I love the smell of butthurt in the morning... It smells like... LULZ...
Sam Harris wrote:Angus McAwesome wrote:Sam Harris wrote:I have to agree with the statement about not blaming God for cancer when you don't believe in God, but I've seen too many atheists, remember, those people who don't believe in God, make statements to the effect of, "well, why didn't God do this?". Um, newsflash, you don't believe in God...so the question is moot.
Why is it a moot question? It's perfectly fine for Christians to profess their belief and question the beliefs of atheists with "well god DOESN'T exist how come...", but it's wrong if atheist do the same because they don't believe in god? Explain to me how that works, guy.
You obviously cannot read, because I stated my contempt for FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS right along with my blazing contempt for FUNDAMENTALIST ATHEISTS. I don't like it when Fundie Christians thump their bibles, either.
Still does not explain why you consider the question to be moot. Also, you say you blame fundamentalist Christians, yet everything you said right there was specifically about atheists and some absurd notion that in order to criticize or question God you must first be a christian to do so.
Here's a hint, next time try answering my questions instead of being a petulant child.
Sam Harris wrote:A fundamentalist atheist as a fool who thinks that only their view is correct, just like a fundamentalist Christian is a fool who thinks only their view is correct. Simple.
So I guess you have no idea what the word "fundamentalist" means... I asked you to tell me what the fundamentals of atheism were, fool. That would help determine what a fundamental atheist is just as well as knowing the fundamentals of Christianity help determine what a fundamental christian is.
Sam Harris wrote:Just like many atheist portray theists in irrational, illogical, and quite frankly dishonest ways?Oh my...
Nice... So your brilliant rebuttle is "WAAAAAAAAAA... They're doing it too!"
Sam Harris wrote:But I also separate God from RELIGION....something many fundie athiests cannot do, but their beliefs are in a way a religion.
Ok, how does that work? What is Christianity without god? Separating god from your religion would essentially render you a Sunday social club, as without God included in the deal then the entire belief structure has not reason for being. Seriously, don't believe me? Try reciting the Lord's Prayer without mentioning the Lord.
You're really simple. You can have spirituality without religion. Just because your worldview cannot function otherwise, doesn't mean that everyone else has to think like you. Some people who believe in God do not believe in Christianity. That is your myopic nature in play, not that of others.[/quote]
So now you go from "separate religion from God" to "separate religion from spirituality" and continue to evade my questions.
Nice try, fool, but you won't be moving goal posts on my watch.
Sam Harris wrote:People who deify dawkins and harris. One on this board. GOODK HE quotes them on his myspace page, it's quite cute.
Have no idea who GoodK is, but I doubt he has an alter to Dr. Dawkins and Mr. Harris set up in his home that he performs rituals of worship before. But then, by your logic, since I often quote famous people or works of literature or movies or pop culture then I MUST worship them in order to do so.
Seriously, are you feeble?
Sam Harris wrote:LOL
Yeah, that was my reaction when I noticed you attempted to respond and failed utterly.
Sam Harris wrote:Although you've memorized a half a dozen proofs that He doesn't exist, you still think you're God's gift to the ignorant masses.
This one is contradictory, as it starts with an "atheist" that has proofs that god doesn't exit and then claims that the same atheist thinks he is "god's gift", indicating that the "atheist" used in the statement really does believe in god. Which would make them, you know, NOT an atheist.
It's called irony. But that would go over your head, I understand.
Way to miss the point, braintrust. How can someone be an atheist if they profess to be of God? Also, go find a dictionary and learn what the word "irony" means.
Sam Harris wrote:You consistently deny the existence of God because you personally have never seen him but you reject out of hand personal testimony from theists who claim to have experienced God as a reality in their lives.
Denying the existence of something for which there is not actual evidence for is rational. Dismissing the claims of people who say they have seen something for which there is no evidence for is also rational. By this statement's logic, since I deny that Big Foot exists and deny the claims of people who say that Big Foot does exist, I am wrong for asking them to provide evidence of Big Foot.
Once again you show how slow you are. You're using your personal experiencs to Trump someone else's personal experiences, claiming it's ok because they used their personal experiences to try to Trump yours. Next!
Wow, so asking for evidence for extraordinary claims in now an "anecdote"? Fact: There is no physical evidence for either God or Big Foot, therefore people who insist that either exist must provide evidence for it or else deal with people doubting their claims.
If you weren't such an obvious Fundamental Christian shill (who the hell are you trying to kid, girl), you might understand that.
Sam Harris wrote:You call a view held by less than ten percent of the American public "common sense".
Wow, right here we've got ourselves a real live appeal to popularity fallacy. Because the mob is always right, amirite? I mean, the majority has never been wrong about things like the world being flat, the universe being geocentric, or that black people are that color because they are descended from some guy mentioned in the Bible that killed his brother. All of those are examples of things that the majority of religious people of one denomination or another of Christian has held to be true until someone beat them about the head with evidence to the point where they could no longer deny that their previous views were false.
Like the old saying goes, common sense isn't common.
Nor is rabid insistence on everyone believing like you common sense. I read Harris' BS
Letter to a Christian Nation, and I swear that book was nothing but assumptions about every Christian in this country! He talks like child Kemp and the others, as if he's spoken one-on-one with us all. He's completely ignorant.
