On 7/12/2024 11:41 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>> All you've shown is that the humans who wrote the Bible were human.
>
>
> Never said otherwise.

Yet you regularly use it to demonize and decry.

You scumsucking secular old leftarded hypocrite.

"Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
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>
>
> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:XnsB1ACD38BC1AB7629555@185.151.15.190...
>> In the Name of Jesus <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in
>> news:v6pi30 $2knpg$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>>> On 12/07/2024 3:37 am, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>> news:v6onj4
>>>> $2g188$8@dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:XnsB1AB7F2475B95629555@185.151.15.160...
>>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>>>> news:v6m78d$1v0jr$8@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:XnsB1AA828AE711629555@185.151.15.190...
>>>>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>>>>>> news:v6jl2l $1ebn2$20@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:XnsB1A9D7EAF3E86629555@185.151.15.190...
>>>>>>>>>> Sam <samt@samt.invalid> wrote in news:lf3kckFcicnU1
>>>>>>>> @mid.individual.net:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 11:37:20 +1000, In the Name of Jesus
>>>>>>>>>>> <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, if we all walked in truth.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> In the Name of Jesus
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> LOL! That is quite the babbling signature you have. It seems
>>>>>>>>>>> to say, "Hate people that do not believe as I do!"
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That IS what the Bible requires..............
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Death to Followers of Other Religions
>>>>>>>>>> (Exodus 22:19)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Kill Nonbelievers
>>>>>>>>>> (2 Chronicles 15:12-13)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
>>>>>>>>>> (Deuteronomy 13:13-19)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Kill Followers of Other Religions.
>>>>>>>>>> (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You mean the bible written by PEOPLE?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "God's Holy Word"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Divinely Inspired"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Holy Writ"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So written by people.. possibly even delusional people, and
>>>>>>> that's suppose to be accepted blindly and without question?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What about when the Bible contradicts itself.. how are we
>>>>>>> suppose
>> to
>>>>>>> take that if we can't accept that the authors are flawed human
>> beings
>>>>>>> and thus the Bible is imperfect?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take that up with Pastor Hartung, he
>>>>>> runs away every time I ask him these sorts
>>>>>> of questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm taking it up with YOU.. you're the one claiming the Bible has
>>>>> to
>> be
>>>>> blindly obeyed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Huh?
>>>>
>>>> What I posted above was satire.
>>>>
>>>> The Bible is just contradictory
>>>> and nonsensical gobbledy-gook invented
>>>> by illiterate goat herders to explain
>>>> what they didn't know.
>>>
>>> You don't get it, Mitchell.
>>>
>>> You use the bible (e.g., your nonsensical gobbledy-gook) as your
>>> argument and reference for your truth.
>>>
>>> You are the greatest bible believing, non-bible believing, atheist I
>>> know. :-).
>>
>>
>>
>> The first step toward atheism
>> is actually READING the Bible.
>
> Ok, I'll bite.. How does reading the bible establish that Gods do not,
> can not, and have never existed....
>
> I mean I can see where you might have doubts, and become agnostic..
> but to flip to the total denial seems unfounded.... After all, what
> would an ant make of us? What makes you think an intelligence as much
> above us as we are above an ant simply could not exist?
>
> So let me try your own argument. Prove that God doesn't exist.

The demand for proof of a negative:
always the sign of a failed argument.

>
> I mean as an atheist you must have proof for your convictions or by
> what seems to be your standards you're wrong.
>
> Which, BTW is why I'm an agnostic.. I realize that nether I nor even
> the entire human race have the answers to everything.
>
>
>

On 7/12/2024 11:44 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> The demand for proof of a negative:
> always the sign of a failed argument.

The endless panoply of negativity on display - sign of a failed leftard.

Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
news:669145e7$0$212405$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

> In article <g0g09jdstkdabf9jmfrirouffi8hn82f32@4ax.com>,
> twang@the.noodle says...
>>
>> Scout wrote:
>> > "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>> > > "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>> > > news:v6jl2r
>> > >> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>> ...
>> > >>> Isn't it fun watching Fox News cringe
>> > >>> while reporting on the latest job creation
>> > >>
>> > >> US Unemployment Rate (I:USUR)
>> > >> US Unemployment Rate is at 4.10%, compared to 4.00% last month
>> > >> and
>> > > 3.60%
>> > >> last year.
>>
>> Unemployment rates under 4.5% are unsustainably low, and
>> are inflationary.
>>
>> > > Biden brought the Trump 6.4% rate
>> > > down to 3.6% and you are complaining?
>> >
>> > Average Yearly Inflation Rate by President
>> > An average of the year-over-year inflation rate for all months of
>> > each presidential term.
>> > Trump 2017 - 2021 1.9%
>> > Biden 2021 - 5.7%
>> >
>> > https://www.investopedia.com/us-inflation-rate-by-president-8546447
>>
>> The post-covid inflation was caused mainly by Trump
>> deficit spending. Trump ran up the national debt more
>> than in any other term in history.
>>
>> 1. What did Bidin do that caused inflation?
>> 2. What did Trump do that reduced inflation?
>>
>> Answers: 1. nothing, and 2. only this: Trump appointed
>> Powell as Fed chairman (then quickly started attacking
>> him). Powell hiked interest rates around 5% in response
>> to inflation. In normal times this would have caused a
>> recession. It didn't... no rate cuts yet, and the
>> economy is roaring. Bidenomics, right?
>>
>> You must not know that the CPI inflation numbers for June
>> came out today. Prices went *down* last month by 0.1%,
>> which is an annual rate of -1.2%. That's *negative*
>> inflation. Core inflation (excluding food & energy) went
>> up 0.2%, or about +2.4% annually.
>>
>> Now tell us who gets the credit for that.
>>
>> > Yea, I am complaining that Biden has an inflation rate 300% higher
>> > than Trump's so far.
>>
>> That's a gift from Trump, not Biden.
>
> Yet all the shit started when Joe took office.

