I am not trying to avoid the questions you asked and will reply to them later.
Okay, which questions were those again that you'll be getting around to answering later?
This probably means very little to you based on your attitude throughout this post and many of your other posts, but I just want you to know that I will be praying for you.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. The irony of that is your threats on "god's" behalf on the one hand, ("Those who don't believe there is a God will find out that they are wrong, but I really hope that you will realize that before God destroys sin and, with it, those who would not listen to His pleadings to repent." - jsuderc & supposedly, 'god'), while alternatively "praying" for the ones you've threatened on the other. That's sublime.
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1. There were some questions in earlier posts that you asked. I will do my best to answer them later on when I have more time.
Excellent, and which questions were those, specifically?
2. Perhaps bitterness was not the right word. I do realize that there could be some other basis, but would you be willing to share where you are coming from. All I was saying is that there seems to be something at the root of these feelings against the thought of a God. I am not seeking to offend in any way.
To begin with, your "god" doesn't protect me from the follies of 'his' followers. Those followers are largely 'cultural thieves' in that they swiped much of their altered dogma from previous religions in a cherry-picked manner and the most pertinent basis is that I don't have any particularly strong "feelings" toward something which is merely claimed to exist, (similarly, I harbor no ill will toward "Santa" or, the "easter bunny").
3. I am not trying to threaten you and I am sorry if I came across that way. However, I do not know how else to say what I said.
If you're looking for suggestions on how to rephrase the inherent threat so that the threat isn't a threat afterall, I may be able to assist, (although I haven't given such dissembling much consideration as yet).
My conviction is that you are making a critical mistake and you feel that you are right. One of us is wrong because we can't both be right. I am not trying to force you to change the way you believe--all I am doing is trying to share my understanding of things in this discussion.
The difference is that I'm not the one making an unsupported claim, ("belief in god" -- note that disbelieving someone else's initial claim and requesting substantiation for such a claim is not, in and of itself, a claim). Certainly I contend that there is an overwhelming possibility that those who make such unfounded claims on the basis of "belief/faith" are drawing invalid conclusions upon that basis. However, that remains a central point of my assertion, (with substantiation), that some people choose to make irrational choices.
Please humor me for a minute--Do you know everything there is to know in the entire universe? If we even knew 1% of what there is to know about everything in the universe, there is still 99% that we don't know about.
That's a sophist stance since the probability for anything one can imagine, (or, can't imagine yet), to exist is indeterminate. It does not logically follow that the odds favor such theoretical existigencies. If one forms a theoretical premise, (in this instance, that "god" may or does exist), one cannot rationally use an indeterminate, ('we don't know everything'), as the supporting basis for such a theory. What theories are intended to do is take observed phenomenon, (or that which is directly derived from such), and posit the 'how'. Your 'theory' doesn't do that.
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