Yes, because making a claim and then backing it with hard evidence (e.g. the world is round, the universe isn't geocentric, black people aren't black because of some ancient murder) is "rabid insistence".
Also, have you actually read Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" or did you just have selected quotes toss at you by your pastor shortly before taking his word that harris is an evil Atheist out to destroy the purity of poor persecuted Christians like a gullible, poorly educated, and obviously mentally unstable rube?
You base your prejudice on the assumption that all theists are the same.
Sam Harris wrote:Firstly, I have NO RESPECT WHATSOEVER for people who are demanding respect from theists for their beliefs while using the same tactics the fundamentalist they're fighting are using.
Which is precisely why you employ those exact same tactics yourself, right? Give it up, you're obviously a fundamentalist christian. Stop pretending to be otherwise.
Sam Harris wrote:I know that you have no white man sitting on a cloud to guide you, but use some ethics.
Yes, because the one thing my black ass needs is an invisible white guy living in the sky that only I can see or hear telling me what to do. Also, go buy a damned dictionary already. Seriously, you have no idea what half the word you use means. "use some ethics"...
I know I lol'd!
Sam Harris wrote:You're the shining example, right?
Never made the claim that I was. The entire time you've been the one simultaneously decrying those evil "fundamentalist" atheists while engaging in the EXACT SAME thing you accuse them of.
Sam Harris wrote:Then do not use the same tactics as fundie theists to push your arguments.
Pot/Kettle=Black, braintrust.
Sam Harris wrote:Show the respect you want, wait a minute, that's the Golden Rule, based on theism. So never mind.
Which is precisely why you've been tossing out moronic ad hominem after ridiculous emotional appeal all the time trying to insist that you're not a an overly defensive fundamentalist christian with massive amounts of butthurt over someone daring to commit the heinous crime of asking questions.
Also, since when is the Golden Rule an exclusively religious concept. By all means, provide some evidence for that claim.
Sam Harris wrote:Secondly, when are folks like you going to understand that suffering comes from HUMANS...like you!
Yup, it's all my fault. Suffering, death, cancer in grandmas, some guy running over your dog... It was all part of my master plan all along...
Sam Harris wrote:I guess if there is a God, he needs to make all mankind robots who do right...except for you, you're rational, you wouldn't stand for such nonsense.
Because free will, critical thinking, and asking questions are all so very evil, right?
I swear, if you projected any harder we could point you at a wall and view power point presentations.
Sam Harris wrote:Stalin killed religious folks. That's damned stupid. Can you explain why he chose to persecute the Russian Orthodox church?
Nice red herring, clown. Your idiotic quote said "176 million people lost their lives in wars during the last century, created by non-believers like Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Hitler". Name the war that Joseph Stalin started in order to kill religious folk.
You can't, because no such war exists, idiot.
Sam Harris wrote:A devout Lutheran? Source.
Hitler's father was a Lutheran, Hitler cited Martin Luther's "On Jews and their Lies" as well as mentioning Luther as a "great warrior and statesman". Seriously, did flunk out of junior high or was your school district truly that bad that this wasn't covered during freshman world history in high school? Deny it all you want, but Adolf Hitler and most of the National Socialist Part were Christians.
Sam Harris wrote:I guess because they didn't come out and say that they were going to kill theists before they did it, it was ook.
Once again, what wars did any of them start with the objective of killing "believers"? Name one.
Sam Harris wrote:Typical fundamentalist atheist ignorance, the assumption that I think that any war under any ideology is ok. War in the name of God is just as bad as war without that premise. But you seem to think it's ok so long as God isn't involved. That's laudable.
Nice, so instead of addressing my claims you pull an obvious and incredibly half-assed ad hominem by implying that I support war regardless of the reasons for them and therefore my point is invalid.
Sam Harris wrote:Can you tell me what faith I am, asshat?
You talk like a Fundamentalist Christian, act like a Fundamentalist Christian... For all I know you could come back and say you're a reformed druid, but your actions would still say otherwise, fool.
Sam Harris wrote:My neuro assured me I would give birth to a healthy child. I live with my mortality daily, but that doesn't mean I just KNOW I'm gonna die. You made an assumption to pump up your prejudice. I said I could die, but not that I would.
1. Why are you asking a neurology specialist about something that is obviously the area of specialization of an OB/GYN?
2. Where did I imply that you know your going to die?
3. Do you always respond to a question by being a butthurt juvenile idiot?
Sam Harris wrote:I will focus on being happy that I made it through, thankful to whatever force there is out there that puts the goodness in life, and I'll be thinking about what to do first when I get home with my bundle of joy.
What force other then the skill of the doctors and nurses and the sum of medical science would be involved in your giving birth to a healthy child despite all of your health problems?
Sam Harris wrote:Last time I checked atheists didn't believe in God, but sure spent a lot of time talking about him/her/it/whatever.
There you go again with that absurdity about having to believe in something in order to asking questions critical about it.
Sam Harris wrote:So now, because I'm a theist who has health problems, I'm morally wrong for having a baby.
Where did I say because you're a "theist" (quite bullshiting, you're a Fundamentalist) that you're irresponsible for having a baby with some many risk factors? Also where did I mention morality at all? I said "responsibility", clown.
When you're done being a pathologically dishonest attention whore and ready to have an actual discussion, come on back. Until then, take your butthurt and tell it to someone that gives a rats ass.
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