From: D from BC on
In article <P6-dnZrBv_GGRCzWnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com>,
regor(a)midwest.net says...
>
> "D from BC" <myrealaddress(a)comic.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.261b13c0a41db4f8989720(a)209.197.12.12...
> > Are you saying that death by Spanish Inquisition, Crusades and witch
> > hunts were ok because there's so much more death throughout history?
>
> Nope
>
> > Do you realize the reasoning you're using can be used to tone down any
> > atrocity.
> >
>
> I can't answer for what anyone else did or does, but I have seen over and
> over Atheists blaming the majority of deaths on religion and it's simply a
> lie. So, what's the true tally? Something like deaths from Atheism 95%,
> deaths from religion 5%?
>
> RogerN

Is this going to make you believe atheists are evil blood thirsty
psychopathic killers that would be happy in watching Christians suffer
in Christian death camps using environmentally friendly solar power?

Here's an interesting video with visuals of Christianity + Nazi history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvmsieqUyOo

What wars do you know of that 'Death to Christians' was the sole
motivator for war?

From: D from BC on
In article <rm63r55t9mn4c33emhbu2j67i0nlr0o1db(a)4ax.com>,
OneBigLever(a)InfiniteSeries.Org says...
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:43:38 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >So the reason why you have faith in God is because you use faith for
> >other things?
>
>
> Use faith?
>
> Yer an idiot.
>
> The faith is that there is a creator. All the "religions" of Earth
> follow that rule. Some have more than one "god" or "creator".
>
> We have only ONE.

Larkin claims that we commonly operate on faith.
For example...
He has faith his food doesn't contain E. Coli. That's because he has no
evidence that his food is good or bad. But he eats his food on faith
that it's safe.
No evidence = faith
Since faith is believing without evidence and many actions are done
without evidence then faith is justified which makes God justified.
If I got that right, that's his reasoning for why God exists.

Sound messed up?



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D from BC
British Columbia
From: D from BC on
In article <f6o3r5lq0hu27ha7lhipa26lhn1s6evlf6(a)4ax.com>,
OneBigLever(a)InfiniteSeries.Org says...
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:43:38 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <d2v2r59e6n5srro23eq4r33t3g3fc69pbj(a)4ax.com>,
> >WarmUnderbellyOfAmerica(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org says...
> >>
> >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:02:57 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Does it 'work' by making people feel happy that by believing in Jesus
> >> >they avoid being punished in hell forever.
> >>
> >>
> >> I think he was referring more to the behavioral parables.
> >>
> >> You ain't real bright, boy.
> >
> >
> >Yikes! I hope not. Some parts of the bible are horrific!
> >
> >Like that story of kids making fun of a bald guy and the bald guy has
> >God send two female bears to maul 42 children.
> >Kings 2:23-34
> >
> >The bible might be useful if you wanna learn being in the 1st century
> >with behaviour such as slavery and genocide.
> >btw ..The Christians tell me it was nice loving slavery. Put a positive
> >spin on anything and people will suck it up.
> >
> >
> >
> Show me the section where man sent bears out to kill someone.
>
> You are an idiot that has sucked up stupidity.

KJV 2 Kings 2
This will need work by a good spin doctor/priest.
http://www.godrules.net/library/kjv/kjv2kin2.htm

2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying
of Elisha which he spake.

2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by
the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked
him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the
name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood,
and tare forty and two children of them.

2:25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he
returned to Samaria.

Here's some Christian spin doctor ideas..
'Tare' means the bears tickled them with licks from their rough bear
tongues.
Maybe the bears barfed up tar to make the kids all messy.
Maybe the kids were all evil and just needed to be assassinated by God.



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D from BC
British Columbia
From: D from BC on
In article <a524r51rn73jjudigj69jkd5et7tqorrjo(a)4ax.com>,
jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com says...
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:41:56 -0700, Mr.Eko
> <ekointhedirt(a)lostisland.org> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:02:57 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>If I got this right...
> >>The reason why you believe in God is because it works for those that
> >>believe in God.
> >>uhh.. That's too ambiguous for me..
> >>I'm understanding that as: The reason why you believe in God is because
> >>others believe in God.
> >>Correct?
> >
> >
> > It appears that you have never had a beautiful, wonderful, early
> >morning, early spring walk through a flowering Western US desert or
> >Eastern US woodland.
> >
> > That would be a mere two of the reasons why an observer of such wonders
> >becomes certain that it is the result of creation.
>
> It's not certainty to me, but it's sure suspicious that Earth is such
> an improbably beautiful place, and that we are alive now. The
> probability of those things happening is so close to zero that it
> doesn't matter.
>
> Consider living near the triple point of water: clouds, rivers, snow,
> all at the same time.
>
> Consider the neatly separated minerals for the taking, and the
> fuel/oxidizer in abundance. Consider the clear atmosphere, dense
> enough for flight but clear enough that we can see the stars.
>
> I bet D from BC is unimpressed.
>
> John

I'm more impressed about everything because I make no claims as to what
started the universe. I have a mystery... you don't.

You claim the supernatural and the supernatural has a bad track record.

God makes lightning,earthquakes..Mystery solved... Not supernatural.
Demons cause disease..Mystery solved... Not supernatural.
Witches are to blame..Mystery solved..Not supernatural.
Demon possesion is to blame ..Mystery solved.. Not supernatural.
Rainbows are a sign from God..Mystery solved. Not supernatural.

btw.... Jesus should have turned water into freshly squeezed orange
juice. This is vastly more impressive since oranges are not native in
the middle east.








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D from BC
British Columbia
From: brent on
On Mar 30, 7:12 am, John Larkin
<jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:40:43 +1100, "David L. Jones"
>
> <altz...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >D from BC wrote:
> >> mmm sseems a little quiet in SED so...
> >> Time for another mega-troll.
>
> >> Are Christian beliefs in conflict with good electronics engineering?
>
> >There appears to be no evidence that delusion and electronics design ability
> >are mutually exclusive.
>
> >Dave.
>
> Not as long as you're happy spinning the pcb etch four or five times,
> and shipping a lot of bugs. To get it right the first time, you can't
> lie to yourself about anything.
>
> John

Anyone that thinks they can get any meaningful new board design done
in one pass is delusional.