1. Standard memberwolfgang59
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    19 Feb '15 18:32
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Though a pluralized subject negates the original question, your belief will be included as a footnote. Thanks.
    It is not a belief. I know.
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    19 Feb '15 19:07
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    OP: "Does God exist?
    Seriously, you need to learn how to communicate.
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    21 Feb '15 00:041 edit
    Originally posted by twhitehead
    Seriously, you need to learn how to communicate.
    Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:

    "Do you believe God exists"

    No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?
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    21 Feb '15 00:51
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:

    "Do you believe God exists"

    No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?
    Your three options are not mutually exclusive.

    You can't be 1 and 2.

    But you can be 1 and 3, or 2 and 3.

    Position 3 is in fact redundant as 1 and 2 are both exclusive and exhaustive,
    because while they are not the only answers people could give, you cannot
    both believe and not believe god exists [using any normal definitions of believe]
    which means that you can only be option 1 or 2 and nothing in-between.

    You are still being Christian centric by asking about a capitalised monotheistic god
    in the singular, and not asking whether people believe in gods, or god or gods, or
    similar.
    Leading to a post that looks like it splits theist vs atheist but actually splits
    Christian vs everyone else, or if I am being generous, monotheist vs everyone else.

    And your OP still suffers from being pointless.

    Firstly, because who cares how many theists vs atheists [or whatever you think you
    are measuring] are on this site.

    Secondly, because a self selecting poll such as this is unlikely to be representative and
    cannot be trusted to be so.
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    21 Feb '15 01:24
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:

    "Do you believe God exists"

    No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?
    If a Muslim answered "Yes, I call Him Allah" would you record it as a "Yes"?

    If a JW answered "Yes, but Jesus is not God" would you record it as a "Yes"?

    If a Jew, a B'hai, a Zoroastrian, a Hindu, a Mahayana Buddhist, a Wiccan? A Deist?

    Take a look at

    http://www.religionfacts.com/big_religion_chart.htm

    and think about this question.
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    21 Feb '15 01:37
    Originally posted by JS357

    http://www.religionfacts.com/big_religion_chart.htm

    and think about this question.
    His head will explode.
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    21 Feb '15 06:33
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Let's reduce the original post question to its irreducible:

    "Do you believe God exists"

    No or Yes.............. or you're still examining the possibility?
    I fully understood the question. You didn't however understand the answer. But instead of trying to understand the answer, you just keep on copy/pasting the OP, my answer, and just about anything you can get your hands on. Excessive copy/pasting does not help to clarify, it does the exact opposite. In a real life conversation, do you spend half your time repeating what you said earlier and what your interlocutor said in response?
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