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  1. Magic Man

    Proof against the existence of God?

    The most compelling evidence for the non-existence of a god first needs a definition. We're talking about theistic gods here, as in a sentient being that not only created the universe but interferes with it. This doesn't apply to deistic or pantheistic or panentheistic of other types of gods. An...
  2. Magic Man

    The “naturalist” Problem of Suffering

    I know I'm very late to the game here, so this has probably already been covered, but this misses the entire point of the problem of evil/suffering and therefore makes no sense. The point of The Problem of Evil is that the most popular theistic god is supposedly all-good and all-loving. It's...
  3. Magic Man

    Girls don't go to school -- the Taliban says so.

    That was a hugely different situation. It was a country very much in line with the rest of Europe and the West at the time and for centuries beforehand. It was a dictatorship that came out of a party that was never especially popular but only ever as popular as it was because of harsh economic...
  4. Magic Man

    Answering Atheists

    I'm not clear on why you replied, when you didn't address anything I said in any way. Why waste time typing all that when you made no discernable point, much less a point related to anything we've talked about? You have a decision. Either God is omniscient and omnipotent, or he's not. If...
  5. Magic Man

    Rolemodels for gay people

    1) Depends on the circumstance. I'm straight, and I've had half-naked guys in my house before. It was fine. 2) That has nothing to do with whether you should object to them dressing that way in other contexts. They didn't come visit you. You weren't even at the place in that picture. It...
  6. Magic Man

    Rolemodels for gay people

    1) You didn't answer the actual question. You only object to dressing like that when it's members of the LGBTQ+ community? Why don't you object when straight people dress like that? Like when they wear bikinis at the beach or gym clothes to and from the gym (or just at the grocery store like a...
  7. Magic Man

    Rolemodels for gay people

    Do you only object to LGBTQ+ people dressing like that? Do you object to heterosexual drag queens? Do you also object to straight people wearing gym clothes in public or short shorts or bikinis? Because the people in this photo are no different from them. There is one main difference that...
  8. Magic Man

    Why are people proud to be gay

    Not sure how serious this all is, but gay pride is a direct response to the fact that gay people have been shamed for centuries for being gay. Displaying pride in your homosexuality or your loved one's homosexuality is saying "I don't care if anyone else thinks it's shameful; it's not". It's...
  9. Magic Man

    Answering Atheists

    If you're going to claim that he can choose not to know certain things, then that's effectively the same as not being omniscient. Plus, if he's actively choosing not to know certain things, he's using his power to allow things to happen by his omission. He'd still be responsible for everything...
  10. Magic Man

    Answering Atheists

    So you need to make a decision and be honest about your beliefs before you can have a discussion/debate like this. You're trying to have your cake and eat it too. There are two variables here: omniscience and omnipotence. You just admitted here that your God is omniscient. That means he...
  11. Magic Man

    Do Atheists Have Faith?

    Sorry, but that made no sense. I didn't mention reason, but if you want to talk about that specifically, using reason is proven to work, proven by real-world data. So trusting in it is different from trusting in an imaginary being someone told you about. EDIT: I just went back and re-read the...
  12. Magic Man

    Another euthanasia debate

    Mine is not anecdotal, which is why it's better for a discussion like this. I'm sorry that happened to you, and I'm glad she was able to go that quickly when she wanted to, but that's not a typical story. Take your own advice. Yet again, no one is asking YOU to decide when someone else's...
  13. Magic Man

    How does the Epic of Gilgamesh discredit the story of Noah’s flood?

    That is one piece of evidence that would discredit a literal version of Noah's Ark, but there are many more pieces of evidence that do that and do it better. Taken solely as a myth (in the true sense, not as "a false story"), it doesn't discredit the story of Noah's Ark.
  14. Magic Man

    Do Atheists Have Faith?

    Faith is a problematic word. At its core, it means trust, but trusting someone or something you know well based on actual experience is very different from trusting someone or something like God, which is an imaginary thing you have no direct experience with. When I say I have faith in my...
  15. Magic Man

    Answering Atheists

    Then how did he create the universe? Yes, obviously the "snap his fingers" wasn't meant to be literally accurate. The point is there's never a description of how God did anything. He just did it. So it's kind of weird to ask how he'd do something else. He's omnipotent, right? Then he'd...
  16. Magic Man

    Another euthanasia debate

    What is your experience? It sounds like it's pretty limited, as what you describe is not the case for a great many people. No one is asking you to decide when another being's life should end, just whether the other being should have the right to decide that for themselves and get assistance...
  17. Magic Man

    Answering Atheists

    Last I checked, I'm not omnipotent or omniscient. So using me or any other human as a comparison for your god doesn't work. God created Satan and everything else, supposedly knowing what would happen. He has the power to either not have created it or to have created it differently (a power we...
  18. Magic Man

    Answering Atheists

    I can. Snap his fingers. That's how he created the universe, right? So, he should be able to do anything that easily. Unless you're saying he can't do it, which means he's not omnipotent.
  19. Magic Man

    Trump and the riots

    Um...I guess you could, although I have no idea what that has to do with anything. All I was pointing out is that the claim that it's unresolved question is true, contrary to your insistence. It's verifiable that the question "Could Trump be impeached after he leaves office" is undecided, as...
  20. Magic Man

    Trump and the riots

    I think it's odd that you think it was a good discussion. It's mostly just been you using one line Trump said and ignoring everything else he's said in order to make an argument in defense of him and then, despite clearly taking a side, claiming to not take one. You even said at one point that...
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