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Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-09-17, 17:38

Replies: 11 Christian preachers are not there to save our souls. Views: 161 Posted By Tyrant Re: Christian preachers are not there to save our souls. The idea of belief being the only necessary qualification for entering Heaven is a wholesomely modern Protestant ethic. Catholicism defined work in easily quantifiable manners - the tithe, the amount...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-09-17, 17:12

Replies: 7 ...? Can someone explain this for me... Views: 98 Posted By Tyrant Re: ...? Can someone explain this for me... Only if you're playing World of Warcraft.

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-29, 04:01

Replies: 29 Calling God 'Him' Views: 512 Posted By Tyrant Re: Calling God 'Him' I don't think the harmony of the macrocosm being the direct response of a prime mover acting on inert matter is an easier idea to accept so long as the aforementioned mover shares my ability to have...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-24, 13:24

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion 1. I'm only trying to draw the line that separates "world religion" as it pertains to our discussion from "sketch for Dungeons & Dragons character religion." 2. A baby eater does not have his own...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-23, 16:06

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion ...nothing else to add, Rust?

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-23, 16:05

Replies: 29 Calling God 'Him' Views: 512 Posted By Tyrant Re: Calling God 'Him' Viking cultures treated women in their society with very high regard and sentiment, and recognized their status among their ranks as peers, the same way their mythology reflects it within the...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-19, 02:19

Replies: 29 Calling God 'Him' Views: 512 Posted By Tyrant Re: Calling God 'Him' ...for the same reason.

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-18, 20:22

Replies: 29 Calling God 'Him' Views: 512 Posted By Tyrant Re: Calling God 'Him' God is a male for the same reason the earth is female; the life that emerges from the earth does so by virtue of being impregnated by rain and sunlight from the sky. Next question.

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-18, 20:14

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion If the Supreme Court is your authority on what a religion is, you should be strangled.

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-18, 19:48

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion 1. A religion on the world stage is not invented; it is born the same way culture and language is. That's how a religion earns credibility on the world stage. 2. An ethic that says not to eat...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-17, 04:12

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion 1. The religions you invent in your room have nothing to do with the world stage of religions, and therefore have no place in our discussion. On the world stage, Semitic faiths are only three...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-15, 04:20

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion If an ethic is subject to the assumptions of the believer or the whims of temporal politics, then it's not an ethic; it's an opinion.

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-07-06, 00:10

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion 1. Exclusively studying butterflies will not yield information about caterpillars. Same principle applies here with your discrepancy. Studying a Chinese man who is a Christian by virtue of...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-06-29, 12:38

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion Rust: 1. We are not concerned with the quantity of modern believers in modern religions; there is already a multitude of contemporary perversions at work that separate modern man and his...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-06-24, 15:51

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion Rust: 1. The quantity of believers does nothing to validate or invalidate a religion or its authority any more than the number of people who watch "I Love New York" proves that any participant on...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-06-24, 04:08

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion It's a different kind of appeal, but it's still there. Religions serve as an explaination -any explaination- to questions that people can't easily answer. There are people out there (stupid people...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-06-21, 02:40

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion Firstly, I don't buy the "emotional crutch" explanation of religion because only a handful of religions really appeal to emotions - mostly the Semitic ones. You couldn't possibly convince me that Zen...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-06-17, 01:52

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion After reading the Wikipedia article on memes, all I have to say is: "So?" So religious interpretation evolves over extended periods of time. Big deal; language does the same thing. Should this...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-06-04, 18:00

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion That's a pretty interesting article; I'll have to do more research on this gene. However, whether this does or does not correlate to spirituality doesn't change the question at hand. If this...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-05-30, 22:28

Replies: 10 Any one have logical explaination. Views: 297 Posted By Tyrant Re: Any one have logical explaination. The fundamental premise of someone being "ignorant" is that they must "ignore" the obvious. Thus my quote above. And as for religious people turning atheist, this usually happens by the same...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-05-30, 22:22

Replies: 47 Church of Atheism Views: 980 Posted By Tyrant Re: Church of Atheism Didn't say that. What I am saying, if you had paid attention, is that religion should not be disregarded as an "emotional blanket," since (A) not all religions offer one; (B) not all human beings...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-05-30, 21:48

Replies: 107 The Obliteration of Religion Views: 1,929 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Obliteration of Religion As long as I've been on this forum, I've found not a single atheist who can answer this question for me: If religion is such an unnatural state of mind ("religion" in the actual meaning of the...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-05-24, 02:58

Replies: 15 Does anyone here believe in astrology? Views: 285 Posted By Tyrant Re: Does anyone here believe in astrology? The alignment of the cosmos affects the human body on a daily basis. The moon coming closer to the earth fucks with a person's blood flow, and I can't imagine that an altered blood flow during a...

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-05-13, 17:02

Replies: 5 The Bible Views: 129 Posted By Tyrant Re: The Bible The same way we know tabloids aren't true without reading them.

Forum: My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God 2007-05-13, 16:42

Replies: 31 Free will. Views: 733 Posted By Tyrant Re: Free will. Thank you for the endorsement, Hex. I was starting to think no one was paying attention at all. I don't understand why people are so in love with the idea of free will. In tangible reality alone,...

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