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<div >Shouldn't god forgive people for killing his son, and not BECAUSE they killed his son?</DIV>
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<div >Can God create a rock he can't lift?</DIV>
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<div >If prayer works, it means we control god.</DIV>
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<div >If prayer fails once - it means god chooses what to do regardless of prayer - ie prayer does not work.</DIV>
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<div >How did polar bears get to the ark?</DIV>
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<div >The original sin was the seeking of knowledge - so why isn't all knowledge considered evil?</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid" name="wmMessageComp" webmail="1">-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: Re: [ExI] Basis of Belief<BR>From: ABlainey@aol.com<BR>Date: Mon, February 25, 2008 1:07 pm<BR>To: extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><BR><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">In a message dated 25/02/2008 18:40:08 GMT Standard Time, jrd1415@gmail.com writes:<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">Anyone who wishes to acquire an understanding of human nature,<BR>"reality", and the interwoven nature of the two, should save this post<BR>in hardcopy and very large print, and read it over and over again.<BR><BR>Two organisms bearing the morphology generated by the H. sapiens<BR>genome may be regarded as the same species. But "cultural"<BR>differences in the unseen "meme set" make them as different as apples<BR>and oranges.<BR>Your best bet when encountering a person of "faith" is to remind<BR>yourself repeatedly that they might as well be aliens from another<BR>galaxy -- they are that different, and walk away (from any attempt to<BR>persuade).<BR><BR>Best, Jeff Davis<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You could put together a list of undeniable logic traps, print off as a leaflet and hand to said H.Sapien-Idiotis. <BR><BR>Jesus died for all our sins, so all our sins are pre-forgiven. Sin away!<BR>If God is all seeing and all powerful, why does he need you to fight for him?<BR>God created the devil, the devil is evil. ergo God..... etc.<BR><BR>Does anyone have a list already? or links to one.<BR><BR>At the very least it would provide some amusement. Perhaps we could stand on busy street corners asking people if they are interested in a copy of Bullshitnetics?<BR><BR>it's all religiculous !<BR>Alex<BR></FONT>
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