Believers, Non-Believers & Morality

Originally posted by @romans1009
Leave that aside for a moment. Ghost needs your help. He’s tangled himself into a pretzel with all the flopping around he’s doing and he needs someone to pull his knickers up.

Don't be infantile. You got the wrong end the stick. Again. Sticking to your guns when you simply misunderstood does not make for good discussion.

Originally posted by @fmf
Don't be infantile. You got the wrong end the stick. Again. Sticking to your guns when you simply misunderstood does not make for good discussion.

Your opinion, as erroneous as it is, is noted. Let’s see if Ghost does a backflip on his next round of flipping and flopping around.

Maybe you should strap a bicycle helmet on him in case he hits his noggin.

Originally posted by @romans1009
What is the “outside agency” you’re referring to?

Bump for Ghost.

Originally posted by @romans1009
What is the “outside agency” you’re referring to?

Okay. The dumbed down version of 'outside agency' is the 'fictional God figure' you are morally bankrupt without.


*The above is spoken from the viewpoint of an atheist. - Dumbed down version - Person who doesn't believe in God.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Bump for Ghost.

Don't bump me after 4 minutes or I won't answer you at all.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Your opinion, as erroneous as it is, is noted. Let’s see if Ghost does a backflip on his next round of flipping and flopping around.

Maybe you should strap a bicycle helmet on him in case he hits his noggin.

Twice already on this thread, your intellectual behaviour appears to have been affected by your wish to seem like you had never spoken to an atheist before and that you didn't know Ghost of a Duke was one. In short: fatuous disingenuousness.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Okay. The dumbed down version of 'outside agency' is the 'fictional God figure' you are morally bankrupt without.


*The above is spoken from the viewpoint of an atheist. - Dumbed down version - Person who doesn't believe in God.

Really?

FMF thinks “outside agency” referred to ancient texts and dogma.

So “outside agency” refers to God. And how is it that God, who indwells Christians, is an “outside agency” to a Christian?

Originally posted by @romans1009
Really?

FMF thinks “outside agency” referred to ancient texts and dogma.

So “outside agency” refers to God. And how is it that God, who indwells Christians, is an “outside agency” to a Christian?

Yes, your god figure = ancient texts and dogma.

Originally posted by @fmf
Twice already on this thread, your intellectual behaviour appears to have been affected by your wish to seem like you had never spoken to an atheist before and that you didn't know Ghost of a Duke was one. In short: fatuous disingenuousness.

Your interpretation of what Ghost meant by “outside agency” was wrong. It appears you don’t know your fellow atheist as well as you think.

Originally posted by @romans1009
So “outside agency” refers to God. And how is it that God, who indwells Christians, is an “outside agency” to a Christian?

To an atheist, nothing supernatural "indwells" in a Christian.

Originally posted by @fmf
Yes, your god figure = ancient texts and dogma.

Good grief. Now you’re flopping around too? Be careful you two don’t hit each other.

Originally posted by @fmf
To an atheist, nothing supernatural "indwells" in a Christian.

You already misrepresented Ghost once. I’m interested in what he has to say after he catches his breath from flopping around so much.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Your interpretation of what Ghost meant by “outside agency” was wrong. It appears you don’t know your fellow atheist as well as you think.

My interpretation is the same. The “outside agency” is a god figure that "exists" only as mythology and dogma.

Originally posted by @romans1009
Good grief. Now you’re flopping around too? Be careful you two don’t hit each other.

You are infantilizing yourself.

Originally posted by @romans1009
You already misrepresented Ghost once.

This is not true.