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Recent content by blueinchains

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    This SDA religion is not a very popular one is it?

    The fighting is mostly about interpretation. I have met many sincere people and friends who plainly put their own interpretation to scripture and admit doing so. This is where the confusion comes from. Churches build an entire doctrine on one passage or verse of scripture and THAT is why...
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    My Religious Views

    This was one of the most well written, well thought out posts that I have read on here and I had a marvelous time reading it. You explain yourself in great detail and it takes a very strong person to express themselves in this manner. I applaud you and hope that we can have a wonderful...
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    My Religious Views

    "Finally there is the God of Alvin Plantinga's ontological argument towards whom I am not actually atheistic but agnostic. I feel that this argument, whilst failing to show that God's existence is more probable than his non-existence, successfully demonstrates that theism and atheism towards...
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    My Religious Views

    "Finally, there is the God of whom I know nothing yet whose possibility of existence prevents me from rejecting entirely. It is important that I don't know anything about it because, since I have no evidence and no reason to posit any attribute, any attribute I give it would make it less...
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    My Religious Views

    "Next are those that are supported by an argument that I consider weak. The so-called Philosopher's Gods. I am most open to having my mind changed in this area because I can always find new merit in an argument or new evidence to support a premise. Additionally, I feel that if I were to be...
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    My Religious Views

    "Next are those that are not supported by argument. An example would be believing in God because the believer wanted to believe in God. Another example would be believing in God because of faith in scripture. This would include all the Gods that are currently held to exist by the mainstream...
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    My Religious Views

    "The Gods that I dismiss most strongly are those which I consider to be meaningless (strong omnipotence), logically inconsistent (supernaturalism) or semantically incorrect (naturalistic pantheism)." Believe it or not, given the general concept of a god, what you have typed here could very...
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    My Religious Views

    "What is key, however, is that this undermined my rational basis for theism. Not all beliefs were equal. Some beliefs were more probable than others and surely I should accept those beliefs that were the more probable? But how probable was my belief in God? Without having an answer to this...
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    My Religious Views

    "So I was left feeling that I could know nothing yet with a mind that thought it knew things anyway. I decided that if I was going to have to believe in something then I might as well believe those things that I wanted to exist. Reality could have been anything for all I knew but I was...
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    My Religious Views

    "Initially, I did not like the idea of scepticism. I had too much emotional investment in many of beliefs and in particular my belief in God and so did not want to consider the possibility that they were wrong. However, from debating online and with my friends, its usefulness became more and...
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    My Religious Views

    "In the end (after a few months), I fell back on my theism again and decided that God gave life purpose. I now needed my theism as a reason for getting out of bed in the morning. It was quite literally keeping me alive. At first, my theism had changed from being on the periphery of my world view...
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    My Religious Views

    "In the end (after a few months), I fell back on my theism again and decided that God gave life purpose." It is my belief that this will always be so....
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    My Religious Views

    "Neither Megan's approach nor our approach had any affect upon. We had all wanted to further the cause of tolerance but none of us had succeeded." You do not know this. He may have very well left the forum because he was wrestling with what was being said, or by Meagan's kindness to him. You...
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    My Religious Views

    "My parents are both atheists. My mum perhaps being more of an anti-theist. So it seems like my upbringing should have predisposed me towards atheism. However, they are both quite superstitious so perhaps they made me open to the idea of believing things without questioning. Like most English...
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    My Religious Views

    "I cannot remember why I first began to believe in the existence of God. If I had a reasoned argument for my belief then it is not something that I can recall. I suspect that I never had such an argument because I had not properly considered the concept of our beliefs having a source. Whilst I...
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