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  1. TheMusicTheory

    Why doesn't God stop evil?

    To be frank, the Abrahamic god doesn't hypothetically stop evil because the Abrahamic god *is* evil, as a concept: A god creates a race of beings with no knowledge of good and evil. Said god allows them to be tempted to eat from a tree that will *give* them knowledge of good and evil. Same god...
  2. TheMusicTheory

    The validity of intelligent design

    This is just trying to cram world events to fit a narrative and completely ignores the multitude of other times in world history that the "nations were wrathful". Europe essentially spent 1,000 years locked in a never-ending cycle of war alternately with themselves, the middle east and Asia...
  3. TheMusicTheory

    Don't Pity Atheist

    I feel rather the reverse. I was a Christian all through my life until my mid-20s, when I came to realize how foolish the entire belief structure was. I feel pity for *theists*, especially those who have committed their lives to it as pastors, missionaries or other church-based workers...
  4. TheMusicTheory

    Non-Christians. Why do you care so much about Christians and Christianity?

    Once again Christians come into a thread and treat Atheism as a religion because they can't think outside the context of a religion. They can't grasp the absence of religious thought. There is biblical support for slavery. There is no Atheism "holy book" or set of written rules. It is simply...
  5. TheMusicTheory

    Dislike and distrust of atheists?

    You aren't making any sense with this statement. "there can be no middle ground between truth and falsehood" is a true statement. Something is either true or it is not true. *You* apparently don't know what an agnostic is. An agnostic professes to not *know* if a God is true or not, which...
  6. TheMusicTheory

    Who was the most influential person to walk the earth?

    Attempting to convince someone pushing a theological agenda to set that agenda aside and examine actual evidence has always struck me as a fool's errand but good on you for trying, Augustus. As for the topic, I'm going with the guy that invented A/C.
  7. TheMusicTheory

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    This directly contradicts what is in the story. The fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is exactly what allowed them to know right from wrong in the first place. They didn't know what they had done until they had done it.
  8. TheMusicTheory

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    This is actually one of the big flaws in the bible, to be honest. Which is weird because it would have been easy to fix via another draft. Yes, God gives Adam and Eve a command, but at this point Adam and Eve are as children. Infants, really. They have no knowledge of good and evil. None...
  9. TheMusicTheory

    Do Jehovah's Witnesses Deserve to Benefit From the Freedoms Others Have Paid For?

    JWs paid taxes during WW2. Where do you think their taxes went? They supported the war effort whether they knew it or not simply by paying income and sales taxes (not every state had sales tax at that point, but the vast majority did), and even money paid to companies that did any work at all...
  10. TheMusicTheory

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    Everything we know is nicely summed up here, with helpful links to studies and abstracts: Do Fetuses Feel Pain? What the Science Says
  11. TheMusicTheory

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    Oh I can't WAIT for this. I'm going to predict that your citations will all be from christian or conservative sources that don't have actual studies to back them up. The current research IS quite clear, it just doesn't say what you want it to say. And I am *very* sure on that, thanks.
  12. TheMusicTheory

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    This is false. In fact research has shown they cannot until the third trimester: Does a Fetus Feel Pain at 20 Weeks?
  13. TheMusicTheory

    "Demonic Spirits Are Using 'Beauty And The Beast' To Recruit Children Into Sin"

    The latest sound and fury that will ultimately come to nothing. Evangelicals do this all the time.
  14. TheMusicTheory

    The FLOOD, God's Great Failure?

    This is nonsense. "Please read my holy book and only think about my holy book the way I think about it so you don't accidentally figure out it is all basically nonsense". Anyway, to the original topic: This is one of those things that make it so obvious that the god of the Old Testament and...
  15. TheMusicTheory

    Religion is for Enlightened Old Folks... Right?

    My point is that I am perfectly capable of "deep thinking" about larger questions without the need to appeal to the metaphysical or spiritual.
  16. TheMusicTheory

    Religion is for Enlightened Old Folks... Right?

    Thinking too darn much is what led me to realize that religion was largely nonsense. So I'm not sure the premise is sound.
  17. TheMusicTheory

    There are no space aliens

    No. Mostly because *we* exist, thus we know complex, intelligent life is at least possible. Given the size of the universe (which we basically can't grasp), other life existing *somewhere* is at least probable (though obviously not guaranteed). Now, the chances we will ever *encounter* that...
  18. TheMusicTheory

    If Jesus is God he sacrificed nothing for us.

    Not to mention the entire idea of needing a sacrifice in the first place is so bronze age its hard to even fathom. An omnipotent god can make all the rules, and this god chose to decide that the only way humanity could be "saved" was if he created a son and killed him. That's...quite frankly...
  19. TheMusicTheory

    Ignorance Doesn't Excuse Your Sin Sonny. Off to Hell You Go

    The problem here is that, biblically, god did this *all the time*. As an example, I'll pull from the story of Genesis: - God creates man and woman ignorant of the difference between good and evil. They have a "child-like" understanding of the world around them, and do not know right from...
  20. TheMusicTheory

    Why are many extreme Christians so nasty?

    I think it is more accurate to say that "Certain people are nasty". Our personalities are formed by a combination of experiences, genetics and other biological factors. A nasty person was very likely always going to BE a nasty person (generally speaking). Now, was that person's personality...
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