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  1. Monk Of Reason

    The Problem of Misinformation

    On the one hand we have Faux News and on the other we have MSNBC (Misleading Sham News Bull**** Center). In the middle we have NBC (Negligently Biased Content) and ABC (Agitate, Berate, Confuse). Abroad we have BBC (British Bull**** Center). The misinformation is eyebrow deep across the board...
  2. Monk Of Reason

    Atheism

    Its been stated a few times already in this thread but I believe the core issue is that people who sweep your religious arguments aside or refuse to give respect to religious ideas strike a deep part of theists. I've had plenty of conversations where theists were very upset with me because I...
  3. Monk Of Reason

    The Book of Mormon vs. The King James Version of the Bible

    There seems to be zero evidence however that any other ancestors other than what we have discovered (all of course being from Asia) in their history. It would be a false assumption to think that only ever one migration happened that is for sure. But it isn't a false assumption to say that no...
  4. Monk Of Reason

    Just Accidental?

    I know how cars are made. If I see a car and I can deduce that it was made in a factory. With people we can look at the evolutionary line. Simple as that. Death is th least foreign concept imaginable to life. And if we had evolved an acceptance of death rather than an aversion then we wouldn't...
  5. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    But what is yoru belief system based on?
  6. Monk Of Reason

    United Nations to ban religion?

    This is most likely not true. The Gospel of John was written anonomously between 90 and 110 AD. So at the earliest estimate it would have been some 60 years after Jesus's death. Some loose Catholic tradition has retroactively given credit to John for revalation but it too was written...
  7. Monk Of Reason

    How did you end up with your religion?

    Do you no longer fail?
  8. Monk Of Reason

    Why didn't the Obama administration veto the recent UN resolution on Israel

    The bigger question is why did the majority of the UN come to that conclusion? Why would the president be inclined to go against it unless it was unfair favor to Israel. We need to stop supporting such a country to the degree that we do. They are not the innocent bystanders to the wars on their...
  9. Monk Of Reason

    Just Accidental?

    Let me re-phrase. We know where the bus comes from. We track down the evidence. We find out. We do the same thing with everything else. However making buses and making life ends up being very differnet. So the evidence points in a different direction. The heart has no bearing on fact. I really...
  10. Monk Of Reason

    United Nations to ban religion?

    I don't really have much more to respond here. I am left with the previous point still standing. Most of what you have said here is true. The 66 is different than the much older cannon of the Catholics which is differnet still to the Eastern Orthodox which is differnet than the Jewish text which...
  11. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    Pantheism often comes with a strong concept of sentience or purpose to the universe. That is drastically different than atheism.
  12. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    We can play the semantics game if you'd like. The term "belief" itself has many meanings. I believe that the belief of ect ect ect isn't always a void argument. A belief can be valid or based on evidence. Some beliefs are not. The colloquial usage of the term in English has everything from...
  13. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    Could you believe it though? Could you choose to believe in Christianity right now? I don't think you could. I can't respect their arguments that is for sure. I try my hardest to respect people but that doesn't always last.
  14. Monk Of Reason

    Mars Colonists Will Be Free From Satan!!!

    No no. This is true. This is very true. In Mars none of the Christian figures can reach you. However the Mars satan can get you. And he is mean.
  15. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    I think with effort we can curb whatever beliefs we have and develop new ones. I think people who are racist or have some other discriminatory beliefs but don't want to have them can take actions to change their beliefs. But one who is actually racist cannot simply stop being racist at an...
  16. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    I don't think we choose our beliefs and lack thereof so easily. I don't think someone who believes in god can simply "choose" to be an atheist at any given point in time. Typically atheists find themselves one day as atheists. Its a realization that they didn't choose.
  17. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    But you do understand that I don't have a positive belief that there is no god? A passive disbelief more accuratly describes it. Its not a creed I follow and it isn't something I adhere to. I simply live my life as if there is no god because that is my assumption based on my disbelief. Are we...
  18. Monk Of Reason

    Trying To Understand Atheism

    Mostly because it isn't true. You are used to the belief vs counter belief arguments. You don't believe in Islam because you already believe in christianity so that is a no go. Atheism isn't a counter belief in the same sense. It is simply the rejection of the belief itself without setting a...
  19. Monk Of Reason

    United Nations to ban religion?

    I mean can you name any secular sources claiming to have done Jesus's miracles? And the fishy part isn't about his teachings (well not the part I am referring to) it is the fact that if someone fed five thousand people with a miracle, that he walked on water, that he rose people from the dead...
  20. Monk Of Reason

    Just Accidental?

    Animals are not programed in the same way computers are. You keep attempting to force the two together. "I carved this stick. How can something have such complex shape if no one carved it? How can you not believe in an all mighty carver?" Many animals mourn. Dogs, cats, elephants...
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