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    The Folly of Atheism

    But believing that Jesus is God - thus has risen from the dead - is not nonsense. Only the stupider sort of atheist imagines belief in God's existence to be nonsensical. And why shouldn't God have taken on human nature and walked the earth ? And what makes you think that Jesus was NOT (as He...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    But it isn't self-defeating. The complexity and rationality and smooth-functioning (it survives !) of the universe, are excellent arguments for God's existence. "Make believe entity" ? You are ASSUMING A PRIORI that God is make-believe ! But that assumption can't be made.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Common sense. The conflicting wills (of more than one god) couldn't create anything.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Well, something or someone did ! God being the only reasonable possibility.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Whether consciousness - let alone personality - is caused by being a collection of cells, is doubtful in the extreme. And why should anyone who kills a mere collection of cells (= ANY human being !), be punished for doing so ? If it's perfectly OK to kill a mere collection of cells like a...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    But science can't supplant art any more than it can supplant religion.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Wrong. Many Christians were murdered in the Soviet Union for NO OTHER reason than their religious faith - and sometimes likewise under Mao. Hitler was a renegade Christian who hated Christianity, blaming it for pacifism and Communism; and in turn hated the Jews for having caused Christianity...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    The New Testament dates from the highly-civilised and well-educated days of the Roman Empire. Bronze Age ? - er, no.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    God took on human nature and died in agony on the Cross, not sparing Himself. Why does God allow evil to exist ? - because He is Love and a libertarian, not a puppet-master.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    The difference between a cell (or any number of cells) and a foetus is too vast - and too obvious - for the question you raise to be worth discussion. Or do you regard yourself as merely a collection of cells ? Certainly no one else does or ever has done.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    A sperm cell has no potential other than to be able to fertilise an egg. It is alive, but is not a human being. A foetus is. On your basis, killing a few (living !) cells of someone's body by deliberately scratching that person, should be regarded by the courts as murder.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Mainly 32 or 1.5 million creators or any other number one plucks out of the air. But there's only One Creator, in fact..
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    The Folly of Atheism

    The premeditated killing of civilians in war (of babies in particular) is universally regarded as a war crime, or extremely close. Laws are mutable. The principles on which they are largely based are not, however. What was wrong in the Stone Age is wrong now, and vice versa. Each of us has a...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Myth merely means "story." It is often used, enthusiastically, by Fake Intellectuals in their attacks on Christianity.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    The origin of the universe was due either to Chance or to God. And must have been. Appealing to Science doesn't help you at all - since the question "Does God exist ?" is a philosophical one, on which science has precisely zero to say. The questions "What created the universe ?" and (even...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Fanatics often die fighting for their beliefs. E.g. Mohammed's earliest follows fought and died for their belief in his message - but they were warriors, seeking victory and power. The earliest Christians died as peaceful, unresisting martyrs for their belief that Jesus, being God, had risen...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    No - the universe has come into existence. Ergo, has a creator. QED.
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    The Folly of Atheism

    But science has done ONLY that - namely to understand the functioning of the universe ! It hasn't got anything to say about ethics, philosophy or religion. Nor has it made anyone a better (as opposed to better-informed) person. Science has also brought us to the brink of Destruction via WMD's...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    Luke's Gospel and Acts - "obviously mythological" containing "implausible BS" ? - your mask of detached impartiality really has fallen off ! You need to stop thinking of everything in black and white. Many people have died for beliefs that WE recognise as false - but who has ever died...
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    The Folly of Atheism

    There's much better evidence for God's existence, in fact - that each of us exists. The historian you mention is also a professional atheist
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