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Free thought blogger and atheist activist JT Eberhard has given a talk several times this year about why the arguments for the existence of God fail. During the talk, Eberhard discusses his year-long experiment of attending church and asking Christians why they believe in God. The lecture is designed to give atheists an outline of how to dialogue with believers and deconvert them. I have to admit, it was very interesting to watch; Eberhard is a talented speaker, and it's good that he's trying to

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Today I was reading an article about a megachurch which dismissed its pastor because of adultery. I believe the church size was about 5,000 members.

Is one of the reasons that megachuches fail because they don't have good administrative oversight? Except for the paid staff, all they have is a board of volunteers (elders, trustees, deacons) of uncertain applicable experience who can probably spare maybe 8 hours a month to overseeing the church. Is it then no wonder that the pastor ...

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Right, then.

Originally posted by Teal

That culture can influence moral behavior/ideology is not in dispute. That culture defines morality is. This shows influence, granted, but does not establish that morality is necessarily defined by culture. Anyone can claim the sun is blue. A culture could inexplicably conclude that the sun must be blue despite not appearing blue. The sun is not influenced by what we think about it, even if all our kids start drawing

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Originally posted by Griggsy

Those other sources also are guilty of false interpretations of the prophecies, so tht is jst an ignoration elenchi- irrelevant.
Folks, Christians have murdered more Christians in the name of God that the Romans ever could with their sporadice,limited murders in the name of the state
Why have all those murders happened? Because people took as true the reification of the lack of answer that the term God provides, Christians have murdered and hated other Christ-addicts Tha

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Okay, there are a couple problems here. I’ve already refuted a couple of these points and concede on a lot of the rest - but it doesn’t matter because the things I agree with don’t prove your argument. So, a quick recap and then I’ll tackle it point by point:

My thesis is that the idea that numerous, diverse cultures all coming to the exact same conclusion is irrational. If culture is a major defining factor of morality then we should see at least a few outliers coming to the conclusion ...