That may or may not be true and besides, many believers can't agree on what follows the death.
Perhaps, but the probability of such beings existing is about 1 ÷ infinity squared.
Life itself is a means to an end. Why clutter it up with worrying about what's at the end of it?
What is the destination? Some people think there are various different versions of each of heaven, hell, and in between while others think the destination is 6' under or an urn.
I think you are wrong there. He has stated several times things that could not possibly be, and Dex has refuted them. So have I and a few others. At any rate, the nnumber of times people refute what he spews is dwindling because no-one is taking him very seriously anymore.
Prove it without using it as testimony for itself.
I disbelieve because I have not seen ANY evidence of deities' existences. Why should I fear things that don't exist? If there are loving gods then why would anyone need to fear them?
That's merely your opinion. I have about the same opinion of you. So what?
The purpose of MY life is to enjoy it. I suppose other people have different purposes for theirs.
I think the biggest benefit is not having to waste a vast amount of our lives on the speculation of what comes after death.
The absence of evidence, the ability to reason, and the calculation of probabilities.
Again, you claim facts that cannot be proven.
If such nonsense is true, then it would make sense that if a person was a good person then they would be rewarded for that in spite of whether they believed in gods n faeries or not.
You can't seem to get it through your thick head, can you? Of course the excuse would be that there was insufficient evidence.
What's the exam about?
It is not a certainty that the students will fail just because they haven't prepared for this exam. My gosh you make an awful lot of ASS umptions.
Who cares?
Nuts. Refuting by disbelievers is as valid as the refuting from the believers. In FACT, there is more evidence pointing to the nonexistence of these beings than there is evidence substantiating them. For instance, there are a few items of speculation as the the date of creation link, but there is an overwhelming bundle of evidence stuff existed looooooooong before these dates.
That's only your opinion. Mine's different. So?
Out of fear that they'll be punished if they don't do those things? I think not.
Unfortunately, life isn't like that. Christians think they have the one and only god, same with Muslims, a few other religions think the previous ones are nuts and there are MANY gods, etc. and they fight amongst themselves because of these speculations. It is foolish.
it is not that I believe eannasir has been refuted several times about several things, I KNOW he has. You have no argument and your assertion that he has not been refuted is wrong.
Good point, assuming that the existence of said creature were fact. Besides that Dex (among others) has mentioned that if there is indeeed such a creature, it is not one of love and compassion.
No, but I don't think your refuting eannasir was an issue.
Dead, by any reasonable measure. As are the old Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Assyrian, etc. gods. In fact all the gods humanity's ever talked about but one, are clearly dead. Any modern Jew, Christian, or Muslim, would argue that those were all false gods, they've got the lock on the one real one. But realistically, there's no argument that can be made in favour of his existence that doesn't equally well apply to all the dead ones. From which I conclude that it's all BS, they're human inventions, myths that have very little to do with reality except in the form of archetypal stories about the human condition. They have a certain didactic and pedagogic value, but they can't be taken as literally true. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no demons, no supernatural beings of any sort, from omnipotent gods to tooth fairies. It's all mythology. It's not without purpose or meaning, but it's not literally true either, it's metaphorical.
