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06-02-2007, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by foundit66  What an idiotic question.
Nobody was talking about al qaeda.
Why the heck would you think he was talking about "al qaeda" when the thread's title, and the context of the earlier statement, was clearly talking about atheism.
I am amazed at how often you reveal yourself to be an idiot.
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As per usual, the point sails streaight over your pin-shaped head and you go back to your playground insults.
Let's spell it out for your benefit:
Both atheism and Al Qaeda are gaining new adherents. So what?
Does this have anything at all to do with the morality or righteousness of those groups?
Absolutely not
No. It's fairly accurate for some.
I can't tell you how many Christians I have bumped into that are incapable of reasoning for themselves.
It's not indicative of all, or even most in my opinion.
But it is an obviously predictable side-effect of any religion which pretends to know things definitively, and demands the followers believe despite the facts. | Your limited, anecdotal experiences and jaundiced bigotry against Christians are noted
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06-02-2007, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by garysher As per usual, the point sails streaight over your pin-shaped head and you go back to your playground insults. | Ahh. The irony.
I got your attempted "point", and I exposed its flaws.
You attempted to criticize atheism by comparing it to al Qaeda with absolutely ridiculous comparisons.
So I simply used your own tactics against you.
And predictably, you can't handle or address my point, so YOU YOURSELF resort to insults like "pin-shaped head" as you whine about my arguments being "playground insults".
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Originally Posted by garysher Both atheism and Al Qaeda are gaining new adherents. So what? | Again, you show a repeated incapability to grasp simple concepts.
Atheism is gaining adherents because of knowledge. Facts.
al Qaeda? What knowledge and facts are giving them new members???
And be prepared to substantiate your claims. Quote: |
Originally Posted by garysher Does this have anything at all to do with the morality or righteousness of those groups? | Was anybody talking about the morality or righteousness of those groups?
That is you trying to change the subject. AGAIN. As usual.
You can't address the points at hand, so you desparately try to change the subject with lame and stupid comparisons.
al Qaeda is immoral and lacking in "righteousness" because of their terroristic actions, killing people.
Now, what can we say about "atheists" that compares to that???  Quote: |
Originally Posted by garysher Your limited, anecdotal experiences and jaundiced bigotry against Christians are noted | Yeah.
Oooh. "Noted"...
But predictably not countered.
You're impotent as usual...
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06-13-2007, 05:13 PM
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06-13-2007, 05:17 PM
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Country: Level up: 87%, 13 Points needed | | oh and I feel it worth mentioning even if I'm skeptical about it due to the person who did it. A study gave an average IQ of 5 higher in atheists from a sample of 10,000 people I think it was, assuming my main computer is fixed by the time I get home this weekend (unlikely seeing as my dad said he was planning on buying a new one and he had no idea what was going on with it)I'll be able to send you links for everything I've said. Failing that I'll look them up again monday.
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06-13-2007, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by the_eliot_one oh and I feel it worth mentioning even if I'm skeptical about it due to the person who did it. A study gave an average IQ of 5 higher in atheists from a sample of 10,000 people I think it was, assuming my main computer is fixed by the time I get home this weekend (unlikely seeing as my dad said he was planning on buying a new one and he had no idea what was going on with it)I'll be able to send you links for everything I've said. Failing that I'll look them up again monday. | If you convert to Christianity you could wipe out that IQ differential overnight!
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06-13-2007, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by garysher If you convert to Christianity you could wipe out that IQ differential overnight! | Hypothetically, raising Christians up by lowering the IQ points of others???
By having the atheists "dumb" themselves down?
If that was an attempted joke, it was an extremely poor one...
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06-13-2007, 08:42 PM
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06-13-2007, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by hevusa We can only hope for a more spiritually honest future. Gary's posts show why. | Eh he is going to hell no questions asked...though im not sure Satan would want him either the way he acts here.
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06-13-2007, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by hevusa We can only hope for a more spiritually honest future. Gary's posts show why. |
You are the "impartial moderator" who gave me an infraction because you couldn't bear my faith in God and Christianity?
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Sorry, I don't negotiate with terrorists who hi-jack the idea of God. 
How sad that you let your godless opinions affect your serious role as a DTT moderator!
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06-13-2007, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by OhDear I see at this blog that atheism is gaining momentum as one of the largest belief systems in the world. Here... Just sharing it with everyone here who likes to talk about belief vs. disbelief. OD | You just made an excellent case for the seperation of church and state. | |
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