You mean like Covid? WHo was president
during that?

On 7/12/2024 11:47 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>> Yet all the shit started when Joe took office.
>
>
> You mean like Covid? WHo was president
> during that?

No...who was the President who CREATED that?

Obammy.

You moron cornholer!

"Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
news:v6rjot$33em7$5@dont-email.me:

>
>
> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:XnsB1AC83E8F64DA629555@185.151.15.190...
>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>> news:v6onj7$2g188$13@dont-email.me:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>> news:XnsB1AB814D77A8E629555@185.151.15.160...
>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>> news:v6m78m $1v0jr$20@dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:XnsB1AA83C20B73C629555@185.151.15.160...
>>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>> news:v6jl2r
>>>>>> $1ebn2$28@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:XnsB1A9D16A65FE629555@185.151.15.160...
>>>>>>>> Baxter <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> news:v6htj8$12l5j$3
>>>>>> @dont-
>>>>>>>> email.me:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:668c3812$0$1895503$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> In article <XnsB1A98B6E059CF629555@185.151.15.190>,
>>>> noemail@aol.com
>>>>>>>>>> says...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>> news:668c2930$0$1895499$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> > In article <XnsB1A97F3606ECE629555@185.151.15.190>,
>>>>>> noemail@aol.com
>>>>>>>>>>> > says...
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>> >> news:668becab$0$2422120 $882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > In article <XnsB1A8D17FD1299629555@185.151.15.160>,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > noemail@aol.com says...
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> news:668b191e$0$3620720$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > In article <v6f2io$gjqe$1@dont-email.me>, bax02
>>>>>>>>>>> >> _spamblock@baxcode.com
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > says...
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Watson Herbusch <paid@x.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> news:v6etbq$42s$5@toxic.dizum.net:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > On 07 Jul 2024, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > Doctor) posted some
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > news:v6e2ig$4fj$5@gallifrey.nk.ca:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> In article <X_viO.61872$C9He.19099@fx15.ams4>,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Andrew <andrew.321.remov@usa.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>One becomes an atheist when they do not
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>want God in their life. Not because there
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>is no evidence for God.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>Because evidence for our most awesome
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>Creator is there in the very *creation* that
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>He made;
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>And is evident for ~anyone~ who wants to
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>know.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Atheist science is a contradiction.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > Atheism is a religion.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Nope.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> =========
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Atheism is not a belief system nor is it a
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> religion.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> While there are some religions that are atheistic
>>>> (certain
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> sects of Buddhism, for example), that does not mean
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> that atheism is a religion. To put it in a more
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> humorous way:
>>>>>> If
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> atheism is a
>>>>>>>>>>> >> religion,
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/about-
>>>> atheism/
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> ============
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > It is and your cites are biased.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Everything that proves you wrong is biased.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > But if I post something from Fox or RSNB or something
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > you
>>>>>> claim
>>>>>>>>>>> >> > it's biased.
>>>>>>>>>>> >> >
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Fox News ADMITS they are biased shills for Trump.
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> Off the air, Fox News stars blasted
>>>>>>>>>>> >> the election fraud claims they peddled
>>>>>>>>>>> >> FEBRUARY 16, 2023
>>>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >> https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-
>>>> false-
>>>>>>>> clai
>>>>>>>>>>> >> ms- trump-election-2020
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > So?
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Fox lies for Trump.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> They admit they lie for Trump.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Next?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> MSM and the white house has been lying about Joe for 3 years.
>>>>>>>>>> Do
>>>> you
>>>>>>>>>> have a point to make?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> They been saying tRump good, Biden bad.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Isn't it fun watching Fox News cringe
>>>>>>>> while reporting on the latest job creation
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> US Unemployment Rate (I:USUR)
>>>>>>> US Unemployment Rate is at 4.10%, compared to 4.00% last month
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>> 3.60%
>>>>>>> last year.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Biden brought the Trump 6.4% rate
>>>>>> down to 3.6% and you are complaining?
>>>>>
>>>>> Average Yearly Inflation
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We were talking about unemployment.
>>>
>>> Yea, and how many people have LEFT the job market under Biden and
>>> are no longer even counted as unemployed?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Huh??
>>
>>
>> US job gains surge past expectations,
>> wage growth quickens
>> June 7, 2024
>> https://tinyurl.com/yjt363vs
>
> and we are still below pre-covid job numbers, and many Americans
> complain there aren't enough jobs.

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:28:47 -0400, "Scout"
<me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:

