Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,07:38)I would like to touch base with the thread topic again, For atheism/ for god.  What is in question here is what qualities some Abrahamists attribute to their god, and whether they match  your god concept.Let’s put words in your mouth which you have never said yourself.  Let’s pretend you actually said that in your o…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 08 2010,16:18)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 08 2010,13:39)What evidence do you have that I exist?There is something calling itself bodhitharta that is forming words in a language common to mine.  That is what I know to exist.  There is also the trivial evidence of things such as the fact that I am familiar with it being only humans w…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,15:19)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,15:16)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,11:27)Assertion from ignorance,making unsupported personal assumptions,patrician attitude,the argument from personal anecdote,TRAINING CHRISTIANS?  I thought they trained the lions that ate them!,and gross sexism.In that order.What a great…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,15:17)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,15:13)I had to check first but you are correctNZ has the highest suicide rate in the worldso STU, you should help the youth and drop yoursecular garbage it isn't workingIt really is a shame you are too lazy to do your own thinking and your own research BD.Can you demonstrate a…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,15:18)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,14:06)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,10:44)OK, I acknowledge that I am a “polyatheist” but only if you also acknowledge that you are too.  You are a polyatheist and a monotheist.  Those two terms are not mutually exclusive, and actually that is the point.  I deny the existence of the sa…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,11:27)Assertion from ignorance,making unsupported personal assumptions,patrician attitude,the argument from personal anecdote,TRAINING CHRISTIANS?  I thought they trained the lions that ate them!,and gross sexism.In that order.What a great advertisement for BD's brand of religion.StuartYour brand of rejecting religion is…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,15:13)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,14:03)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,11:20)BDQuote You keep talking without knowledge or don't you know that the Jews have pretty much have always been outnumbered politically.Non-sequitur.  The point about henotheism has NOTHING TO DO with the percentage of Jews in the world.  This is a…[Read more]

Quote (karmarie @ Jan. 09 2010,14:16)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,14:03)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,11:20)BDQuote You keep talking without knowledge or don't you know that the Jews have pretty much have always been outnumbered politically.Non-sequitur.  The point about henotheism has NOTHING TO DO with the percentage of Jews in the world.…[Read more]

Quote (karmarie @ Jan. 09 2010,14:16)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,14:03)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,11:20)BDQuote You keep talking without knowledge or don't you know that the Jews have pretty much have always been outnumbered politically.Non-sequitur.  The point about henotheism has NOTHING TO DO with the percentage of Jews in the world.…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,10:44)OK, I acknowledge that I am a “polyatheist” but only if you also acknowledge that you are too.  You are a polyatheist and a monotheist.  Those two terms are not mutually exclusive, and actually that is the point.  I deny the existence of the same number of gods that you deny, plus one.  Just saying all those god…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,11:20)BDQuote You keep talking without knowledge or don't you know that the Jews have pretty much have always been outnumbered politically.Non-sequitur.  The point about henotheism has NOTHING TO DO with the percentage of Jews in the world.  This is about what happened INSIDE the earliest times of Judaism in M…[Read more]

New Zealand's 45,000-strong Muslim community are moderate and law-abiding and have never carried out any terrorist acts.

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,10:29)S BDThe first Jews were mostly polytheists.  Monotheism spread by assimilation of the polytheists through henotheism.  Those other god names you list there were, unless I have the wrong names, the gods that were tolerated temporarily by those early monotheists as part of that assimilation process.  They were le…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,10:20)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,08:02)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,07:15)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,05:56)Quote (kejonn @ Jan. 08 2010,22:13)So, it comes back around then eh? If man runs the show according to your faith, why should I believe in your god while not believing in another?There is no “other” God,…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,10:04)Quote Stu believes that there are gods not to believe inAnd here are some of their names:ApolloDianaZeusOdinJupiterYahwehJehovahAre you claiming that the female god Diana is actually the same as the very male god allah?StuartGod is not a male or a female, What would God need to be a gender for?God does not…[Read more]

Quote (karmarie @ Jan. 09 2010,08:24)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,08:02)Quote (Stu @ Jan. 09 2010,07:15)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 09 2010,05:56)Quote (kejonn @ Jan. 08 2010,22:13)So, it comes back around then eh? If man runs the show according to your faith, why should I believe in your god while not believing in another?There is no “other”…[Read more]

Quote (kejonn @ Jan. 08 2010,22:23)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 07 2010,21:57)God belief only benefits the believer.That's debatable. Some of the most miserable people I know believe in some god. They live in fear and guilt of never being able to please their god.Quote A non-believing society receives no benefit at all.Just as non-stamp collecting is…[Read more]

Quote (Ed J @ Jan. 08 2010,21:17)Quote (bodhitharta @ Jan. 08 2010,09:22)Quote (Ed J @ Jan. 07 2010,19:58)Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword (Rev.19:15)shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon(Rev.12:3) that is in the sea. (Rev.17:15 /…[Read more]

Quote (kejonn @ Jan. 09 2010,02:00)Quote (bodhitharta @ Dec. 09 2009,23:26)I Love you and May God bless you always and forever. This is my last Post(God willing)Either God was not willing, or you ignored him  I don't ignore God and hence it is not my will but the will of God hence the term “God willing”I realized that the sceptical position is…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Jan. 08 2010,16:10)Quote There are no “gods”I know!  That is what I was saying!Actually I was very careful in that last post to write the singular “god”.  There IS no GOD.Did you spot that?StuartThe fact is STU if you say there is no God then why do you ask about other “gods” are you confused?If you insist on speaking against “gods” i…[Read more]