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Confused people like you should not be telling us your facts, as you constantly make absurd assertions that are easy to refute if you think about them.
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Originally Posted by cb2008
So odd you state that as a threat.
So odd you read something that is not there.
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Thing is I dont see those posts as proselytizing, it doesn't affect me. Maybe it affects you, then I can see how you need a protected space, poor thing.
Ha, you are back to misrepresenting. Perhaps if you stopped misrepresenting atheists (and patronizing those who recognize you are faking it) we would not constantly correct your misrepresentations.
It may have escaped your notice that your posts and Mystics have a habit of killing threads (along with a few other empty egos). Now think how more difficult that would be if we had other religions here constantly trying to tell us how they are correct, and repeating the same refuted arguments over and over. That is why we have the no proselytizing rule, to make actual conversations easier.
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They all believe in the existence of a Higher Power. You dont. If you stop asking for evidence which nobody here cares about providing for you, other than Mystic, we too could have an easier discussion.
Stopping giving opinions as if they are facts, and misrepresenting people. And good luck having a discussion without evidence.
And no, you do not want a discussion, you want to tell us how superior you think you are.
Isn't that exactly what you do in your protected space of AA? Knock yourselves out good and ugly over there. And nobody is stopping you from doing it here either. Just stop with the evidence for something there is none that you can understand, and none that anyone will provide you. If you need evidence for the existence of Higher Power go find it for yourself, it may do you some good. It will keep you from stopping threads here.
You and Mystic have drive the wagon off the track, now you blame others.
Well, there is such a thing as character and courtesy as well.
Yes, and this is perhaps why I don't bother to respond to so many comments in this forum that seem to be about all manner of other than the topic of the thread.
"Character and courtesy" are in this forum something like vegetarians at a steak house...
There can be no pros and cons if the presumption is the subject of the pros and cons doesn't EXIST. That is why the existence question should be persona non grata in the R&S fora except for AA.
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The purpose of this forum is to discuss religion and spirituality. The good (and there is much), the bad, and the ugly.
But questioning the existence of God or asking for evidence of the existence of God is an off-topic derail in most threads, like this one, yet it is not treated as such.
There can be no pros and cons if the presumption is the subject of the pros and cons doesn't EXIST. That is why the existence question should be persona non grata in the R&S fora except for AA.
Why not? Whether God exists or not (or whether reality is God or not), religion can still have pros and cons. For example, people can discuss whether the ten Christian commandments are valid principles to follow if God does exist. And people can discuss whether the ten Christian commandments are valid principles to follow if God does not exist.
Just because someone is an atheist doesn't make religion (as in the human construct) and it's influences in the world disappear. The poster you replied to has tried many times to have discussions about the utility of religion, which can be had even if the truthfulness is in dispute.
Take this thread - the etymology of religion can be discussed regardless of whether a person believes God exists or not.
Yes, and this is perhaps why I don't bother to respond to so many comments in this forum that seem to be about all manner of other than the topic of the thread.
"Character and courtesy" are in this forum something like vegetarians at a steak house...
Yes, and this is perhaps why I don't bother to respond to so many comments in this forum that seem to be about all manner of other than the topic of the thread.
"Character and courtesy" are in this forum something like vegetarians at a steak house...
But questioning the existence of God or asking for evidence of the existence of God is an off-topic derail in most threads, like this one, yet it is not treated as such.
Perhaps I should bow to an expert in that category
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