gods

Christian and other apologists and casuists keep telling us that infinity is a nonsense concept that is not in reality. Of course they do this in the context of trying to cobble together coherent apologetics and sophistry for their gods. As is usually the case with apologetics... ironically...

Is the concept of god at its most basic, most primal form that of a man literally in the sky? If so, how might have this come about at first? My personal hypothesis: Anatomically modern humans had been burying their dead for a while. Whenever the "Silverback", so to speak, the lead male of the...

For those of you that believe in the stories of YHWH, like the the story around Noah and his Ark. or Sodom and Gomorrah. Do you think YHWH is an Evil god? What do you think about his alleged deeds? also for those that do not belief in the existence , assuming the old myths would be true, what...

Does your god ask himself where he came from ? :D

Why are we so obsessed with our identity? Imprinting, Gods,& labels we give ourselves * I am not talking about Genomic imprinting, rather the psychological aspect of "imprinting" So why are we (as human beings) seemingly so obsessed with our identity? "I'm a Conservative," or "I'm an implicit...

So what other Gods and Prophets do we have and how in the world is one account about a specific God or Prophet more valid than the other accounts of different Gods and Prophets? For example: Zeus, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, Mohammad, Thor, Xenu. All liars? There isn't any difference between...

We all know that the five planets visible to the naked eye were named long long ago by the Romans and given the names of their gods. My question is, did the Romans actually think at first that the planets were gods traveling through the skies, or did they have their gods first and then name the...

In case you have missed it this is a great intro duction to Thunderbolts of the Gods, they are propenents of some interesting theories. Some of those theories have some merit, some don't. They have a picture of the day and here is an interesting one...

My woo-inclined father-in-law sent me a link to a video called "Thunderbolts of the Gods". In the e-mail, he provided a one-paragraph summary, as follows: The film is an hour long, and I haven't yet taken the time to view it...it may be some time before I can. However, based on the...

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC47086020070905?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true I am not flying that airline. At least they didn't sacrafise the mechanincs but I don't know.

For fun, let's give existing gods new roles in science and rank them accordingly to the reduction of science. I don't know which forum this goes into. Science, religion, whatever. Hopefully this is the right one :) I'll start off with a few examples to show you how. Top Ranking Gods - Gods...

Reading and posting in a few of the current threads that have to do with why people in different parts of the world believe in different gods got me to thinking about this: We hear religious people all the time talking about how their god talks to them. But why is the god that does all the...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7630851222567912489&q=%22god%27s+next+army%22 It's, um, "interesting" at least.

If god(s) exist, would your worldview consider them to be natural objects?

I imagine this going to start going around a lot since it has being featured on CNN's homepage. I've already had a few friends who know I'm a skeptic ask me what I think about it: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/12/leaking.tree.ap/index.html I've basically just said that this article is so...

BBC News reports that an Ukrainian man got eaten by lions, claiming that "God would save him, if he exists". Of course, we can't be sure if the eating was because God's non-existence or God existing and just not caring. But, nonetheless, worthy of high-lighting, I thought.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060531/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_testing_times;_ylt=AhF0Vbj8RNzwJJtpVDNNcb8Bxg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA-- So it's god's will. God is punishing them...but for what? The religious will, I assume, conclude that it is for all kinds of nasty things like...

I was just wondering the arguments for and against this thought. The god of Christianity and Islam and Shintoism and Hinduism (all 10,000 sects) are all the same god. To me it makes little sense since if all the gods are the same then why would god give so varied instructions to the various...

long long time ago a christian Pastor pointed out to me that there were God's children and Humans on earth. And maybe there still are two distict species on earth. He even found me the part in the Bible which says there were humans on earth who were not of decendents of Adam and Eve. I do not...

Is it Zeus?

Interesting editorial by interesting person Kevin Phillips:

Looks like MUD. No rest for the weary in South Asia.

I've often wondered why God's knowledge seems to be limited to exactly the amount of knowledge that the people of the time had and no more. Wouldn't an omniscient being have been able to provide some detail, however small, that wasn't available to the people of the time? For example... Okay...

I've asked this question at http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=48649 as well. Any thoughts?

Slip it to a virgin in the dead of night? ;) No, but seriously, that is the claim of the author of this book - 60 Things God Said About Sex Amazon lists two Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) that appear in this book: 'ungodly marriage' and 'multiple mating.' The lone Amazon reviewer...

A friend sent me a link to this story. It's written by Scott Adams, whom some of you may know as the author behind the famous "Dilbert" comic strip. It's around 130 double-spaced, very large-font pages long - it should only take about an hour or so to go through. While Adams states that the...

A friend sent me a link to this story. It's written by Scott Adams, whom some of you may know as the author behind the famous "Dilbert" comic strip. It's around 130 double-spaced, very large-font pages long - it should only take about an hour or so to go through. While Adams states that the...

From this thread So, how can one maintain consistency, in every single last detail, without the explicit power to do so?

God's Omnipotence From this thread Am merely reposting this because I thought BJQ87's reply was such a good answer. :)

"God works in mysterious ways." "God's ways are not our ways." "Everything happens for a reason." etc. etc. When Katrina destroyed New Orleans, most Christians believed that God did not send the hurricane with an immediate motive in mind. While God controls the weather patterns, he does...