>
>
>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:q0709j5rrn8aj7t2d2s44stoo8p2pjj7b0@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:58 -0400, "Scout"
>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:rq109jtkr3flolmv3n7luc2cugdmfc3vt6@4ax.com...
>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:13:14 -0400, "Scout"
>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>news:h28u8j98e8hm2gq7c61djiqbdeqvb0mbs9@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:08:56 -0400, "Scout"
>>>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Seems like it. It's just a different faith.. I mean they even have
>>>>>>>their
>>>>>>>own
>>>>>>>churches. So either they are lying about their lack of faith or they
>>>>>>>are
>>>>>>>committing tax evasion and should go to jail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Even the hardened Kevrob atheist admitted he leaves the door ever so
>>>>>>>> slightly open, which was honest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>True, you have to give him that. I tend to be more of an agnostic type
>>>>>>>of
>>>>>>>person. I would acknowledge the possibility of one or more entities
>>>>>>>which
>>>>>>>would be god like, but currently we have no true evidence of such
>>>>>>>being(s).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We don't currently have any true evidence of the existence of pink
>>>>>> garden unicorns. Are you agnostic about their existence?
>>>>>
>>>>>Yep. If you believe in them and it makes you happy, and doesn't harm
>>>>>anyone
>>>>>else. Go for it.
>>>>>After all, in all the Universe there well could be something we might
>>>>>call
>>>>>a
>>>>>pink garden unicorn.. or there could not.
>>>>>
>>>>>With up to 2 trillion galaxies in the universe that we know of or
>>>>>suspect,
>>>>>and each galaxy having about 100 Billion stars be galaxy, and if we
>>>>>assume
>>>>>1.6 planets per star.. and then if we assume only 0.1% of those are
>>>>>habitable, and only 0.1% of those are inhabited.. That leaves a LOT of
>>>>>room
>>>>>for a pink garden unicorn to exist or not.
>>>>
>>>> What about the Keebler Elves? Could *they* be lurking in a tree near
>>>> you?
>>>
>>>Lame evasion.
>>
>> How so?
>
>Because your line of questioning as already failed.

Okay. Let's just say for the sake of argument that that part of my
questioning failed. How do you deal with my *next* question, about
the Keebler Elves? Or was it just a lame evasion on your part?

>>>>>>>However, if our thoughts about the size of the Universe is anywhere
>>>>>>>close
>>>>>>>to
>>>>>>>being true, and the time that the Universe is thought to have
>>>>>>>existed..
>>>>>>>there could be entities that are as far above us, as we are above
>>>>>>>ants.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible, in your opinion, to rule out the existence of certain
>>>>>> *types* of gods?
>>>>>
>>>>>Depends on what type you're talking about.
>>>>>
>>>>>> For example we know there can be no omnipotent omni-
>>>>>> benevolent god of the Christian sort out there
>>>>>
>>>>>Depends are you talking true omnipotence or something so far in advance
>>>>>of
>>>>>our civilization at the point of contact to appear so?
>>>>
>>>> Either one.
>>>
>>>Then I would put it that a civilization advanced enough to easily travel
>>>between the stars would appear damn near omnipotent to the people 2000
>>>years
>>>ago.
>>
>> True. What's your point?
>
>That you just agreed with me, thus establishing my point made that you can't
>possibly know what you asserted you did above.

Tell that to the Christians who assert that they *can* detect
omnipotence in their god.

>>>>>Further, from my readings God is not omni-benevolent, in fact in some
>>>>>ways
>>>>>God seems quite selfish, particularly when it comes worship.
>>>>>See Exodus 20:3-5/6 depending on which version you use.
>>>>>
>>>>>Of course that is somewhat contradicted by claims there are no other
>>>>>Gods
>>>>>while at the same time declaring there shall be no Gods before him.
>>>>>
>>>>>So, yea, there is a lot of wiggle room there. I certainly know of no
>>>>>claim
>>>>>of omnipotence or omni-benevolence from the Biblical God.
>>>>>I mean he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for a rather petty reason by a
>>>>>few
>>>>>of
>>>>>the people who lived there. Hardly seems omni-benevolent to me.
>>>>>I mean consider endless eternal damnation for limited and very finite
>>>>>offenses... Does that sound like being omni-benevolent?
>>>>>Yes, the Bible is full of such contradictions within itself and within
>>>>>religions teachings of it.
>>>>>Now perhaps in God's view his is both.. but from ours, not so much.
>>>>
>>>> Note:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zf626yc/revision/1
>>>>
>>>> So you're saying if the Christian god exists, he must be evil?
>>>
>>>Would depend on your point of view, wouldn't it?
>>
>> What would prevent God from sharing this rather important information
>> with us about human suffering from his point of view?
>
>Lack of understanding? Knowledge you would never understand it at your age
>of development.
>
>I mean do you explain to a 9 month old baby why you are going to stab them
>with a sharp object, or do you do so because you know it's for the good of
>the baby?
>
>I mean you could try to explain it.. but realizing it's futile to do so, who
>would bother?

A god who can't explain to us something as simple as why he's making
us suffer must be a very weak god indeed. Perhaps you're confusing
the idea of a god with the idea of space aliens.

>>>Even benevolence can seem like utter cruelty to the ill informed and visa
>>>verse.
>>
>> So is this the "best of all possible worlds," in your view?
>
>Hardly, but it could be better than it might have been otherwise.. See above
>about the baby receiving a shot.

So we can rule out the existence of gods who could make our world a
perfect place?

>>>> I
>>>> wouldn't quarrel with that -- but since Christians are generally
>>>> unwilling to agree with a statement like that, I generally phrase it
>>>> as "the Christian god does not exist."
>>>
>>>Well, first we would have to establish exactly what the term "Christian
>>>god"
>>>means and exactly how that is supported. In a discussion like that
>>>precise
>>>and specific meaning would need to be determined and supported. Not just
>>>from the view of the people saying it but also what they can support as
>>>being directly referenced. I mean it's nice to say God is omnipotent, but
>>>did God ever state that and to what if any limits, either inherent or self
>>>imposed.
>>
>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really powerful;
>
>Agreed and given the civilization at the time, that wouldn't be that hard to
>do. Heck we could probably do at least some of that today if we wanted to.

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:29:18 -0400, "Scout"
<me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:

>
>
>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:3hr09jhr1nob645n6c0qv68fmi915e42k2@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:17:14 -0700, "Andrew"
>> <andrew.321.remov@usa.net> wrote:
>>
>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote in message
>>>news:q0709j5rrn8aj7t2d2s44stoo8p2pjj7b0@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really powerful; so
>>>> we don't necessarily have to even mention the idea of omnipotence
>>>> when investigating all the suffering around us and asking why God
>>>> would allow it, if he existed.
>>>
>>>The suffering, sorrow, pain and death in this realm are all temporary.
>>
>> What are they doing here at all, temporary or not?
>
>Necessary to growth, development and self dependency.

