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The Role of the Unrepentant Skeptic

The Role of the Unrepentant Skeptic

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People with faith, we aren't trying to break that. I know faith is a source of power. But there are billions of these sources, and your particular version really is just for you, so stop pushing it at me.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
I don't recall asking you this before. I suspect you just don't want to answer the question for obvious reasons.
I'd expect a demigod to show some power, and not merely die. Period.

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I have a friend who's reason for living is skydiving. I would say the same to him 'I'm happy for you.' (Happy that he had found something that gave his life purpose). But you 'wouldn't' catch me jumping out of a plane and plummeting to the earth.

I have said a number of times in this forum that I have no resentment to people who have a faith (and ...[text shortened]... nd something that gives your life purpose. I don't agree with it, but certainly don't resent it.
fair enough

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Originally posted by apathist
I'd expect a demigod to show some power, and not merely die. Period.
The whole coming back from the dead is common place in your world?

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Originally posted by KellyJay
The whole coming back from the dead is common place in your world?
Sneak into the tomb, steal the body. I'm kinda proud of your founders.

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A creator god of supreme importance, but hidden from us. Doesn't that seem odd? It is like we make it up for other reasons.

Open your eyes, look around, there are the mountains and the clouds. Drop the prehistoric beliefs.

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Originally posted by KellyJay
The whole coming back from the dead is common place in your world?
In my teenage years, perhaps.

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Originally posted by apathist
A creator god of supreme importance, but hidden from us. Doesn't that seem odd? It is like we make it up for other reasons.

Open your eyes, look around, there are the mountains and the clouds. Drop the prehistoric beliefs.
No it seems for our protection He shields us from Himself since we are currently sinners.

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Originally posted by apathist
Sneak into the tomb, steal the body. I'm kinda proud of your founders.
So the same guys who stole the body also got the body to pretend to be alive and appear to 500 eyewitnesses and bamboozle them all, sounds very likely.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
So the same guys who stole the body also got the body to pretend to be alive and appear to 500 eyewitnesses and bamboozle them all, sounds very likely.
I think a real god really rising from the dead would be obvious. You have been fooled by tricks. Stories of tricks, not even the tricks themselves!

I do wonder where you get 500 from. Zero saw it happen, a few followers advocated, and the rest of the entire world just carried on. It is like your god is incredibly weak.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
So the same guys who stole the body also got the body to pretend to be alive and appear to 500 eyewitnesses and bamboozle them all, sounds very likely.
Truth be told, this was the claim of only one individual. Why did you choose to frame it as you did?

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Originally posted by apathist
I think a real god really rising from the dead would be obvious. You have been fooled by tricks. Stories of tricks, not even the tricks themselves!

I do wonder where you get 500 from. Zero saw it happen, a few followers advocated, and the rest of the entire world just carried on. It is like your god is incredibly weak.
I think a real god really rising from the dead would be obvious.

Agreed. Obvious enough to currently convince more than a billion people.

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Originally posted by dj2becker
[b]I think a real god really rising from the dead would be obvious.

Agreed. Obvious enough to currently convince more than a billion people.[/b]
Argumentum Ad Populum.

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Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Argumentum Ad Populum.
Any excuse to ignore the obvious. 😉

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Originally posted by dj2becker
Any excuse to ignore the obvious. 😉
Psst, if you're playing the numbers game, more people in the world believe in reincarnation.

Ouch. How's your foot?