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And is it so much trouble just to answer a few questions? If you really believe your statements are correct, then surely, it should be really easy to answer any questions we have about your arguments, right? Apparently, you're just not seeing the problem with the duality model of good and...

Do not assume the reasons for why atheists are atheists. It is not a necessary condition for atheists to desire god not existing in order to be one. As Jquestionmark has already mentioned, problems with even technicalities in the bible are enough to require attention. And for that matter, I'm...

I came back recently too. And so did Contra Fates. And so did a few other older members. What gives? It's just too much of a coincidence.

There's nothing ridiculous about it. Provide a counter argument that shows that Christians cannot logically be vain. That's argument from ignorance. Just because you might not consider the taking away of free will to be a gift doesn't mean the converse is necessarily true. It's not vain...

I don't know; why don't you ask all the people desperately trying not to go to hell and trying to go to heaven? Here's a hint: they're doing it for themselves; nobody else. If you ask me, god has just shot himself in the foot by imposing a heaven and hell system that punishes people for not...

Ja, and that's what I want to know--how do you know that this higher being with infinite scope of perception exists, or for that matter, that an absolute justice even exists? Either one of our interpretations of justice is right, and everyone else is wrong, nobody has it right, or nobody is...

*bump* My realism interpretation of Manfred von Karma from Phoenix Wright.

I don't think people would actually like a malevolent god to exist. The irony is that I think that's exactly what happened to the Christian god. Instead of being a benevolent god that people want to have exist because he'll help them through life and comfort them from things like the unknown...

Thanks. Ja apparently, that was due to a Photobucket bandwidth problem, and I have no idea why, but I guess it will be available again next month.

No it won't. Scapegoating someone with everything you do wrong doesn't in any way discourage you from doing anything that might be considered evil. If you can't punish someone for doing something evil, then what's the point of hell? That would further reinforce the point that god is endlessly...

And there are things that do not have the status of being knowable, either because they are not facts or because we don't have any evidence (and then it's only a temporal issue). In the former case, opinions are not facts because they are neither true nor false; we call them subjective...

I agree it isn't, but not respecting someone doesn't necessarily mean you hate them; maybe you dislike them, but you can't be bothered to spend more time on your dislike of them. So maybe some people don't like their family members because they didn't enjoy sharing living space with them, and...

I think it should be important to define god before starting a debate like this. So if the person asserting that infinity brings us closer to god (Harlequin, I presume?), then he should define god, and explain why. So far as I know, I don't see any reason why an abstract concept brings us...

That's exactly the scapegoating I'm talking about. Allowing people to be forgiven for the things they have done, and receiving no punishment or responsibility for it. Just because someone forgives you doesn't mean you're right. Allowing people to be excused for anything they do wrong, and still...

Why is that, and why god in particular? Why not Shiva, Thor, Zeus or any other deity? So you believe in might makes right and appeal to populace; just because it's popular doesn't mean it's right. Just because the majority of people in America happen to be Christian doesn't mean we have to...

No, I just happen to think that we can discuss certain aspects of things that are logical (that we are able to love is due to chemicals like hormones; this is based on things we have discovered logically. How you choose to interpret the existence of love is up to discussion). I'm just offering...

Which is the same as saying we're all potentially capable of doing bad things to other people--in which case, being a sinner just means you're a regular, imperfect person, and there's nothing to be ashamed of. There's no reason why being imperfect needs to be pardoned. Not any reason I know of...

No, it does not, and there's a simple test for that: is a rock good or evil? According to you, if it's not good, it's evil. If it's not evil, it must be good. But a rock is neither good nor evil, so such a duality does not exist. And for that matter, I also strongly disagree with the sentiment...

Yes, there is a problem because you are asserting the wrong form of agnosticism; if you are only concerned with what people believe, then only strong agnosticism applies. And because you are so sure that agnosticism is a belief and not a position on knowledge, how about answering the question of...

And I do not agree with your definition of agnosticism because you have not demonstrated that there is no distinction between strong and weak agnosticism. Because agnosticism in and of itself is not a religion; if you do not believe in deities because you think you cannot know anything for...