live in a universe where a god simultaneously does and does not exist? Uh. what

I assert that, if you didn't just make that definition up, you got it from a terrible source, because that second definition is totally incorrect. From the Random House Dictionary: noun 1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as god, and the essential nature of things...

Well, you're an agnostic atheist, to be sure. Agnosticism refers to knowledge. Atheism refers to belief. Saying you're agnostic in regards to whether you believe in god or not is a little bit nonsensical.

I would love to see how you get that! Apparently not, because that's completely unrelated. What the fuck does that mean? Creationism is in school, in World Religion classes. It does not belong in a science class because it is not science.

There isn't a scie... What? This doesn't even make sense. I agree. There isn't a scientific analysis of that. I don't think anyone here said there was. The natures of religion and science are exactly opposed. Religion is faith, science is fact.

This is very simple. You don't know what these words mean. A fact is an observation. You see an apple fall from a tree. That's a FACT. You see that the great apes have foramen magnums further back than humans. That's a FACT. You observed it. A theory NEVER becomes a fact. That's not how...

We must be living in different worlds, because I'm not sure what you're talking about. Maybe you just didn't notice it before, but this conflict between religion and irreligion is not new. That's probability, yes, but I'd say that if someone becomes and atheist, they've obviously grown in...

Strawmanned? I think the word you mean to use there is "correct". The Theory of Gravity can be tested, and is every time you fall over. The Theory of Evolution can be tested, and we have literally observed speciation events in a lab. Germ Theory can be tested, and is every time we get...

First of all, thank you for taking the time to cite your sources! Second of all, let's take a look at them. Pliny the Younger lived from 61 AD – ca. 112 AD and wrote only about the Christians, in reference to their worship of a figure called Christ. This does not have anything to do with adding...

Yeah, from the Big Lewbowski. I would love to see that documented evidence! If you can link it, please do. Citation needed. ... There's no evidence on either side, let alone good evidence. Again, I would really like to see how you think there's evidence for a heaven or a hell! Citation...

That's actually totally not true. There really isn't any good evidence at all. At all. Except for accommodating Christians, there's no reason for a person with an interest in history to concede that Jesus probably existed. That's just laziness. Any references to Jesus made by historians, such...

No. There is no reason to believe in a God. There is no evidence Jesus ever existed. There is no evidence anything supernatural has ever happened, ever. We live in a natural world.

"The god within yourself is the only true god." - Gaahl God is one of us, because we are all gods. Because apparently succinctness is not valued here, allow me to explain. There is no reason to think any single human has any more worth than any other. Indeed, there is no reason to think...