Some forms of suffering are. Others most definitely are not. Would
you support the abolishment of hospitals and police officers so we can
have more suffering leading to growth, development, and
self-dependency?

C_V <c_v@invalid.net> wrote in news:v6rpum$34kb9$2@dont-email.me:

> On 7/12/2024 11:41 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> All you've shown is that the humans who wrote the Bible were human.
>>
>>
>> Never said otherwise.
>
> Yet you regularly use it to demonize and decry.

If "Biblidal Truth" (flat earth,
geocentrism, Ye Floode) is in fact a
lie whose fault is that?

C_V <c_v@invalid.net> wrote in news:v6rqag$34kb9$7@dont-email.me:

> On 7/12/2024 11:47 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> Yet all the shit started when Joe took office.
>>
>>
>> You mean like Covid? WHo was president
>> during that?
>
> No...who was the President who CREATED that?
>
> Obammy.
>

Even Trumpers don't claim that.............

On 12 Jul 2024, Baxter <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> posted some
news:v6rfgv$32fue$3@dont-email.me:

> Vincent Maycock <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:nqa19jtt7jpo1e9fphpti76r84nclhk9ar@4ax.com:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:22:58 -0700, "Andrew"
>> <andrew.321.remov@usa.net> wrote:
>>
>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote in message
>>>news:3hr09jhr1nob645n6c0qv68fmi915e42k2@4ax.com...
>>>> "Andrew" wrote:
>>>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really
>>>>>> powerful; so we don't necessarily have to even mention the idea
>>>>>> of omnipotence when investigating all the suffering around us and
>>>>>> asking why God would allow it, if he existed.
>>>>>
>>>>>The suffering, sorrow, pain and death in this realm are all
>>>>>temporary.
>>>>
>>>> What are they doing here at all, temporary or not?
>>>
>>>You should know by now. And if you don't,
>>>it indicates you probably don't want to know.
>>
>> The standard Christian explanation is that suffering results
>> necessarily from our freedom to choose. So we bring suffering on
>> ourselves when we make wrong choices instead of following God.
>>
>> The problem with this is that some suffering isn't our fault, so the
>> standard explanation fails to explain that kind of commonplace
>> suffering.
>>
>>
>
> Actually, Adam and Eve sinned so now EVERYBODY forever and ever has to
> suffer.

You should try reading the Bible in the outhouse whilst using the pages
to wipe your butt.

"Galatians 1:4: The Lord Jesus Christ is the One "who gave Himself for
our sins..."

