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September 6, 2008
Obvious: communism was not and is not atheistic. Communist-states merely removed religions that did not support the communist foundation and kept churches that obliged just like any other establishment.
History: During the Nazi period along with German Catholics in the 1920s, 1930s, and through the 1950s, the American anti-communist panic and right-wing fanatics fueled the [...]
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September 4, 2008
If everything has a cause and God caused everything then what caused God?
I found this to be my preferred counter: “Actually, at the Quantum Level particles and anti-particles spontaneously appear and destroy each other; that is why Black Holes give out radiation, two particles pop up but one is sucked into the event horizon while [...]
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The Constitution is a secular (the state of being separate from religion) document, with no mention of god/s, Jesus, or Christians and the underpinning principles of the document go against Christian ‘teachings.’ U.S. Constitution Article IV, “but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the [...]
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The French philosopher Blaise Pascal posed that even though the existence of God cannot be concluded through reason, a person should ‘wager’ as though God exists, because such a position has possibility everything to gain, and surely nothing to lose. What if you picked the incorrect god/s?
The wager assumes that the correct god/s is worshiped.
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Martyrdom is not a mark that what one is dying for is correct. Fanatics of all sorts are willing to die for their beliefs. Christians seem to have forgotten about 9/11/01 and the suicide-bombers in Israel (Muslims). What about the people who committed suicide at the command of Jim Jones in Jonestown. What about the [...]
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Synopsis: The Christian apologists claim: free-will resolves the problem of evil because, by having free-will, people have the choice to do good or do evil and after all, God would not want mindless robots. This answer resolves nothing.
If God is all-powerful, then he could invent a world where lacking free-will would not created mindless robots. [...]
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Apoptosis is a form (main types) of programmed cell death in multicellular organisms. It’s a process of intentional suicide by an unwanted cell in a multicellular organism. So, we have suicide as a natural process in nature.
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The Bible says NOTHING about abortion and what it says can be used to support a pro-choice position and not an anti-pro-choice position.
“For indeed, there is one passage in the Bible that deals specifically with the act of causing a woman to abort a pregnancy. And the penalty for causing the abortion is not [...]
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Abortion (according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) is the expulsion or extraction of all (complete) or any part (incomplete) of the placenta or membranes with or without an abortus, before the 20th week (before the 134th day) of gestation.
This definition is based on the scientifically-established fact that a developing [...]
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I am following the comparative religion pathway to inform my fellow ‘non-believers.’ Comparative Religion: a field of religious study that analyzes the similarities and differences of themes, myths, rituals and concepts among the world’s religions: main world religions are generally classified as Abrahamic, Indian, or Taoic.
For instance: the Bible says nothing about abortion and what [...]
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