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[Paul @dragonthought]

@NancyRPearcey A sample size of 644 isn’t bad, but is on the small size. Also the institute for family research is a deeply biased organization that has had issues in the past so take these results with a grain of salt.

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@AiG And the Quran teaches that you are really Muslim.

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@AleMartnezR1 Where do you get that definition of design from? Form and order apply to pretty much everything, so it seems not very useful.

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@wendelltalks Please demonstrate!

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@caseyofm That’s kinda the history of the church right there…

[Paul @dragonthought]

@AleMartnezR1 I’m not entirely sure what you are asking, so correct me if I am answering the wrong question here, but no I don’t think that’s a good definition. It’s much too subjective and I see no reason to automatically conflate ‘greatest being’ and ‘god’.

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@AleMartnezR1 Right but that’s just defining what the ‘greatest being’ would be. How do you show that such a being actually exists?

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@sygarte Why the Bible, exactly? Why not the Bhagavad Gita?

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@JacksonWheat1 It’s not really an argument, but I like to ask for a testable prediction based on god. Haven’t gotten one yet.

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@caseyofm Just being picky, but you are simply assuming that you have any authority at all, be it from a book or not.

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@DrFrankTurek Actually I tend to think more about childhood cancers, parasites, etc. Stuff that, over the vast majority of human history, we have had no control over. But your god would have and apparently decided to do nothing to stop it. That’s evil.

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@DrFrankTurek So, your god can’t stop childhood cancer because it (suddenly) doesn’t want to kill people? Even if your premise were right and stopping all evil would mean killing people, god could still prevent a great deal of evil without killing. But it never will.

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@MikeWingerii Honestly this doesn’t sound any more far fetched than any other Christian claims.

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@AiG This is the result of the abusive nature of some people’s take on religion. This is the damage and why so many speak out against it.

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@AleMartnezR1 God is not an explanation for anything. An explanation would entail understanding. God is simply a post hoc rationalization that believers can use to assert the power of their God.

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@Curi_Christian Do we need one?

[Paul @dragonthought]

@DrFrankTurek This is … absurd would still be too polite. Punishing someone else for my transgressions is never just. Also, won’t your god also punish the unjust in hell? So it’s punishing itself AND us. Seems kinda masochistic to me.

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@RealityEnthusi2 How do you know this exactly? I’m not saying I agree with Katy, her tweet has the exact same issue. It’s not like any other animal could express such a feeling, though, so whether they have them or not, we cannot say.