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Nox? Hecate?Ogma? Lugh? The Morrigan? Epona?
I'll pass on the Greek and Romans. Prometheus is pretty cool though.Nox? Hecate?
So many to converse with I get giddy at times.
Jesus gives his reasons and explains why the many reasons for his many ' woes ' pronounced at Matthew 23:13-35And like many politicians, Jesus is lying. He and John the Baptist were against temple authority for various reasons.
Instead of going to Adam she chose for herself.Not a single episode suggests that they are mentally mature. Eve ate the fruit because it looked delicious. She didn’t give a dissertation on the philosophy of disobedience.
Back then Jesus was Not here to change anything in the world. Change comes at Jesus' Glory Time - Matthew 25:31-33And it could be argued that it is why he failed to change anything.
I know, because they don't actually have any basis for morality. It's just what feels good to them.
Do you believe that we should base our laws on a country that got wiped off the map after splitting in a civil war?
We heathens actually have pretty much the sameI know, because they don't actually have any basis for morality. It's just what feels good to them.
You should know better than that, after spending as much time as you have on this forum.I know, because they don't actually have any basis for morality. It's just what feels good to them.
Whoosh! I didn't say they don't have morals. I said they have no basis for morality.Yet when researched atheists are at least as moral as theists on any level playing field. So you just made up a rather pointless lie didn't you.
Whoosh! I didn't say they don't have morals. I said they have no basis for morality.
It's convinced me even more. There's no basis for morality in the atheist world...that doesn't mean atheists can't be moral, of course.You should know better than that, after spending as much time as you have on this forum.
Of course there is, you just refuse to recognize it.It's convinced me even more. There's no basis for morality in the atheist world...that doesn't mean atheists can't be moral, of course.
You haven't demonstrated that atheists have any basis for morality.Of course there is, you just refuse to recognize it.
Your basis for morality is "might makes right" and "do what you're told" which I would argue isn't a system of morality at all since it's just following orders. And on top of that, it's subjective because it's based on the whims of a deity. A deity that you can't even demonstrate exists in the first place. Oddly enough, the views of the God(s) people claim to exist always seem to match up with their pre-existing beliefs about moral values. Hence all the different religions and different denominations of each religion.
Sorry to tell you, but you are in the same boat as everybody else on this.
So, these experiments suggest that there is actually no free will (and hence no morality, as you state) and this is irrespective of the brain scans coming from either atheists or theists.You haven't demonstrated that atheists have any basis for morality.
It's not subjective when there's a higher authority involved. Moral equals obedience to God and immoral equals disobedience.
Here’s prominent atheist Jerry Coyne’s editorial in USA Today to explain why atheists can’t ground free will.
Excerpt:
"And that’s what neurobiology is telling us: Our brains are simply meat computers that, like real computers, are programmed by our genes and experiences to convert an array of inputs into a predetermined output. Recent experiments involving brain scans show that when a subject “decides” to push a button on the left or right side of a computer, the choice can be predicted by brain activity at least seven seconds before the subject is consciously aware of having made it. (These studies use crude imaging techniques based on blood flow, and I suspect that future understanding of the brain will allow us to predict many of our decisions far earlier than seven seconds in advance.) “Decisions” made like that aren’t conscious ones. And if our choices are unconscious, with some determined well before the moment we think we’ve made them, then we don’t have free will in any meaningful sense."
If you don’t have free will, then you can’t make moral choices, and you can’t be held morally responsible. No free will means no morality.
Only in a world where there's no God. That's the missing piece of the puzzle.So, these experiments suggest that there is actually no free will (and hence no morality, as you state) and this is irrespective of the brain scans coming from either atheists or theists.
So how do you explain those results?Only in a world where there's no God. That's the missing piece of the puzzle.
Sorry but John the Baptist was executed for saying that the king was immoral. Jesus threw a Temple Tantrum, assaulting people with a whip. They were executed for political resistance.Jesus gives his reasons and explains why the many reasons for his many ' woes ' pronounced at Matthew 23:13-35
Jesus nor his followers tried to overthrow authority, nor try to operate the machinery of government.
Jesus and his followers did Not get involved in the 'issues of the day' between the Jews verses the Romans.
Jesus and his followers remained politically neutral.
There is nothing wrong with that. Eve was created after the rule was given. If you argue Adam told her about it, then he is responsible for why she says it wrong.Instead of going to Adam she chose for herself.
Satan the Master of Distraction told Eve she would Not die.
Eve could have seen some animals eat the forbidden fruit and Not die.
Remember: the fruit was Not poisonous. The sin was disobedience. It was disobedience = death. - Genesis 2:17