Why do you believe in God

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/facepalm

And it only took a few thousand years for those specific events to occur in a close enough form for people to point and say "See? Verified prediction.".

Let me know when they start giving actual dates for those predictions.

no one can predict the future.

vague correlations between vague predictions and specific events is not impressive nor is it a real display of any kind of prediction of the future.

sure I can lol

interesting read:

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris ... sp?PID=982



wow. simply wow.


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more interesting read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_i ... ted_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimina ... ted_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Europe

@ cloning Hitler: He would not necessarily even have quite the same facial structure. There is external influence even during prenatal stages.

Also, I doubt that he would spontaneously grow a Nazi-army and a vast base of operations with natural resources, tax-payers and defended borders the way he would grow toenails.

If Hitler 2.0 inherited the artistic aptitudes of his predecessor but had become a successful artist where his predecessor failed ... maybe Hitler 2.0 would have been entirely content being an artist and not a quasi-messianical leader of men. If the 2nd generation Hitler had attained self-actualization, ie. the apex of Maslow's pyramid, in some wholly benign and innocuous fashion ...

Nature vs. Nurture ....

I love these intellectual exercises.

Indeed.

This is nothing more than argument from authority (ironic comming from someone named orwell). Sweden and Japan, who have the highest degrees of organic atheism, also have the lowest crime rates.

Nietzche doesn't jive with reality.

Nietzche didn't carry out his visions. If he did he'd be a prophet. Have you read "Thus Spoke Zarathustra? He stopped at a stage where he didn't follow through. That is his appeal to today's generation of slackers. Plus, he had brain damage from a sexually transmitted disease.

Syphilis? Did Nietzche have syphilis?

Which deity? Hint: more than one religion out here.

Ilmarinen?
Bride?
Wodan?
Cybele?
Pallas-Athene?

It fulfills two basic human needs: the need to believe and the need to belong. Everybody needs to believe in & belong to something greater than themselves.

And if that answer doesn't satisfy you, none will.

Yup. Spent his last years locked up, too. His mind finally broke when he saw a horse being whipped.

There are 7 other planets which are not the right distance from the Sun in our Solar System. In the Milky Way and other galaxies in the universe, there are millions if not billions of planets which are also the wrong distance from the star which they are orbiting. When you have so many of these planets, chances are that at least one of them will have the conditions required to support life. Since the Earth has the right conditions to support life, life was able to thrive on this planet.

We are carbon based life forms. There may be other life forms, e.g. silicon based, which are able to withstand temperatures and conditions which we would consider extreme. And those silicon based life forms, if they exist, will probably think that the temperature on Earth is either too hot or too cold for them.



Natural selection

Japan is not atheist. They adhere very strongly to ancestral worship

OK then AspieAtheistAlly, if morality is not derived from the Word of God (ie Divine Command Theory) where does it come from? Most other moral theories collapse in on themselves and leave you with moral nihilism. For most individuals, and for society as a whole, that is a problem. Demonstrate to me, outside of a theistic framework, where morality comes from.

And the "but you're named Orwell! you should hold XYZ beliefs!" card gets really, really old. I'm not a socialist, I'm not an atheist, and I'm not a paranoid conspiracy freak. I admire Orwell's literary works and was in a cynical mood a year and a half ago when I registered on this forum. I don't have to be a carbon-copy of Eric Arthur Blair, and I don't try to be.