Alex Jones, talk radio host

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Rather apt you link yourself to the word Veritas. (Goddess of truth, known for being particularly elusive).

Is that the reason you try and hide behind multiple accounts?

Veritas mean truth in latin. I am truthful about having used 2 accounts, are you? I also admit the truth that I am a flawed sinful being that needs God, do you?

Originally posted by dj2becker to Ghost of a Duke
I also admit the truth that I am a flawed sinful being that needs God, do you?

Is this what you would call an honest question from you ~ addressed, as it is, to someone who explained his atheism to you numerous times when you were posting as Fetchmyjunk?

Originally posted by dj2becker
Veritas mean truth in latin. I am truthful about having used 2 accounts, are you? I also admit the truth that I am a flawed sinful being that needs God, do you?

I am truthful about only ever having the need for 'one' account. I am also truthful in finding the God you peddle unconvincing.

Are you truthful in your claim that you suddenly remembered your password after a decade?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I am truthful about only ever having the need for 'one' account. I am also truthful in finding the God you peddle unconvincing.

Are you truthful in your claim that you suddenly remembered your password after a decade?

I never claimed to remember it after a decade. I forgot the password for the old account as well as the password for the old email address linked to the old account. So even if I tried to reset the password for the old account the new password would be send to the old email address that I was no longer using. It seemed the easiest way out to create a new account using my new email address.

What exactly do you find unconvincing about God and why?

Originally posted by dj2becker
I never claimed to remember it after a decade. I forgot the password for the old account as well as the password for the old email address linked to the old account. So even if I tried to reset the password for the old account the new password would be send to the old email address that I was no longer using. It seemed the easiest way out to create a new account using my new email address.

What exactly do you find unconvincing about God and why?

The God 'you' peddle is contradictory, erratic, unsubstantiated and at times downright malevolent.

Are you sorry you asked?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
The God 'you' peddle is contradictory, erratic, unsubstantiated and at times downright malevolent.

Are you sorry the asked?

And what in particular has made you decide this?

Originally posted by dj2becker
And what in particular has made you decide this?

The things you write.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
The things you write.

To clarify, my question is what in particular made you decide to be an atheist.

Originally posted by dj2becker
To clarify, my question is what in particular made you decide to be an atheist.

You mean, apart from there being no God?

I 'didn't' decide to become an atheist. I just didn't decide to become a theist. (A person's natural rational state is atheistic).

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
You mean, apart from there being no God?

I 'didn't' decide to become an atheist. I just didn't decide to become a theist. (A person's natural rational state is atheistic).

1. How do you know there is no God?

2. How do you know that a person's natural rational state is atheistic?

Originally posted by dj2becker
1. How do you know there is no God?

2. How do you know that a person's natural rational state is atheistic?

1. God is a fabrication of the human mind.

2. A mind in its natural state is therefore atheistic, 'before' any fabrication of the divine can be formulated.

Originally posted by dj2becker

That may be the smartest post you've ever made on this website.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
1. God is a fabrication of the human mind.

2. A mind in its natural state is therefore atheistic, 'before' any fabrication of the divine can be formulated.

Sorry but how do you know that God is a fabrication of the human mind? Or is it just something you choose to believe?

Originally posted by dj2becker
Sorry but how do you know that God is a fabrication of the human mind? Or is it just something you choose to believe?

God does not exist. It is you who choose to deviate from this natural position of rational thinking.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
1. God is a fabrication of the human mind.

2. A mind in its natural state is therefore atheistic, 'before' any fabrication of the divine can be formulated.

1. God is a fabrication of the human mind.
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The human mind can certainly fabricate things about someone who really lived.
That does not mean that person never existed.

Hollywood fabricates things about Wyatt Earp, Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, etc.
The fabrications are additional embellishments that do not render the historical people as never having existed.

So, that everything imagined about God not being necessarily true does not constitute God as totally a fabrication of the human mind.

But I would ask about this. The Apostles seem to have been able to detect and warn against fabrication of human imagination. If they were so under its influence, how were they able to detect myths from what they knew, and warn against myths?

ie. Peter

" For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we became eyewitnesses of that One's majesty. " ( 1 Peter 1:17)

ie. Paul warning against following myths -

"Nor to give heed to myths ... which produce questionings " ( 1 Tim. 1:4)

"Not paying attention to Jewish myths ..." (Titus 1:14)

"But the profane and old-womanish myths refuse ... " (1 Tim. 4:7)

These writers had the sobriety of mind to discern between the Gospel they taught and myths. Why should I believe you that they did not know facts from fabrications?