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07 Sep 2012, 11:30 pm

Fnord wrote:

"Richard Dawkins: Evolution is 'not a controversial issue'"

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Landau: "If there were a God that met you after death, what would you say?"

Dawkins: "If I met God, in the unlikely event, after I died? The first thing I would say is, well, which one are you? Are you Zeus? Are you Thor? Are you Baal? Are you Mithras? Are you Yahweh? Which God are you, and why did you take such great pains to conceal yourself and to hide away from us?"

Awesome quote.

If I met God after death, my questions would probably be very similar.

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08 Sep 2012, 12:25 am

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Beautiful.

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08 Sep 2012, 8:03 am

Fnord wrote:

At which point Thor would smite Dawkins with his hammer for failing to tell the difference between him and the others.

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08 Sep 2012, 10:19 am

The_Walrus wrote:

Fnord wrote:

At which point Thor would smite Dawkins with his hammer for failing to tell the difference between him and the others.

I certainly hope the real god isn't a crazy or scary god, because a crazy and scary god would smite or torture anyone for failing to tell the difference between the real god and all the others.

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08 Sep 2012, 11:15 am

It's bull.

I used to actually believe in all that crap, and was made to attend church until I was 11 (2006/07). I finally realised that it was all BS and haven't looked back since, and am always laughing at the stupidity of my parents and others that believe in some mystical man in the sky.

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08 Sep 2012, 12:02 pm

I'm on the nonsense side of things. I don't think the theology makes much internal sense, or much sense when interacting when the broader world either. I mean, one issue to bring up is the trinity.

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08 Sep 2012, 12:14 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

I mean, one issue to bring up is the trinity.

You could tri.

Or would that be three issues?

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08 Sep 2012, 12:29 pm

jdbob wrote:

This image is awesome.

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08 Sep 2012, 12:32 pm

Alfonso12345 wrote:

jdbob wrote:

This image is awesome.

A religion is a cult that has outlived its Founder.

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08 Sep 2012, 3:08 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mmskXXetcg[/youtube]Truly epic.

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08 Sep 2012, 4:51 pm

Meh.

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08 Sep 2012, 4:52 pm

Vigilans wrote:

More importantly, could he create so much KFC chicken that the universe implodes in a delicious Big Crunch™?

Is there a sandwich like that. I actually went to KFC asking for a Big Crunch after seeing that and didn't realize it was a joke cause I was just skimming. It looks so delicious.

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08 Sep 2012, 5:00 pm

How to make a kid's Christmas special, plan now!

After the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve, put away all the Christmas stuff, then put out Easter baskets. When the kids wake up, tell them they have been in a coma for 4 months and they missed Christmas, and Santa said he's not going to bother with them next year.

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08 Sep 2012, 5:58 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

I mean, one issue to bring up is the trinity.

What confuses you about the trinity?

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08 Sep 2012, 7:05 pm

The_Walrus wrote:

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

I mean, one issue to bring up is the trinity.

What confuses you about the trinity?

Yah, I see the trinity as just three aspects. The way I thought about it once is the son is the self, the spirit is the relationship between self and other, and the father is the totality. Just as Jesus followed the dove into the wilderness of his own psyche to find his divinity, so can we too.

It could also be that the Father is the logos, the spirit is feminine wisdom that unveils the logos, and the son is the earthly inheritor of self realization. There's really a lot of different ways of looking at it. I think Jesus was more of a master, like the Buddha, who gained or realized his divinity, rather than one who was just granted it through birth. The story of the wilderness leads me to believe this, which is actually an older part of the Christ myth than the virgin birth.

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08 Sep 2012, 9:03 pm

The_Walrus wrote:

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

I mean, one issue to bring up is the trinity.

What confuses you about the trinity?

3 = 1 is a blatant contradiction. It is false and what is more, it is absurd.

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