> The Abided wrote:
> insert every argument against atheism Avogadro has ever posted here <

  Your argument comes from you not understanding one simple fact, a fact I will now try to explain, again:

Sexual reproduction: Reproduction with sex.
Asexual reproduction: Reproduction without sex.

Theism: Belief in a god, or many gods, as a creator and/or ruler of the world.
Atheism: No belief in a god, or gods, as a creator and/or ruler of the world.

No belief. That is the part you fail to understand, the part where we walk through life either knowing or not knowing, and being comfortable with it.
Atheists have no belief greater than "I believe it will rain tomorrow" which is not actually a belief but a statement based on a probability given by a meteorologist who has given you their probability based on scientific method.

Nice. Seems to cover multiple types and facets of love.

@Ehawk

Thankyou. Sulk over.

I hear Viagara can really mess with the healing process... did you know he is 73?

LOL
The first mention of anything IC related and you all go inactive!

/activates Dolby 5.1

> Justinian I wrote:

> Fokker,

Pragmatism is something to respect <

/me bows

> SOL wrote:

> > &#9773; Fokker wrote:
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Come to think of it; Would Christianity even exist today if Jesus had not said "I am the son of God", even though he was quite obviously right?

What on earth makes you think that he ever said such a thing? <

I was paraphrasing "I am the son of God, we are all children of God" because apparently christians only ever heard the first part.

> And please don't refer to the book that was written by a select group of people who carefully chose what was  or wasn't going to be in the book. For all we know they invented that story because it suited their agenda and there were people willing to believe it. jesus may "only" have a been a guy with a great personality who had a big impact on society. Or a good philosopher with great ideas and intellectual discoveries.  People who do amazing things and are idolized for it tend to become "Gods" in the minds of the masses. That doesn't turn them into actual gods(or the son of one), does it? <

Not telling me anything I have not already considered, but thanks for posting: It's nice to know I'm not alone.

> I'm not saying that what i said is true...I just like to point out that there are many alternitives possible to what Christianity tells you. In this point lies , in my opninion, one of the main reasons why people don't believe in God(s). Nothing is based on actual facts that can be proven. You're just supposed to believe it is true without questioning it.  On top of that, those unproven facts&theories tend to change as time passes by.  There was a time when people thought Heaven was located in the sky). Those theories of there being a god lose credibility as we discover more about everything around. That might probably be the reason why those theories keep are adjusted over time.

Believing something blindy and without  being allowed to question it seems foolish to me. <

The problem with Religion today worse than that:
People don't want to question because they don't want the answer.

The library has decided that I'm not allowed to see that

> xeno syndicated wrote:

> The problem with sovereign states owning nukes is such:

There exists a chance, no matter how remote, of nuclear weapons (or control over nuclear weapons) falling into the wrong hands, and thus there is always a chance that nuclear war or nuclear terrorism may result merely by the very existence of such weapons, regardless of who possesses them.  This constant chance of nuclear war has caused psychological stess (albeit subconcious, perhaps) on generations since the 1950s.  We don't know what effects this subconcious stress has had, nor what other problems this constant stress has caused. <

Sorry to butt-in:

This can be said about, and is true for, any weapon. Take World War One and the gun, for example.

Sovereign states having nuclear weapons should be all or nothing, simply for reasons of self defence. It is the only way to be fair.