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Originally posted by Starrman
Again, you're confusing a passion for knowledge with a process of debate. Any debate won on emotion is nothing more than good acting making an impression on the audience. It is not a solid, clear and well tested position.

Originally posted by vistesd
Raymond Smullyan hypothesized (in his The Tao Is Silent) that perhaps it is analogous to a hypnotic suggestion, perhaps nurtured and deepened over time by cultural conditioning. And maybe for those of us who cross religious boundaries fairly readily, even as non-theists, but nevertheless find some profound aesthetic value in various religious express ...[text shortened]... if one could use a self-hypnotic suggestion to unravel all prior suggestions or conditioning...

Originally posted by Jay Joos
Not so...

Originally posted by Starrman
Perhaps you have a different definition of debate here, but winning a debate through anything other than presentation of facts, discourse over the strength and weaknesses of premises built on those facts, and conclusion in light of the above, is poor debate.

If you want emotion, go and cry at someone until they let you win the argument.

i say that intelligence causes atheism out of personal experience. almost all intelligent kids in my school who are the goody-goods who make 100s and get mad when they get a 99, are atheists. they are heavy thinkers who think about these things and see no proof of God's existence. i used to be young and naive and i believed in Christianity with no question but now i am not sure.

Originally posted by Jay Joos
I disagree with your sweeping statement regarding which camp has the lower level.... we all have opinions...no one is lower than the other...some back it up and others use their feelings.... how wonderful debate is do you agree?

Originally posted by Jay Joos
My own personal opinion to Atheism is that its wrong...

Originally posted by Starrman
A lack of intelligence is far more likely to lead to the acceptance of magic and angels, than it is to a common sense, natural view of the world without god.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Then, if your poison is a "just in case" mentality, you should worship as many Gods as possible. Why stop at the Christian God? Why not also Allah, the Shinto Gods the Maori Gods, the Aboriginal Dreamtime Gods.

Originally posted by scottishinnz
Many theists here lack the ability to use logic in an incisive way.

Not something that the atheist community in this forum seem to have too much trouble with.

Originally posted by josephw
Because none of those gods ever did anything for anybody! 😉

Originally posted by josephw
What we lack in logic, we make up for in spiritual understanding.
Like knowing what response we'll get for saying something like that. 😀

Originally posted by josephw
Non-sense. Some of the most intelligent people believe the most absurd things. Take for example atheists.

Originally posted by josephw
Non-sense. Some of the most intelligent people believe the most absurd things. Take for example atheists.

Originally posted by Jay Joos
Or perhaps that should be lack of ....