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Otherwise you're saying you can't be a free thinker and believe in evolution because creationism is a wrong anwser. How can you believe in anything and be considered a free thinker by those standards? |
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Here's a few early religious wars.
__________________God commanded that Israel kill the Canaanites around 1400 B.C. for their wickedness. In the second century B.C. the Seleucid Greek king Antiochus Epiphanies IV tried to eliminate the Hebrew religion; he banned its practice, killed Jews that would not worship the pagan gods of Greece and desecrated the Temple at Jerusalem. In fact, Hanukkah is the observance of the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabean Revolt. |
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That's absurd. For one thing what's wrong with the logic that an ordered world might hint at a creator or that the existence of good and evil require an external, objective source?
For another thing, some the greatest Christian apologists and writers are ex-atheists or agnostics that came to their faith in the course of trying to disprove the existence of God. Here's one: |
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For every ex-atheist you show me, I can show you 10 ex-theists. And every single one of them we list will be completely irrelevant to the issue |
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Ok, I just watched that video. Apart from now being upset with you for wasting my 5 minutes, that guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about and is just trotting out the same old creationist 'arguments' that have been successfully and easily refuted a thousand times over("the chance of the universe creating life is 100000000000000000 to one". yaaaaawn). He doesn't have a clue. If part of his reason for becoming a born again Christian was the realization that "wait a minute... animals can't appreciate art", then you can happily have him on your team. Poor example, Indy
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And after watching the video, I wasn't surprised to find this
"As Prager University is not an accredited degree-granting university, its name has been criticized as pretentious and misleading. In fact, they are on the strict meaning the completely antagonistic idea to a University, as they are biased and "teach" things that are not the standard thought for a serious study.[6] Prager University has also been criticized for emphasizing only conservative political views in its videos though many are about seemingly "non-political" topics, including happiness and morality. Additionally, much of its material has a serious anti-science and ultra-conservative bias." And this is the guy who started it? 'It' being an online 'school' that produces 5 minute videos to 'educate' its 'students' Indy, Indy, Indy ![]() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Prager Seriously, man. check your references |
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I know who Dennis Prager is and he started the series for one expliciate reason which is on the banner... Undoing the damage of the University... five minutes at a time. It's a conservative thing.
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I don't know what your beliefs are. But i do know that religious dogma is the opposite of free thought |
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Now you're just being flippant about it.
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Ironically, in the South Park episode I'm watching, a History Channel talking head just said "There is certainly no evidence that the first Thanksgiving dinner wasn't haunted"
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You can't prove that dragons exist and I can't prove that dragons don't exist. Thus, there's clearly a 50% chance that they do exist. Universities may have corrupted the study of statistics, but this is just logic.
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Well actually you can prove that dragons and leprechauns don't exist. These kind of examples that get thrown out are just flippant. They're mythical creatures (emphasis on creatures), they don't exist, they never existed in any literal sense. If they did exist they would exist as flesh and blood and it's relatively easy to take a look around and see that, nope, they aren't there (setting aside the difficulties of keeping track of species with very few members).
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It means education is dangerous. It's the atheist liberal media's way of tricking us into not believing everything we're told just because someone said it was true. They do it through witchcraft and should be burned at five minute intervals or until brown and crisp.
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The second is more a culture war. The seleucids at the time were a dying empire under Epiphanies. They had a policy to hellenise the empire. It was more religious and cultural persecution. It was an area that had already been part of the empire for a while and an attempt to impose more centralized authority. The Hebrews main problem through the ages is that they have always been quite an independent minded nation which made them an issue for whoever ruled them as they obviously rebelled quite frequently. It wasn't so much oh your a Hebrew I don't like you, more that they were a rebellious part of empire that needed to be brought under control. As the Romans could attest to. Persecution yes. War no. ( Just so it is clear I do not support the persecution of Hebrews by the seleucids or Romans, but I am all for the Great Empire of Ireland, drinks on me ![]() |
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