Religion: What it means to you

Originally Posted by LordsSword

So if people dont measure up to your standards they don't deserve respect?
My bible says everyone deserves respect, so I do my best to honor that command in an effort to be what God intended for me to be. If you are serious with your questions, please take a moment and lay down your own standards and be considerate of the person you are asking.

No, if they cant explain their own religion or beliefs when they spit garbage out of their mouths, they dont deserve respect. I have met people that claim they are devout Christians, but when we debate, they cant make valid arguments, then they have the gall to get angry. They pout and call you a heathen(most dont know what a heathen is so they say something else that is even less attractive). That deserves no respect.

So, if they cant measure up to any good standard they deserve no respect.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Something that I heard from a friend that I never confirmed- supposedly thier is a site called God-tube, a spoof of youtube, and porntube, which proves that god exists by use of a bannana...

How ya doing, buddy?

This is not all that relevent to the topic, but,

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Well, other than me not believing anything has free will...

I dont understand. In almost any situation you have the free will to do whatever, I think that you are confusing the consequence to what you choose to do with your free will, with free will itself.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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What do you mean by 'free will'?

The ability to choose what you want to do, when you want to do it.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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And how do you know that we are not merely labouring under the delusion that we have free will, when in fact all of our decisions are made by forces outside of our control?

If that is how you feel you should not be arguing on the side of athiests should you?

If you are referring to the goverment, you are wrong their too, the goverment does not control you, at least until you do something that would put you in trouble. It is as simple as this and can branch off to more complicated situations: you have an opportunity to steal a jolly rancher from one of you friends, do you do it? or do you leave it alone?

I was speaking idiomatically.

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The controls I referred to were biological and psychological in nature.

You mean like teenage hormones?

How ya doing, buddy?

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I mean things like the chemicals reactions that occur in our brains.

I read a little bit of that site, which was quite interesting, I just dont see how it makes sense that every action that I make was predetermined by the chemicals and nuerotransmitters in my brain.

And I think you guys should give LordsSword a break, no one I have ever met could defend themselves against the onslaught of, like, ten intelligent, also "zealous" athiests.

Even if what he says starts to sound a really rediculous, and even though I dont agree with a thing he says, he's really smart.

FELIPE NO

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If what he says starts to sound really ridiculous, then he's NOT especially intelligent, now is he? Because if what he said sounded credible and defensible, then we wouldn't have to lynch him in every thread he contributes to.

Just becuase I dont agree with his point of view does not make him any less intelligent.

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If not chemicals then where do are thoughts come from?

That does not mean that I dont have control over my actions.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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What causes your actions? Your thoughts. And what causes your thoughts? Chemical reactions in your brain.

Just becuase those are the nessesary brain functions to have thought, has almost nothing to do with the fact that I used the natural functions of my brain, to decide my own actions.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I dont think that I did just "think" it, nor do I "think" what I just thought, becuase obviously I must not be capable of thought becuase I have no control over what I think becuase the chemicals of my brain are decieving me into think that I have thought.

How ya doing, buddy?