In article <XnsB1AD858181527629555@185.151.15.160>, noemail@aol.com
says...
>
> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> news:v6rjot$33em7$5@dont-email.me:
>
> >
> >
> > "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:XnsB1AC83E8F64DA629555@185.151.15.190...
> >> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> >> news:v6onj7$2g188$13@dont-email.me:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:XnsB1AB814D77A8E629555@185.151.15.160...
> >>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> >>>> news:v6m78m $1v0jr$20@dont-email.me:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:XnsB1AA83C20B73C629555@185.151.15.160...
> >>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> >>>> news:v6jl2r
> >>>>>> $1ebn2$28@dont-email.me:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> >>>>>>> news:XnsB1A9D16A65FE629555@185.151.15.160...
> >>>>>>>> Baxter <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote in
> >>>>>>>> news:v6htj8$12l5j$3
> >>>>>> @dont-
> >>>>>>>> email.me:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> >>>>>>>>> news:668c3812$0$1895503$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> In article <XnsB1A98B6E059CF629555@185.151.15.190>,
> >>>> noemail@aol.com
> >>>>>>>>>> says...
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> >>>>>>>>>>> news:668c2930$0$1895499$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> > In article <XnsB1A97F3606ECE629555@185.151.15.190>,
> >>>>>> noemail@aol.com
> >>>>>>>>>>> > says...
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> news:668becab$0$2422120 $882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> > In article <XnsB1A8D17FD1299629555@185.151.15.160>,
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> > noemail@aol.com says...
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> news:668b191e$0$3620720$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > In article <v6f2io$gjqe$1@dont-email.me>, bax02
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> _spamblock@baxcode.com
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > says...
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Watson Herbusch <paid@x.com> wrote in
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> news:v6etbq$42s$5@toxic.dizum.net:
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > On 07 Jul 2024, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > Doctor) posted some
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > news:v6e2ig$4fj$5@gallifrey.nk.ca:
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> In article <X_viO.61872$C9He.19099@fx15.ams4>,
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Andrew <andrew.321.remov@usa.net> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>One becomes an atheist when they do not
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>want God in their life. Not because there
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>is no evidence for God.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>Because evidence for our most awesome
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>Creator is there in the very *creation* that
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>He made;
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>And is evident for ~anyone~ who wants to
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>know.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >> Atheist science is a contradiction.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> > Atheism is a religion.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Nope.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> =========
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> Atheism is not a belief system nor is it a
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> religion.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> While there are some religions that are atheistic
> >>>> (certain
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> sects of Buddhism, for example), that does not mean
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> that atheism is a religion. To put it in a more
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> humorous way:
> >>>>>> If
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> atheism is a
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> religion,
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/about-
> >>>> atheism/
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >> ============
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> > It is and your cites are biased.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >> Everything that proves you wrong is biased.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> > But if I post something from Fox or RSNB or something
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> > you
> >>>>>> claim
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> > it's biased.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> Fox News ADMITS they are biased shills for Trump.
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> Off the air, Fox News stars blasted
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> the election fraud claims they peddled
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> FEBRUARY 16, 2023
> >>>>>>>>>>> >>
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-
> >>>> false-
> >>>>>>>> clai
> >>>>>>>>>>> >> ms- trump-election-2020
> >>>>>>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>>>>> > So?
> >>>>>>>>>>> >
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Fox lies for Trump.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> They admit they lie for Trump.
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Next?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> MSM and the white house has been lying about Joe for 3 years.
> >>>>>>>>>> Do
> >>>> you
> >>>>>>>>>> have a point to make?
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> They been saying tRump good, Biden bad.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Isn't it fun watching Fox News cringe
> >>>>>>>> while reporting on the latest job creation
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> US Unemployment Rate (I:USUR)
> >>>>>>> US Unemployment Rate is at 4.10%, compared to 4.00% last month
> >>>>>>> and
> >>>>>> 3.60%
> >>>>>>> last year.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Biden brought the Trump 6.4% rate
> >>>>>> down to 3.6% and you are complaining?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Average Yearly Inflation
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> We were talking about unemployment.
> >>>
> >>> Yea, and how many people have LEFT the job market under Biden and
> >>> are no longer even counted as unemployed?
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Huh??
> >>
> >>
> >> US job gains surge past expectations,
> >> wage growth quickens
> >> June 7, 2024
> >> https://tinyurl.com/yjt363vs
> >
> > and we are still below pre-covid job numbers, and many Americans
> > complain there aren't enough jobs.
>
>
> Wrong.
>
> 1) More Americans are working now
> than at any point in HISTORY.
>
>
> "In 2023, it was estimated that over
> 161 million Americans were in some
> form of employment, while 3.64 percent
> of the total workforce was unemployed."
>
>
> 2) The Biden unemployment rate is
> lower than at ANY point under Trump.
>
>
> "This was the lowest unemployment rate
> since the 1950s"
>
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/269959/employment-in-the-united-
> states/
>
>
> >
> > See.. if you lose 50% of your workers and then 10% get rehired.. while
> > jobs gain maybe surging during the hiring.. you still have a bunch of
> > people without a job, or any prospect for a job.
> >
> > https://www.stewart.com/en/insights/2022/media_18141f1586ffd1fd66c98a2c
> > 07f1396be88eacf26.jpeg
> >
> > We have recovered (mostly) to pre-pandemic job levels.. but look at
> > that job slope prior to Covid.. we are a LONG way from reaching were
> > we would have been. In other words.. no allowance made for the
> > increased number of people looking for work.... and that's not even
> > considering the number of illegal aliens now seeking jobs... or those
> > filled by peopling have to work 2 or even 3 jobs to make ends meet due
> > to inflation under Biden.
> >
> > In short.. so I can talk at your level.... there aren't enough jobs
> > that pay enough to support the current population at a pre-Covid
> > pre-inflation standards of living
>
>
> Even your own Fox News says
> there are more job openings than
> Americans can fill.
>
>
>
> US has a shortage of manufacturing
> workers
> April 4, 2024
> https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-has-shortage-manufacturing-
> workers-threatens-global-competitiveness
>
>
>
> Maine looks to migrant surge to
> remedy worker shortage
> January 19, 2024
> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maine-looks-migrant-surge-remedy-worker-
> shortage
>
>
>
> America's skilled worker shortage impacting
> construction, manufacturing industries
> August 28, 2023
> https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/americas-skilled-worker-shortage-
> impacting-construction-manufacturing-industries

In article <XnsB1AD814A8CDFE629555@185.151.15.190>, noemail@aol.com
says...
>
> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> news:669145e7$0$212405$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>
> > In article <g0g09jdstkdabf9jmfrirouffi8hn82f32@4ax.com>,
> > twang@the.noodle says...
> >>
> >> Scout wrote:
> >> > "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> >> > > "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> >> > > news:v6jl2r
> >> > >> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> > >>> Isn't it fun watching Fox News cringe
> >> > >>> while reporting on the latest job creation
> >> > >>
> >> > >> US Unemployment Rate (I:USUR)
> >> > >> US Unemployment Rate is at 4.10%, compared to 4.00% last month
> >> > >> and
> >> > > 3.60%
> >> > >> last year.
> >>
> >> Unemployment rates under 4.5% are unsustainably low, and
> >> are inflationary.
> >>
> >> > > Biden brought the Trump 6.4% rate
> >> > > down to 3.6% and you are complaining?
> >> >
> >> > Average Yearly Inflation Rate by President
> >> > An average of the year-over-year inflation rate for all months of
> >> > each presidential term.
> >> > Trump 2017 - 2021 1.9%
> >> > Biden 2021 - 5.7%
> >> >
> >> > https://www.investopedia.com/us-inflation-rate-by-president-8546447
> >>
> >> The post-covid inflation was caused mainly by Trump
> >> deficit spending. Trump ran up the national debt more
> >> than in any other term in history.
> >>
> >> 1. What did Bidin do that caused inflation?
> >> 2. What did Trump do that reduced inflation?
> >>
> >> Answers: 1. nothing, and 2. only this: Trump appointed
> >> Powell as Fed chairman (then quickly started attacking
> >> him). Powell hiked interest rates around 5% in response
> >> to inflation. In normal times this would have caused a
> >> recession. It didn't... no rate cuts yet, and the
> >> economy is roaring. Bidenomics, right?
> >>
> >> You must not know that the CPI inflation numbers for June
> >> came out today. Prices went *down* last month by 0.1%,
> >> which is an annual rate of -1.2%. That's *negative*
> >> inflation. Core inflation (excluding food & energy) went
> >> up 0.2%, or about +2.4% annually.
> >>
> >> Now tell us who gets the credit for that.
> >>
> >> > Yea, I am complaining that Biden has an inflation rate 300% higher
> >> > than Trump's so far.
> >>
> >> That's a gift from Trump, not Biden.
> >
> > Yet all the shit started when Joe took office.
>
>
>
> You mean like Covid? WHo was president
> during that?

