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Can Any Of The Ab Bible Quoters Help Me?
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I have a vague memory of Biblical quotes wherein Jehovah exhorts his chosen people to smite the Midianites and to destroy them and their cattle and their children and to spare only the women who please them so that they may do with them as they see fit.
I hope my memory is playing me false. Perhaps someone with more Biblical knowledge can put me right?
I hope my memory is playing me false. Perhaps someone with more Biblical knowledge can put me right?
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Khandro, I asked you a question the other day which remains unanswered. What did Dawkins say that leads you to believe he’s a clown - and what evidence do you have to support your conclusion?
As for waiting for evidence of the existence of God …. unless you produce the goods, as I expect you to, I suspect the world will wait forever.
As for waiting for evidence of the existence of God …. unless you produce the goods, as I expect you to, I suspect the world will wait forever.
Pixie, //Everyone is officially "agnostic",//
Not so. The potential existence of supernatural gods isn’t a consideration for me. In the absence of any evidence whatsoever I’ve long rejected the notion.
By the way, although some tend to think of an agnostic as a ‘don’t know’, the word actually means a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God - so it would be more accurate really to say an agnostic is a believer.
Khandro, and still no answer. No surprise.
Not so. The potential existence of supernatural gods isn’t a consideration for me. In the absence of any evidence whatsoever I’ve long rejected the notion.
By the way, although some tend to think of an agnostic as a ‘don’t know’, the word actually means a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God - so it would be more accurate really to say an agnostic is a believer.
Khandro, and still no answer. No surprise.
It doesn't, naomi. "Agnostic" means "without knowing" - and frankly, no human in the world had ever completely "known". So we are all agnostic.
From my pov, I'm an atheist- as I don't believe in God. However- I would change my mind, if it was ever proved otherwise.
Tbh, after thousands of years of genuine attempts- nobody has ever managed to prove anything yet, and I doubt they ever will.
From my pov, I'm an atheist- as I don't believe in God. However- I would change my mind, if it was ever proved otherwise.
Tbh, after thousands of years of genuine attempts- nobody has ever managed to prove anything yet, and I doubt they ever will.
Naomi ; "the word actually means a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God - so it would be more accurate really to say an agnostic is a believer."
To say that an agnostic is a believer is likely to mislead a believer in god to think that an agnostic is just as bad or good or valid as he or she is. I could say that you believe that your above statement is true, but it would be rather silly to call you a believer. I think that the word believe implies what we would call faith; I don't think you can equate faith in god (or unicorns or fairies etc) as being as sensible as provisional belief in stuff which is supported by a lot of evidence but which is a belief quite open to change if more evidence is provided.
To say that an agnostic is a believer is likely to mislead a believer in god to think that an agnostic is just as bad or good or valid as he or she is. I could say that you believe that your above statement is true, but it would be rather silly to call you a believer. I think that the word believe implies what we would call faith; I don't think you can equate faith in god (or unicorns or fairies etc) as being as sensible as provisional belief in stuff which is supported by a lot of evidence but which is a belief quite open to change if more evidence is provided.
Disagree Pixie.
I'm not agnostic; I know, without even the merest scintilla of doubt, there is no god. As far as I'm concerned, I know there is no god because the very premise is so absurd that it is laughable.
There is an equal amount of proof of god as there is of leprachauns - none; yet if I swore blind faith in leprachauns, I'd be carted off to the looney-bin (although, of course, there's an argument, I've just made up that, people who believe in god voluntarily go to a looney bin every week for an hour or so on a Sunday!
I'm not agnostic; I know, without even the merest scintilla of doubt, there is no god. As far as I'm concerned, I know there is no god because the very premise is so absurd that it is laughable.
There is an equal amount of proof of god as there is of leprachauns - none; yet if I swore blind faith in leprachauns, I'd be carted off to the looney-bin (although, of course, there's an argument, I've just made up that, people who believe in god voluntarily go to a looney bin every week for an hour or so on a Sunday!
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