GadFly is going to respond to this posting, because it offers an excellent opportunity to point out the flaws in atheist thinking.
This is so contradictory from what you believed in post 204 which I've quoted below;
I think the verbiage in this thread has greatly been exaggerated to a boiling point at times and has been a contest to see who could make the others logic seem foolish. The idea that our logic might be called into question seems to excite the conversation beyond a comfortable level. I for one would like to change that.
You're starting to sound like a polotician....
This is far beyond your limited ability to help both sides find common ground. I don't mean that in a negative way. It is what it is. I do agree, there is no common ground between the atheist and the theist.The differences are huger than the atheist would like for the Christian to believe. In this respect the atheist lives up to his reputation of being subtle until he has captured his prey. For an example, the atheist made their move on China only after the peasants were convinced that communism was not a threat to civil liberties. But look at Tibet even today as we speak. The GadFly does mean this negatively and I do oppose the communist, even if they were to claim to be Christians in America. There is no common ground.
So we can agree that people throughout history and around the world do terrible things or do things that are most unpleasent to others. Atheist do not deny this. This is fact. An example of this can be shown with Hitler.........wait, wait.....I fogot....He was a theist.....maybe using him to confirm your rant was incorrect......Okay....just like those men who hijacked those planes and killed thousands on 9/11.....opps I've done it again....they too were theist........I'm doing this to show you that communism, socialism or whatever isms people are the same. Please let us all not forget the (Inquisitions) where many a men and women were tortured and killed (
YouTube - Catholic Inquisition and The Torture Tools). Consequenlty...we atheist had nothing to do with this brutal slaying. I do believe this chapter in human suffering was orchestrated by theist (christians to be more specific).
See, that's the problem. There is no evidence. Yes, we do see. The problem is that atheist will not acknowledge the evidence.
Okay...we atheist have asked for evidence and finally...a theist with some evidence. Can you lay it out so that we can be informed?...
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness (Ephesians 4). We see that you are alienated from God and you think differently than we do. This is what angers the atheist; we point this out and why it is true.
I see.....it's written in the bible....so that's what makes it true. Dare I say true for you but not true for all. Not all religions or people on the planet share your biblical view. This goes back to what I said earlier.....
("You believe in a god. OK.....We have no problem with it until you focus your belief system on us.")...Post 99.
Look around you. Throughout the world it is not the atheist who are at odds with you. I say this because we truly don't care about you unless you are messing with our civil liberties. Man, is this the pot calling the skittle black? Even the Gadfly would not be dense enough to say something like this.
Why?.......Does truth hurt? It wasn't my intent. It is what it is....
Atheist don't believe in civil liberties (self evident proof of God) and everybody know this.
Who's "everybody"?.......If you don't think we believe in civil liberties then you haven't been paying attention to the news.....