Stupid argument, try again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrcM_wbeknY

In article <XnsB1AD8B246B10B629555@185.151.15.190>, noemail@aol.com
says...
>
> C_V <c_v@invalid.net> wrote in news:v6rqag$34kb9$7@dont-email.me:
>
> > On 7/12/2024 11:47 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> >>> Yet all the shit started when Joe took office.
> >>
> >>
> >> You mean like Covid? WHo was president
> >> during that?
> >
> > No...who was the President who CREATED that?
> >
> > Obammy.
> >
>
> Even Trumpers don't claim that.............

Have you talked to all of them?

Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
news:66914623$0$212419$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

> In article <51i09j1pt4crst3shqs0b19rm73hu29495@4ax.com>,
> twang@the.noodle says...
>>
>> Scout wrote:
>>
>> > Further let's dig a bit deeper into the job market and see what's
>> > really going on.
>> >
>> > The Biden administration has turned the U.S. labor market into a
>> > temporary employment agency for foreigners, leaving American
>> > workers behind, and the administration's own data prove it. Yet
>> > instead of acknowledging this failure, the White house is taking
>> > victory laps on a few cherry-picked numbers.
>> >
>> > The May job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed
>> > a headline number of 272,000 payrolls added, and cheerleaders for
>> > the Biden
>>
>> <...>
>>
>> > https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/the-job-market-lo
>> > oks-good-only-if-you-ignore-whats-really-going
>>
>> Seriously?!? You're getting your news from the Heritage
>> Foundation? No wonder you are so confused.
>>
>> I'm sorry you are having so much trouble finding a job.
>> Don't give up.
>
> Who are you to determine which sites are real?
>

Well, he's not you for one.

Vincent Maycock <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in
news:o7k29jlpfignpuqceqqhrhl0jd0c8l21hk@4ax.com:

> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:44:48 -0000 (UTC), Baxter
> <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
>
>>Vincent Maycock <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in
>>news:nqa19jtt7jpo1e9fphpti76r84nclhk9ar@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:22:58 -0700, "Andrew"
>>> <andrew.321.remov@usa.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote in message
>>>>news:3hr09jhr1nob645n6c0qv68fmi915e42k2@4ax.com...
>>>>> "Andrew" wrote:
>>>>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really
>>>>>>> powerful; so we don't necessarily have to even mention the idea
>>>>>>> of omnipotence when investigating all the suffering around us and
>>>>>>> asking why God would allow it, if he existed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The suffering, sorrow, pain and death in this realm are all
>>>>>>temporary.
>>>>>
>>>>> What are they doing here at all, temporary or not?
>>>>
>>>>You should know by now. And if you don't,
>>>>it indicates you probably don't want to know.
>>>
>>> The standard Christian explanation is that suffering results
>>> necessarily from our freedom to choose. So we bring suffering on
>>> ourselves when we make wrong choices instead of following God.
>>>
>>> The problem with this is that some suffering isn't our fault, so the
>>> standard explanation fails to explain that kind of commonplace
>>> suffering.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Actually, Adam and Eve sinned so now EVERYBODY forever and ever has to
>>suffer.
>
> And why should we have to suffer for something *they* did?
>

Read your Bible. But do note that atheists reject that crap.

"P. Coonan" <nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in news:XnsB1AD7D202127002CE8@
0.0.0.1:

> On 12 Jul 2024, Baxter <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> posted some
> news:v6rfgv$32fue$3@dont-email.me:
>
>> Vincent Maycock <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:nqa19jtt7jpo1e9fphpti76r84nclhk9ar@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:22:58 -0700, "Andrew"
>>> <andrew.321.remov@usa.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote in message
>>>>news:3hr09jhr1nob645n6c0qv68fmi915e42k2@4ax.com...
>>>>> "Andrew" wrote:
>>>>>>"Vincent Maycock" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really
>>>>>>> powerful; so we don't necessarily have to even mention the idea
>>>>>>> of omnipotence when investigating all the suffering around us and
>>>>>>> asking why God would allow it, if he existed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The suffering, sorrow, pain and death in this realm are all
>>>>>>temporary.
>>>>>
>>>>> What are they doing here at all, temporary or not?
>>>>
>>>>You should know by now. And if you don't,
>>>>it indicates you probably don't want to know.
>>>
>>> The standard Christian explanation is that suffering results
>>> necessarily from our freedom to choose. So we bring suffering on
>>> ourselves when we make wrong choices instead of following God.
>>>
>>> The problem with this is that some suffering isn't our fault, so the
>>> standard explanation fails to explain that kind of commonplace
>>> suffering.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Actually, Adam and Eve sinned so now EVERYBODY forever and ever has to
>> suffer.
>
> You should try reading the Bible in the outhouse whilst using the pages
> to wipe your butt.
>
> "Galatians 1:4: The Lord Jesus Christ is the One "who gave Himself for
> our sins..."
>

You haven't checked with your local Evangelical church have you? "All
have sinned and come short of the glory of god".

