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  1. David M

    If Creationism is True Then Why Say It Was Jehovah?

    Hindu creationists don't make that assumption.
  2. David M

    What are your thoughts on Chruch's refusing to wed gays?

    Its a fact free piece of garbage from the Daily Caller. About par for the course.
  3. David M

    Koran dated to before Muhamad birth.

    Why would you say thay he was illiterate, the Quran (e.g. 25:4-5) and the hadiths say otherwise and he was a successful merchant which implies some literacy and a lot of interaction with Christians and Jews. Denigrating the prophet seems a strange stance to take. Why would you expect any one...
  4. David M

    Yahweh better than Krishna?

    So a narcissitic genocidal jealous God is better than one who is not such a mass-murdering maniac?
  5. David M

    Koran dated to before Muhamad birth.

    Almost no one claims that there was any copy/paste. What is claimed is that the Torah and the Bible were sources for many things that were put in the quran.
  6. David M

    Koran dated to before Muhamad birth.

    Why would you thimk that a full translation would be needed? A fair degree of tranmission of religion would have been oral, literacy levels were not that high in the poorer classes.
  7. David M

    Koran dated to before Muhamad birth.

    lol. Are you seriously suggesting that people of that era were incapable of learning more than 1 language? Latin and Greek were still widely used in the middle east in the period and the Bible had been translated into greek and latin well before then, Christianity had spread as far as Yemen by...
  8. David M

    Koran dated to before Muhamad birth.

    Which means nothing. Uthman did not write the first quran. He compiled the "official quran" and destroyed other copies. Which means that there were other copies that predate the one he had completed. Islamic history already states there were earlier copies. If this quran is so early then its...
  9. David M

    What do people think "atheist" means?

    Only the last is close to being correct. Its whether something is knowable at all, not whether we know ourselves. A Gnostic Theist can say that they believe a God exists but they personally dont know for certain. What matters is that they hold the view that it is possible to know for certain.
  10. David M

    What do people think "theist" means?

    If you know that the sun exists and is one of your Gods it would seem silly to say that you have no belief that the sun exists and is one of your gods.
  11. David M

    What do people think "theist" means?

    Belief covers both cases, someone can believe but not know but if they know then they do also believe.
  12. David M

    What do people think "theist" means?

    A theist is someone who believes in the existence of a theistic god or gods i.e. those that intervene in the world. Includes the 2 most common categories of human religion monotheism and polytheism (of course some theistic religions may have other elements such as animism which is present in...
  13. David M

    What do people think "atheist" means?

    Believing that a God exists is, to all intents and purposes, a claim that a God exists.
  14. David M

    “The Koran Is Borrowed”: Hitchens claim; refuted.

    Unless you acknowledge the source of the material, which the Quran does (paasurreys ignorance of this fact does not refute it). So it would be wrong to claim that the Quran plagiarises the Torah and Bible, but it certainly borrows from it.
  15. David M

    Anti semitisam

    The latter is not anti-semitism, its directed equally at all religions as well as the non-religious.
  16. David M

    Anti semitisam

    And historic inertia, it could be argued that there is less around today than in at times pre-20th century. Mass exile from countries and comprehensive seizure of assets all took place in Europe in the past,
  17. David M

    What do people think "atheist" means?

    Incorrect. A = Without Theos = God (strictly speaking a theistic God). An atheist is simply someone who lacks theistic beliefs. Within the umbrella of atheism there is the subset who lack belief in a god and also believe that there are no Gods, this is what has been termed Strong Atheism...
  18. David M

    Atheism is not a default position

    What you have been saying is that "a" means opposite, it doesn't. The root of the word means "without" which is not the same as opposite. Disbelief is not the same as lack of belief. The former is a positive position whereas the latter is not.
  19. David M

    Atheism is not a default position

    That is how i started :)
  20. David M

    Atheism is not a default position

    One definition of anti-theism is "denial of the existence of a God". Strong Atheism (a newer term) has become synonymous with that version of anti-theism.
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