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It is not difficult for me to see how one might go down this rabbit hole. I just know that I hope that I never do. Maybe I will when I am 90 years old, have 20 mental illnesses and aches all over my body... That would be quite sad.
The god you portray appears extremely evil, and your defense of it is evil. Serving anyone, let alone a twisted creature like this, is something a decent human being will never do willingly. But, as someone said, "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool." Fools are characterized not by their low intellectual capacity, but by their extremely low resistance to, for the lack of better term, on a silver platter. A fool can be convinced that drinking ethanol is good for him by mere charisma, bypassing logic.
And fools can absolutely believe that they are happy living in their delusion. They may even be genuinely happy... But this is not the kind of happiness someone on the outside would ever want. Someone who leaves Plato's cave even for a moment will never be satisfied should he go back to it: no matter how comfy, how warm, how familiar it is, he now knows how pathetic his existence is relative to what is available out there. And would he want to forget the outside world? Only if he is a doubly fool.
Because when you experience the highs provided by living in tune with reality, the highs given by living in delusion look very pale in comparison. Solving an extremely complicated intellectual problem gives you the level of satisfaction that superficial religious nonsense never will. It is like eating a well-cooked steak versus eating stale cabbage: stale cabbage will satisfy your stomach, but that is about it.
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Now this is an argument with substance. I just want to expand on the central point with a hypothetical example (addressing @just_sayin).
Imagine an alternative Universe (also allegedly created by god) which is very similar to ours, but with a difference: humans have much more destructive potential. Specifically, every human can press his or her belly button, causing an explosion of the 1 mile radius obliterating everything and killing all life forms within the 1 mile sphere. Humans can also press each other's belly buttons to the same effect.
I will assume here that you see our Universe as more benevolent than that one (if not, I am happy to consider the alternative viewpoint). If you were given a choice which of the two Universes to inhabit, you would prefer ours - and you believe that in our Universe god granted us all free will.
Yet if you were to suggest to one of the residents of that "explosive Universe" that the god could have had a better design by not giving them the ability to cause explosions by pressing belly buttons, the residents could use exactly the same argument as yours: "But that would take away our free will! There is no freedom without me being able to kill all life forms within the radius of 1 mile any time I want to!"
Please explain, if you disagree with the explosive Universe residents' argument, how it is principally different from yours. Why would making humans less potentially destructive take away from their free will in an undesirable way?
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These evils is what we have been talking about in this thread all this time... You can read about them in the previous comments. You can feed them to ChatGPT and ask it to list them for you in case you are not seeing them.
The rest of what you said is not even worth responding to. You have, once again, made no argument whatsoever. You are free to love whoever you want, but do not be surprised when someone from the outside sees your love as an aberration. There are people who are into BDSM and other deviations, and that is perfectly fine: everyone should do themselves. But there is a difference between pain inflicted painfully and upon mutual consent, and servitude to a monster of mythical proportions.
And expecting others to love the same thing as you do is just weird. If I love my girlfriend, should I expect everyone else to love her too - and get aggressive when they do not? "Hey, Rickey does not love my girlfriend. What a sinful creature! He should burn in hell for eternity!"
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Are you serious? I'm sorry your life seemed so empty, really. But that gives you no cause to insult those who do not conform to your religion. People navigate their lives as they see fit, it's not up to you to judge. Do you get that?
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1. Mass genocide. Don't care about any eschatological plan.
2. Not so much scripture or the creator as is its followers. It doesn't exist but the followers are hateful, petty, petulant, and irrationally insulative when people logically reject their cult.
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Your faith and your lord bother me not. Your irrational, obnoxious behavior when challenged on a debate on the other hand...
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2) I do not "hate" your "creator".
3) This is complete nonsense.
4) This is complete nonsense.
5) Chemistry.
"You'll see" is a moronic argument.
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2. Denying that something exists does not imply "hating" it. Unicorns do not exist; I do not hate unicorns.
3. Okay...
4. Okay...
5. Do you want me to write you a paper?
6. This is a debate website, not a church.
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2) I do not "hate" anything. You do.
6) There is no such thing as "a church for atheists".
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Have you ever produced a single original statement? You are just quoting one fantasy book over and over again. I have not seen anything from you that would constitute a, well, thought.
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Further, in 2014 a Federal court ruled:
“[t]he court finds that Secular Humanism is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes.”
As a system of beliefs, Secular Humanism qualifies. Its not exactly the same thing as athiesm, but its close. Atheism's key tenet is that no God exists. As such it would fall into the category of religions.
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I was talking about neither "Secular Humanism" nor the belief that "god" does not exist. I was talking about the mere lack of belief in "god". If that is religion, then lack of belief in unicorns should also be called religion - where is the ruling on that?
Also strange to use Supreme Court's ruling as authoritative whenever convenient, and condemn it otherwise. Definitions of words are determined by natural evolution of language, not by a central committee.
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KAUFMAN v. McCAUGHTRY (2005)
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@Factfinder
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So, if I contact that person on those sites they will confirm it is indeed you?
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I am the person on those sites...comment to this and I'll respond:https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2019/08/28/the-atheist-satans-faithful-servant/
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I sent an email.
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The guy on that site sounds very passionate about religion and also a somewhat decent guy. It seems very inconsistant with what you do here.
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@ZeusAres42 You sent an Email where and to whom? Just make a comment on the article I sent you..I'll respond. Not an Email...that goes through Wordpress...I don't access that.
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I made a comment on one of the articles.
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Catholic Church = one of the biggest pedophilia institutions in history!
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But then I meet yet another nutcase on this website, or on Youtube, or screaming at people near the Lincoln Memorial (that guy has been at it for years now) - and wonder... Maybe some people are actually fully 100% serious about it. That those people also engage in very atypical for humans behaviors such as yelling at crowds, threatening everyone, walking around in ragged clothes and mumbling something - suggests that I have been underestimating all this time the depth human madness can potentially reach.
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I just posted on one of the articles and I yet have no response. Until that person confirms it's you, you are a fraud.
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I answered: "Zeus was a god."
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Thanks for confirming.
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I'm sorry, what Atheist has come to you and/or your site and shoved nothing but hate for you and your religion down your throat like almost every hour for the last few weeks?
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