In article <v6s6h4$36ppu$1@dont-email.me>, bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com
says...
>
> Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in
> news:66914623$0$212419$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:
>
> > In article <51i09j1pt4crst3shqs0b19rm73hu29495@4ax.com>,
> > twang@the.noodle says...
> >>
> >> Scout wrote:
> >>
> >> > Further let's dig a bit deeper into the job market and see what's
> >> > really going on.
> >> >
> >> > The Biden administration has turned the U.S. labor market into a
> >> > temporary employment agency for foreigners, leaving American
> >> > workers behind, and the administration's own data prove it. Yet
> >> > instead of acknowledging this failure, the White house is taking
> >> > victory laps on a few cherry-picked numbers.
> >> >
> >> > The May job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed
> >> > a headline number of 272,000 payrolls added, and cheerleaders for
> >> > the Biden
> >>
> >> <...>
> >>
> >> > https://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/commentary/the-job-market-lo
> >> > oks-good-only-if-you-ignore-whats-really-going
> >>
> >> Seriously?!? You're getting your news from the Heritage
> >> Foundation? No wonder you are so confused.
> >>
> >> I'm sorry you are having so much trouble finding a job.
> >> Don't give up.
> >
> > Who are you to determine which sites are real?
> >
>
> Well, he's not you for one.

That made no sense at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfgr50e4N8

On 13/07/2024 1:28 am, Scout wrote:
>
>
> "Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:q0709j5rrn8aj7t2d2s44stoo8p2pjj7b0@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:58 -0400, "Scout"
>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:rq109jtkr3flolmv3n7luc2cugdmfc3vt6@4ax.com...
>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:13:14 -0400, "Scout"
>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:h28u8j98e8hm2gq7c61djiqbdeqvb0mbs9@4ax.com...
>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:08:56 -0400, "Scout"
>>>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Seems like it. It's just a different faith.. I mean they even
>>>>>>> have their
>>>>>>> own
>>>>>>> churches. So either they are lying about their lack of faith or
>>>>>>> they are
>>>>>>> committing tax evasion and should go to jail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Even the hardened Kevrob atheist admitted he leaves the door
>>>>>>>> ever so
>>>>>>>> slightly open, which was honest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> True, you have to give him that. I tend to be more of an agnostic
>>>>>>> type
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> person. I would acknowledge the possibility of one or more entities
>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>> would be god like, but currently we have no true evidence of such
>>>>>>> being(s).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We don't currently have any true evidence of the existence of pink
>>>>>> garden unicorns.  Are you agnostic about their existence?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep. If you believe in them and it makes you happy, and doesn't harm
>>>>> anyone
>>>>> else. Go for it.
>>>>> After all, in all the Universe there well could be something we
>>>>> might call
>>>>> a
>>>>> pink garden unicorn.. or there could not.
>>>>>
>>>>> With up to 2 trillion galaxies in the universe that we know of or
>>>>> suspect,
>>>>> and each galaxy having about 100 Billion stars be galaxy, and if we
>>>>> assume
>>>>> 1.6 planets per star.. and then if we assume only 0.1% of those are
>>>>> habitable, and only 0.1% of those are inhabited.. That leaves a LOT of
>>>>> room
>>>>> for a pink garden unicorn to exist or not.
>>>>
>>>> What about the Keebler Elves?  Could *they* be lurking in a tree near
>>>> you?
>>>
>>> Lame evasion.
>>
>> How so?
>
> Because your line of questioning as already failed.
>
>>
>>>>>>> However, if our thoughts about the size of the Universe is anywhere
>>>>>>> close
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> being true, and the time that the Universe is thought to have
>>>>>>> existed..
>>>>>>> there could be entities that are as far above us, as we are above
>>>>>>> ants.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible, in your opinion, to rule out the existence of certain
>>>>>> *types* of gods?
>>>>>
>>>>> Depends on what type you're talking about.
>>>>>
>>>>>>  For example we know there can be no omnipotent omni-
>>>>>> benevolent god of the Christian sort out there
>>>>>
>>>>> Depends are you talking true omnipotence or something so far in
>>>>> advance of
>>>>> our civilization at the point of contact to appear so?
>>>>
>>>> Either one.
>>>
>>> Then I would put it that a civilization advanced enough to easily travel
>>> between the stars would appear damn near omnipotent to the people
>>> 2000 years
>>> ago.
>>
>> True.  What's your point?
>
> That you just agreed with me, thus establishing my point made that you
> can't possibly know what you asserted you did above.
>
>
>>>>> Further, from my readings God is not omni-benevolent, in fact in
>>>>> some ways
>>>>> God seems quite selfish, particularly when it comes worship.
>>>>> See Exodus 20:3-5/6 depending on which version you use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course that is somewhat contradicted by claims there are no
>>>>> other Gods
>>>>> while at the same time declaring there shall be no Gods before him.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, yea, there is a lot of wiggle room there. I certainly know of
>>>>> no claim
>>>>> of omnipotence or omni-benevolence from the Biblical God.
>>>>> I mean he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for a rather petty reason by
>>>>> a few
>>>>> of
>>>>> the people who lived there. Hardly seems omni-benevolent to me.
>>>>> I mean consider endless eternal damnation for limited and very finite
>>>>> offenses...  Does that sound like being omni-benevolent?
>>>>> Yes, the Bible is full of such contradictions within itself and within
>>>>> religions teachings of it.
>>>>> Now perhaps in God's view his is both.. but from ours, not so much.
>>>>
>>>> Note:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zf626yc/revision/1
>>>>
>>>> So you're saying if the Christian god exists, he must be evil?
>>>
>>> Would depend on your point of view, wouldn't it?
>>
>> What would prevent God from sharing this rather important information
>> with us about human suffering from his point of view?
>
> Lack of understanding? Knowledge you would never understand it at your
> age of development.
>
> I mean do you explain to a 9 month old baby why you are going to stab
> them with a sharp object, or do you do so because you know it's for the
> good of the baby?
>
> I mean you could try to explain it.. but realizing it's futile to do so,
> who would bother?
>
>
>>> Even benevolence can seem like utter cruelty to the ill informed and
>>> visa
>>> verse.
>>
>> So is this the "best of all possible worlds," in your view?
>
> Hardly, but it could be better than it might have been otherwise.. See
> above about the baby receiving a shot.
>
>
>>>>  I
>>>> wouldn't quarrel with that -- but since Christians are generally
>>>> unwilling to agree with a statement like that, I generally phrase it
>>>> as "the Christian god does not exist."
>>>
>>> Well, first we would have to establish exactly what the term
>>> "Christian god"
>>> means and exactly how that is supported.  In a discussion like that
>>> precise
>>> and specific meaning would need to be determined and supported. Not just
>>> from the view of the people saying it but also what they can support as
>>> being directly referenced. I mean it's nice to say God is omnipotent,
>>> but
>>> did God ever state that and to what if any limits, either inherent or
>>> self
>>> imposed.
>>
>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really powerful;
>
> Agreed and given the civilization at the time, that wouldn't be that
> hard to do. Heck we could probably do at least some of that today if we
> wanted to.
>
>> so
>> we don't necessarily have to even  mention the idea of omnipotence
>
> Well since we are the ones that asserted omnipotence... it would be our
> error.
>
>> when investigating all the suffering around us and asking why God
>> would allow it, if he existed.
>
> Reference the baby above. Do you crawl on your hands and knees because
> otherwise you might have to suffer learning to walk?
> Do you refuse to swim because you might suffer some learning how to do so?
>
> Nope, if you had your way, we could neither feed ourselves, move
> ourselves or even care for ourselves.. the "benevolent god" would have
> to care and provide for us every moment of every day, and prevent us
> from doing or seeking anything else.
>
> No, suffering is sometimes necessary to growth. To suggest none should
> exist is to deny growth, change, advancement.... which hardly sounds
> like something a benevolent God would do.
>
> Really? You need to try to think these things through for yourself.. as
> it is you're just looking like a fool.

