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#949896
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Religion
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Lord Haseo said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Lord Haseo said:
What about places like Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq?

Again, my Lord, we are not entirely discounting your statements but rather your penchant for over generalization.

And you’re trying to make assessments based on not giving complete information. Nice tactic.

No, I am not. I was pointing out the fallacy in your arguments. I concede it is very dangerous to be a Christian or Jew in the countries you explicitly point out; I was not challenging that, but only pointing out your fallacious generalization. You said that odds are, if you live in the ME and are not a Muslim, you’d be dead. Not true, because most non-Muslims in the ME live in countries where they are concentrated and relatively safe (Israel for Jews, Lebanon for Christians).

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#949867
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Religion
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Lord Haseo said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

No challenge there. All I am saying is that radical Christians/religious people and radical atheists are equally “in your face” about it. So your notion that normal religious folk have the burden of proof based on the idea that some religious folk shove God “in everyone’s faces” is blatantly ignorant and not self-aware.

Atheists shoving their beliefs in people’s faces is a thing that happened in the last few decades. Religious people doing it has spanned thousands of years…

You’re grasping at straws…

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#949862
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Religion
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No challenge there. All I am saying is that radical Christians/religious people and radical atheists are equally “in your face” about it. So your notion that normal religious folk have the burden of proof based on the idea that some religious folk shove God “in everyone’s faces” is blatantly ignorant and not self-aware.

Edit: I don’t challenge the right of Atheists to raise billboards. They have every right. This was not my point.

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#949812
Topic
Religion
Time

Darth Lucas said:

Well to be fair, the burden of proof lies on the person making the claim, not the one disputing it.

But is not the supposition that reality exists spontaneously without some type of creation just as radical a claim as that which states there is some divine overseer?

Frankly, I think it is rather difficult to assign the burden of proof to a particular party in this debate.

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#949803
Topic
Religion
Time

TV’s Frink said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Lord Haseo said:

darth_ender said:
Do a little more research and a little less generalization and you might answer your own questions. I’m done conversing with you. You can stop having your tantrum now.

I haven’t generalized anyone; I have just judged the source of the teachings which is the Bible. You don’t even know what you’re arguing about. But go ahead and play victim.

But yes you have. You have blatantly dismissed an entire faith as misogynistic and homophobic based on a few passages that even most adherents to that same faith believe are ancient relics from a bygone era.

I don’t know about “most adherents” but it is heartening that the number seems to increase daily.

However it is disheartening that people still believe things like “homosexuality is a sin” because God supposedly said so.

Right. Like, none of those same Christians believe BBQing ribs is a sin. Yet that’s in Leviticus too. But the ban on pork existed for serious health reasons. Likewise the various rules on sexuality existed for reasons inherent to that society, and in some cases were actually liberal for the time. Leviticus didn’t mandate homophobia, it was already the dominant societal discourse. To totally reverse course would have been totally shocking. Things like this must change gradually, and they now have. There’s no good reason today to arrest people for sodomy, and even most clergy wouldn’t be in favor of such a thing. Yet many if not most of them remain opposed to gay marriage. It’s an evolutionary process.

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#949778
Topic
Religion
Time

Lord Haseo said:

darth_ender said:
Do a little more research and a little less generalization and you might answer your own questions. I’m done conversing with you. You can stop having your tantrum now.

I haven’t generalized anyone; I have just judged the source of the teachings which is the Bible. You don’t even know what you’re arguing about. But go ahead and play victim.

But yes you have. You have blatantly dismissed an entire faith as misogynistic and homophobic based on a few passages that even most adherents to that same faith believe are ancient relics from a bygone era.

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#949771
Topic
Religion
Time

Lord Haseo said:

Given that there’s over 200 billion Galaxies in our universe it’s pretty much statistically impossible that we’re alone. Now whether there is intelligent life elsewhere is a whole other conversation.

Not necessarily. There are actually some studies that suggest that the likelihood of life—let alone highly intelligent life—emerging in a star system is 1 in “more than the number of stars in the universe.”

In other words, there are some scientists/statisticians who believe that that emergence of life in one solar system out of 200,000,000,000^200,000,000,000 is statistically impossible. Earth by this metric is an outlier. You can attribute that to the shortfalls of statistics, God, whatever suits your fancy.

Also your supposition that statistics prove the existence of life but not intelligent life is kind of odd. If you’re going to make up a stat to prove that life exists elsewhere, why not go one step further and claim evidence that intelligent life must have evolved elsewhere in the last 300B years?

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#949455
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
Time

Smithers said:

I took this quiz on starwars.com and I got Sy Snootles 😦

Something interesting is that the picture that came up was actually a high quality version of the original puppet rather than the CGI abomination version. #OOTconfirmed jk but still noteworthy.

I decided to do a reverse image search on Google. That particular picture exists nowhere else on the web, though there are similar ones. Definitely taken intentionally from internal sources, not off Google images by some lazy intern.

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#949408
Topic
Religion
Time

The very first Christians were Jews, as was Christ. Christianity was essentially a sect of Judaism. They continued to fast, keep kosher, etc. At Pentecost it was decided that gentiles who wished to become Christians did not have to become Jews (i.e., be circumcised). Hence the punishments prescribed in Leviticus are no longer applied.

Edit, this was a reply to movie…