I’m so sorry that you regret your abortion and that it haunts you.  I’m sure I speak for everyone here when I say I wish we could erase your pain

In fact, the vast majority of people empowered to set public policy claim to be Christians.

Now imagine if Muslims had the numbers and the authority to advocate having their religious beliefs imposed on the American public at large. Imagine it.

I know that atheists often hold a certain view of  Christian intellect, imagining that we  couldn’t possibly come to our conclusions honestly, intellectually or reasonably.  It had to have been inherited or born of some tragedy that one of less psychic fortitude otherwise couldn’t handle.  It is thought that God is a crutch invented by people who are afraid to think, afraid to feel, afraid to die and disappear forever.

I am not afraid to think or to feel, and there is something wonderfully comforting about the thought of dying and disappearing forever.

Yet  I’m a Christian.

Re: God: Benevolence is love.  Supernatural and “God” are not the issues, imho.  The issues are omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and benevolence.  And each individual has to consider and argue with himself those things.  Certainly, the conclusion cannot be won in an argument with someone else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l0xYc8zXvw

Jahrta:  “It is laughable beyond belief that you accuse me of avoiding topics while doing backflips and loop-de-loops to avoid my earlier points.”

ROFLMAO!  You’re killin’ me.

I see I need to subscribe to the blog.

Jahrta, perhaps you have your own blog or another venue where you can school me on Law -vs- Theory and your wonderful new theodicy?  If not, I’ll see you and your brown eye around the intertubes.

Regards,
not JAD (lol!)

No.

“At any rate, are you really and truly this desperate for a mental reaming? Do you actually want to go toe-to-toe with me, Mr. Random?”

Gotta love a pseudo intellect poseur and internet tough guy.  Deadly combo.  The ladies must love you.  But, yeah, ream my mentals away, douche bag.

This wasn’t it, was it?

” I already have a huge advantage over you in any debate, because I don’t believe in living dead jewish carpenters that are their own fathers who killed themselves to die for sins I wasn’t around to commit, so that he could save us all from his father’s/his own wrath by burning forever in a lake of fire (but he loves us).”

Thought we were talkin’ law versus theory and your complete mangling of the two, smart guy.  You evangelicals can’t help yourself can you?

” Is that basically what you believe?”

No.

” Shall we have a little discussion on these types of things before we tackle concepts such as gravity?”

I’d change topics if I were you, too.

” By the way, Newton was a product of his time and environment, and would have probably been a Buddhist if he grew up in Japan…”

Do you read this tripe before you post it?  Newton wrote more on theology than he did science, surely you can point to his writings instead of your  “would have probably been a” theological geography hypothesis.

“does that help or weaken the case for christianity?”

Huh; non-sequitor.  Seriously man, on a scale from one to ten, how drunk are you right now?

” I didn’t say a theist was incapable of understing thermodynamics and other scientific principles, but I am never disappointed by the idiots who parrot the moronic shit they’re told by people is positions of authority in their places of worship when those people attempt to wax poetic on scientific principles. MOST of the time, they’re speaking directly out of their brown eye.”

Pot, meet Kettle.

Ready when you are, smart guy.  Laws of motion/gravity versus theories of gravity (already schooled you on that, so you can pick it up there if you’d like) and how they are analagous to evolutioanry theory… and cliffs or something.  Oh,… and your new No True Scotsman theological geography hypothesis.  Dazzle me.