Rational Faith

El Barto

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The Beatles were as popular as Christianity in their day. Would it be rational to think they were bearers of god's word? Religion is ego based. It appeals to the emotions. Rationality has nothing to do with it. It is about as rational as teen age girls screaming at a Justin Bieber concert.

Hmmm. I wonder if motar and cj44 were those kinds of girls in their day?
OMNEG Cliffy !!!!! I just saw a Scientology Commercial on tv !!!!!!! :shock:

The Beatles were as popular as Christianity in their day. Would it be rational to think they were bearers of god's word? Religion is ego based. It appeals to the emotions. Rationality has nothing to do with it. It is about as rational as teen age girls screaming at a Justin Bieber concert.

Hmmm. I wonder if motar and cj44 were those kinds of girls in their day?
Hey did Jacka$$ ever pull the stunt of receiving confession inn the booth?
 

Dexter Sinister

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"Rational faith" is being discussed outside this forum, Dex. A Google search produces about 23,300,000 results. That is a significant number of discussions about "nothing at all."
That's a meaningless statistic and a deliberate twisting of what I said, they're no more about "nothing at all" than this one is. The number of people who think something is true has nothing at all to do with whether or not it's actually true. There are a billion Muslims in the world, does that mean they must be right? How about you check all 23,300,000 discussions and report on how many of them have people saying exactly what I'm saying.
 

El Barto

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Do you think Tom Cruise will be the first scientology saint ?




OMNEG again with that damn commercial
 

Motar

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That's a meaningless statistic and a deliberate twisting of what I said, they're no more about "nothing at all" than this one is. The number of people who think something is true has nothing at all to do with whether or not it's actually true. There are a billion Muslims in the world, does that mean they must be right? How about you check all 23,300,000 discussions and report on how many of them have people saying exactly what I'm saying.

You're a good sport, Dex. I really like your tenacity : )

In this forum, the "Rational Faith" discussion (589) has surpassed the "Christian Intolerance" thread (548 ) in posts. Relatively speaking, does that diminish the Christian intolerance statement? Now that we're discussing statistics, are we approximating rational thought?
 

Tecumsehsbones

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You're a good sport, Dex. I really like your tenacity : )

In this forum, the "Rational Faith" discussion (589) has surpassed the "Christian Intolerance" thread (548 ) in posts. Relatively speaking, does that diminish the Christian intolerance statement? Now that we're discussing statistics, are we approximating rational thought?
Not the way you're using them.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Careful, TBones. By adding another post in this thread you may be inadvertently adding to the relative credibility of it : )
Nothing wrong with this thread. Your circular arguments, tautologies, logical fallacies, and complete failure to produce the first shred of evidence for the existence of a god are, without a doubt, quite illuminating to the readers.
 

Cliffy

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It is very difficult to have a rational discussion with someone who ignores the obvious elephant in the room. Actually, there is getting to be a herd of elephants in the room that are being ignored.

Why does God have to be Christian?
Because their book says so. They have a copyright on all things god, dontcha know.
 

Motar

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It is very difficult to have a rational discussion with someone who ignores the obvious elephant in the room. Actually, there is getting to be a herd of elephants in the room that are being ignored.

Now we're discussing politics, Cliffy? I don't know how many Conservatives we have in this discussion but I don't think we should ignore them just because of their party affiliation.