Atheists... Your life is pointless

There are those who would want that it be unlawful for people to have Christian beliefs.

I agree with you. If I implied that there is a difference, I apologize for the confusion. However, I think it is worse if the do believe in God and still have no concience.

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There's just the whole controversy of whether people should be allowed to believe in Nazism.

Although I despise the entire concept of Nazism, I don't think that there is a question as to whether people should be "allowed" to believe in it. No matter how heinous, people have the right to believe in anything that they want. The issue is whether it is lawful to act upon those beliefs.

Intrepid wrote:

I agree with you. If I implied that there is a difference, I apologize for the confusion. However, I think it is worse if the do believe in God and still have no concience.

No apology necessary, but could you explain why you think it's worse? If someone cannot sense intuitively that it is wrong to kill, betray, cheat on his spouse, and covet other people's stuff -- why do you expect that the story about the burning bush and the ten commandments help him develop such a sense? I suppose you expect that since you think it's worse if someone believes in god and still has no conscience. But why?

Intrepid wrote:

There are those who would want that it be unlawful for people to have Christian beliefs.

I think that except for the lunatic fringe, there are few people who would deny another the right to worship as they please. I think that the problem is that there is some backlash in the US against the perception that Christians are attempting to make law, that would affect Christians and non-Christians alike, that is consonant with Christian beliefs.

I've not been around much lately, but I still want to respond to this:

John Creasy wrote:

Einherjar wrote:

John Creasy wrote:

Even if there is brain activity, but the person is clinically dead, there is NO way they could have seen something that happened around them. You cannot explain this away.

If clinically dead is defined as having no heartbeat it doesn't take any explaining, brainfunctioning could go on for a while still on already present oxygen. No reason for brainfunctioning to immediately cease.

I was talking about a person being clinically dead, and then being revived and describing something that happened in the room that they couldn't have possibly seen physically. It's called an out-of-body experience. This cannot be explained by science.

There is nothing to explain, one doesn't need a heartbeat (clinical life) in order to see and remember, one just needs functioning eyes, functioning optical nerves, and a partially functioning brain. A person could have all of those, and still be unconscious and clinically dead.

You failed to catch the gist of my post, which was that we know that consciousness at least relies heavily on the brain. Isn't it then something of a wild proposition that it can function just the same without it?

An atheist's life has as much point as anybody else. Only difference, in general, it interferes with others' lives, on average, less than other lives do.

God, this is an offensive thread.

God, this is an offensive thread.

More so than any Muslim fundamentalists, the ID people are the real enemies of this country.

Piffka wrote:

God, this is an offensive thread.

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Piffka wrote:

More so than any Muslim fundamentalists, the ID people are the real enemies of this country.

Mesquite,

That's a pretty harsh statement, isn't it? Again, judging all Christians by some?