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  1. Objective Qualia

    Interview: A biochemist explains his faith.

    If a scientist adopting your religious views is compelling evidence for you, would a preacher or other individual in the JW adopting atheism be compelling too?
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    My Strange, Weird and Wacky Religious Beliefs

    It's a bit strange but it's not the strangest I've encountered. I do have a couple of questions though. If there are an infinite number of simulations happenening are there an infinite number of "you" in other simulations? If so can you communicate with them and are they different or are they...
  3. Objective Qualia

    What If We Never Die

    When you avoid death and jump to another reality do any of the people that were in your life previously change? For example you have a friend that likes to go bowling with you then you barely escape death and they hate bowling now.
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    Freewill, all or nothing?

    "God" has already limited our free will. If you agree this god has designed our bodies, minds and physical universe then our options are limited from the start. No one can live under water like a fish or survive on nothing but water and sunlight no matter how much they will it to be so. Likewise...
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    what do you think?

    Because God is oppressive.
  6. Objective Qualia

    Do Christians believe the Second Coming of Christ is imminent?

    I've never heard of that interpretation. At first glance it seems much more representative of what's in the bible than the of Jesus' imminent return
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    How can you deny the possibility of God's existence until..

    Don't most definitions of a god place it outside of the universe?
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    If a God exists, and claimed to be good, and moral, would his claim necessarily be true?

    Being good and moral depend on actions not claims. A god can claim anything it does is good or moral but that doesn't make it so.
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    Do Christians believe the Second Coming of Christ is imminent?

    It's pointless to speculate when Jesus will return as the bible says no one knows the day or the time. Many of the prophecies predicting his return are vague and generalized. Things like earthquakes, famines, wars, and doubters have existed before and after Jesus. This allows every christian to...
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    Do Christians believe the Second Coming of Christ is imminent?

    Christians have believed the return of Jesus will be in their life times since the first generation of Christians. In one of the epistles, the writer advises not to bother getting married as the second coming of Jesus is imminent. There are also other statements in the epistles showing the...
  11. Objective Qualia

    The Monopoly of Religious Believers

    Some but not all religious people believe they have a monopoly on some good quality because it feels good and appeals to a sort of tribalism. "Only good/smart/happy people are part of my group if you're not a part of it you can't be good/smart/happy."
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    Could Jesus Have Been Simply a Fraud?

    Ireneaeus lived in the second century and died in 202. He couldn't have possibly witnessed what the disciples did unless they died after the year 150.
  13. Objective Qualia

    Science has given us this and God has given us what?

    Science has fed the hungry, cured diseases that killed and maimed millions, almost doubled our average life spans, and is now helping the lame walk and the blind see. Granted science has its consequences but I'll take modern science over what we had before. Contrast this with the bible, which...
  14. Objective Qualia

    Question for atheists

    The only difficulties I have in explaining are how preconceived notions of some theists about atheists are wrong. For example, I know their god exists and I'm pretending not to so I can sin or rebel, I believe something came from nothing, I have no morals etc.
  15. Objective Qualia

    Eternal "Universe"

    If time as we know it began with the initial expansion of the big bang, then it would be fair to say the universe always existed in one form or another. At leasts that's my understanding of the current model of the universe.
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    Should God Not Send Everyone to Hell?

    It depends on the standards of the deity and how effectively it communicates those standards. If the standards are outlandish or so poorly communicated that very few understand them then it wouldn't be fair or just.
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    What is your stance on free will?

    I don't really believe in free will or determinism. I think they get the spot light a bit too often because of how polarizing they are. I find the concept of "free won't" rather persuasive.
  18. Objective Qualia

    Would You Worship an Indifferent God?

    That really depends on the actions it takes and what I would get for worshiping it. It could be indifferent but take little action to cause suffering or it could cause large amounts of suffering for its own reasons. If it's perfectly indifferent, I don't get the satisfaction of knowing the...
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    God existance paradox?

    We'd still have plenty of choice. Being unable to choose for example, to kill our neighbors because we want their stuff, we can choose to get a better job, sell our things to get what we want, or just get over it. On top of many other near infinite choices. If evil is the absence of God then...
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    Why are atheists interested in religion?

    I had no idea that was what I believed all along. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
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