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Dexter345 677 posts 04-15-04 15:29 Reply	"Why should we bother fathoming the idea of more than one God when there isn't?" said the religious one. The Atheist replied, "Why should we bother fathoming the idea of any god at all when there isn't one?" Fortunately, Dexter stepped in and said, "Shut up, both of you. We've been through this before, hundreds of times. Neither of you know absolutely what the truth is." And then they all rejoiced, and broke eggs on each others' heads. -Dexter345-
Melazyboy 113 posts 04-15-04 18:41 Reply	... broken-egg on head fetish is it? Well thats one I haven't heard of before I see another niche market opening.
Melazyboy 113 posts 04-15-04 18:42 Reply	and because you truly are the omniscient god. Why don’t you give us something to ‘talk’ about on the forum so wrongfully titled religion =?
Dexter345 677 posts 04-15-04 18:48 Reply	Talking's fine. Talk all you want. The only thing I was pointing out was that Jeremiah leads the discussion into the SAME area every single time. You know the place. The "I'm right so why should I believe anything else?" place. We've been through there. MANY times. It gets old. Not meaning to pick on you Jeremiah, I know other people do the same thing. -Dexter345-
Jeremiah Walgren 1187 posts 04-15-04 22:21 Reply	No problem Dexter. I think it's old too, but I figure that's the best way to kill such conversations from the start.
Melazyboy 113 posts 04-16-04 06:22 Reply	You won't kill any conversation with me without a strong factual defense. Something you lack time after time, a simple ‘I believe’ will just make you look like a goon to a non-Mormon who simply doesn’t believe what you do. Come to terms with this and simply accept that the Mormon Church has nothing except faith and ignorant followers. Moreover, because you can’t defend your blind ‘faith’ simply don’t partake in any internet forum on a topic as this - religion. An educated Christian would at least be informed on the historical events of his church and his religion and would be able to say something on the lines of, ‘well we believes this happened, [insert event] and as such this is our reason for believing it [insert defense]’ If you can assert a popular, known, earth-bound, terrestrial event that can be best explained using your approach you would successfully win the argument but this isn’t the case in religion because there is always a more in-depth, detailed, theory that runs contrary to it; or there is direct physical evidence that makes the string of events as portrayed by the person of religion, null. This is what a debate is, not ‘you are Satan’ or why would I ‘fathom the idea of a godless universe.’ Now I know Mormons brag relentlessly about employing Mormon scholars, and this has been a practice for what 100yrs? What did these believers find? 10million Mormons by your account, a society for Mormon scholars and yet you kids can’t point to a claim made by your church for the sake of debate? Had I have been born in the early 1300’s would I be catholic – probably… Not much in the way of science or math ran contrary to catholic belief and what did was kept away from the prying eyes of the public. Did the Catholic explanations make sense… Sure, they do, if all you knew was the explanation. Sure, Earth is round, Muslims are bad, God is good, Pope speaks to God, God doesn’t talk to me because he is busy, Prayers are made by church – modifying them is a sin, go through priest to get to god. Sounds like a pretty stiff case for the 1300’s in favor of our make-believe friend. Its a fact atheism is not a religion, but according to a flawed argument by the religious community: atheism is a religion putting ‘faith’ in math and science; well here are three mathematicians and scientists: Stephen Hawkins, and Bertrude Russell and Einstein all of which have published essays discussing the probability of a godless universe or publishing openly their lack of belief in a higher authority. Now do you want to compare and contrast the ‘story’ of creationism vs. the evolution, sure but I doubt you honestly think that creationism is more sound and probable.
Jeremiah Walgren 1187 posts 04-16-04 18:43 Reply	I can easily kill a conversation with you. It's quite simple, really. I just won't respond to you.
Barrett 385 posts 04-16-04 20:39 Reply	Nahom and Bountiful. Unknown until the early 1900's yet they are mentioned in the book of mormon. That's just CURAZY! right? change the topic again, i dare you.
Xathien 1255 posts 04-16-04 22:11 Reply	Okay. What's that over there?!
Jeremiah Walgren 1187 posts 04-17-04 03:14 Reply	A three headed monkey. Don't look!
Mark 276 posts 04-17-04 19:48 Reply	Melazyboy... are you certain? I was fairly sure that Einstien was religious. Or maybe I'm thinking Pascal... eh... who knows...
Barrett 385 posts 04-17-04 21:05 Reply	I don't think einstein was religious, but he is quoted as once saying something along the lines of "the more i find out about the universe the more i think there must be a God" (nothing close to that, but the same general idea).

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