Fun With Logic!

[NobbyNobbs]

Faith doesn't require absence of evidence. The psalmist had faith
because he perceived God's hand in the things he observed.

Psalm 148:5
Let them praise the name of the LORD,For He commanded and they were created.

In fact, people without faith are said to have no excuse for not believing because creation itself should convince them to have faith.


Romans 1:20
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,

Neither is God denying or trying to convince us otherwise but openly takes credit for the things created.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: “ I am the LORD, and there is no other.

So if there is an argument here to toss around-it isn't a biblically-based one.

Wow.

I posted a funny quote from a man known for his satirical writing.

You took it way seriously.

I suggest you see a doctor concerning your case of CRI (Cranial-Rectal Inversion).

 

[Ateius]

Reverse Pascal’s Wager

1. Humans have believed in and worshiped millions of gods throughout history.
2. It is equally likely that any of these gods exist as for the probability that no gods exist.
3. Your chance of believing in the wrong god is one god less than 100%.
4. The one true god (assuming it exists) would be angrier with a theist for denying the true god AND for worshiping a false god, than with an atheist who denies all gods equally.
5. Therefore the safest bet is to disbelieve in all gods.

Your odds are even worse than that, because even if you have the right deity, how do you know you're worshipping him/her/it/them correctly? How many splinter sects are there of Christianity alone?

 

[Frozenwolf150]

OP is nominated.

Well thanks, but Tricky is probably going to disqualify it since it was posted 3 days before the end of March and hardly anyone had noticed it at the time. Regardless of what happens, I appreciate the sentiment.

God is a Pervert

1. God exists

2. God knows everything, including things that never actually happened.

3. Like being Nicole Kidman, but with male genitalia the size of the Washington Monument, copulating with a porcupine who won the Nobel Prize for Studies of Russel Crowe's Grand Unification Theory (actual title of the prize, not the subject of physics for the physics prize.) He knows this experience, not just "about" it.

4. Therefore God is a pervert.

I actually had a couple like this in my original list, but I took them out because I thought the jokes were too easy. The premise was that God is omnipresent / touches everyone / is inside everyone. Three guesses what I did with a premise like that.

 

[sphenisc]

God is a Pervert

1. God exists

2. God knows everything, including things that never actually happened.

3. Like being Nicole Kidman, but with male genitalia the size of the Washington Monument, copulating with a porcupine who won the Nobel Prize for Studies of Russel Crowe's Grand Unification Theory (actual title of the prize, not the subject of physics for the physics prize.) He knows this experience, not just "about" it.

4. Therefore God is a pervert.

Non sequitur. You really need to include a perversion in the argument for it to work.

 

[Radrook]

Wow.

I posted a funny quote from a man known for his satirical writing.

You took it way seriously.

Funny to you since it constitutes ridicule of what others take seriously.

I suggest you see a doctor concerning your case of CRI (Cranial-Rectal Inversion).

Insult taken and noted and your requested evasive actions are in progress.

BTW

Considering your pathological need to denigrate at the slightest sign of a disagreement, an emergency crash course in basic human decency would work you wonders. IMHO

 

[RobRoy]

Funny to you since it constitutes ridicule of what others take seriously.

All jokes poke fun at someone or something. Otherwise they wouldn't be called jokes. This is hardly a useful counter-argument. Evidence suggests that God can take a joke with the lack of lightning-struck individuals in the world over.

 

[Frozenwolf150]

Considering your my pathological need to denigrate at the slightest sign of a disagreement, an emergency crash course in basic human decency would work you me wonders. IMHO

Translated by Silentknight.


Also RobRoy, that's not entirely accurate. I get struck by lightning all the time. It doesn't really bother me though, since it's a sign that my chances of winning the lottery any day now are fairly good.

 

[Hawk one]

Also RobRoy, that's not entirely accurate. I get struck by lightning all the time.

It's a good thing that you have strict parents that keeps grounding you, eh?





(I apologise for this groan-worthy pun, but someone had to say it. OK, nobody actually had to say it, but I bet at least one person besides me would have liked to say it.)

 

[RobRoy]

Also RobRoy, that's not entirely accurate. I get struck by lightning all the time. It doesn't really bother me though, since it's a sign that my chances of winning the lottery any day now are fairly good.

I sit corrected.

 

[NobbyNobbs]

Funny to you since it constitutes ridicule of what others take seriously.

Are you suggesting that your god is so weak that he can't stand up to one anonymous person on a forum quoting a bit of satire written by a man long dead? Does one joke really tear apart your reality so easily? If so, maybe you should find a stronger god.

Insult taken and noted and your requested evasive actions are in progress.

What is it you think I am evading?

Considering your pathological need to denigrate at the slightest sign of a disagreement, an emergency crash course in basic human decency would work you wonders. IMHO

Perhaps you'd be willing to offer proof of your diagnosis?

 

[shadron]

The basic premise is flawed: God is not the source of all, God IS the totality of ALL that IS.

Well, that's enough for me. Take this pantheistic heretic out and burn him at the stake.

 

[RobRoy]

Are you suggesting that your god is so weak that he can't stand up to one anonymous person on a forum quoting a bit of satire written by a man long dead? Does one joke really tear apart your reality so easily? If so, maybe you should find a stronger god.

Does anyone still worship any of the old gods? I'm talking like Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, Thor or the like?

Those were gods who could take a joke, and if they couldn't, they let you know post-haste. None of this mamby-pamby silence and using humorless adherents to shore them up.

 

[m_huber]

Does anyone still worship any of the old gods? I'm talking like Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, Thor or the like?

Those were gods who could take a joke, and if they couldn't, they let you know post-haste. None of this mamby-pamby silence and using humorless adherents to shore them up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283907.stm

 

[RobRoy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283907.stm

Much thanks!

Also, interesting how the established religion, Greek Orthodox in this case, is coming down so hard on this new/old faith. They must not have anyone else to persecute in their spare time!

 

[arthwollipot]

Much thanks!

Also, interesting how the established religion, Greek Orthodox in this case, is coming down so hard on this new/old faith. They must not have anyone else to persecute in their spare time!

There are Norse revivalists too, but I'm not sure how they practice. The old Norse religion was pretty heavy on the blood sacrifice.

 

[RobRoy]

There are Norse revivalists too, but I'm not sure how they practice. The old Norse religion was pretty heavy on the blood sacrifice.

So am I. Is that a bad thing?