On 13/07/2024 3:41 am, Mitchell Holman wrote:
> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in news:v6rhmu
> $332su$6@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>>
>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:XnsB1ACD302F7884629555@185.151.15.190...
>>> In the Name of Jesus <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in
>>> news:v6pr59$2knpf$4@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 12/07/2024 8:43 am, Baxter wrote:
>>>>> In the Name of Jesus <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:v6pi30 $2knpg$1@dont-email.me:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/07/2024 3:37 am, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Huh?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What I posted above was satire.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Bible is just contradictory
>>>>>>> and nonsensical gobbledy-gook invented
>>>>>>> by illiterate goat herders to explain
>>>>>>> what they didn't know.
>>>>
>>>> In the Name of Jesus wrote:
>>>>>> You don't get it, Mitchell.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You use the bible (e.g., your nonsensical gobbledy-gook) as your
>>>>>> argument and reference for your truth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are the greatest bible believing, non-bible believing, atheist
> I
>>>>>> know. :-).
>>>>
>>>> Baxter wrote:
>>>>> Michaelmclean, what YOU don't get is he's using YOUR "inerrant"
>>>>> source against you.
>>>>
>>>> I know what he is up to, Baxter; I've known Mitchell for years.
>>>>
>>>> But you haven't understood what was said.
>>>>
>>>> I know, you think you understand everything about me (join the club),
>>>> but you don't.
>>>>
>>>> You can't use what you call a fallacy as the argument of truth.
>>>
>>>
>>> Truth isn't the issue when the
>>> Bible clearly contradicts itself. The
>>> fact you cannot explain the contradictions
>>> is your problem, not mine.
>>
>> The explanation seems easy enough to me... it was written by humans.
>>
>> After all, you can have 20 people witness the same event.. and each
> will
>> recall it slightly differently, even contradict each other.
>> Is the flaw in what occurred.. or the witnesses?
>>
>> All you've shown is that the humans who wrote the Bible were human.
>
>
>
> Never said otherwise.........

Then your house of cards collapses. Why? Because you are railing about
the flawed state of man while excluding your own flawed state.

Therefore, all your arguments are based on "flawedness" and are
essentially pointless, purposeless, and hopeless. Unless you assert that
"flawedness" can be a foundation?

That's atheism, but that is not what we are about as human beings.

Isn't it about time you actually started to think about what it is to be
who we are, Mitchell?

In the Name of Jesus wrote:
> Sin is whoredom.

Mitchell Holman wrote:
> You make that sound like a negative.

Explain to me why you see whoredom as a positive.

In the Name of Jesus

--
God is God in all His Being. All the glory is His, for He is all glory.

Jesus is the everlasting Father, Jesus is God, Jesus is the Lord. John
10:30  I and Father are one. If you can't see that the Lord Jesus is the
everlasting Father you are not born again and can't see the Kingdom of God.

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
YET sinners, Christ died for us.

Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

Psalms 53:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt
are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that
hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

"To seek your own will is to seek your own glory."

"If God is not first in everything He is not first in anything."

"What makes the bible the truth? The resonance (voice, the Person) of
God. When you find Him you have found the author."

"All men were born sinners. Why? Because all men were born not loving
God with all their heart, soul, and mind. An abomination. Therefore,
sin is not what you do; it is what you are."

"Compromise will condemn you."

"There are no sinners in Christ Jesus."

"My sons are born of Me. In them is no darkness at all."

"You can't learn righteousness. Haven't you had enough time already to
know that?"

"The way of truth is the testimony of life."

"I merely speak the truth, what is revealed to me, and the cards fall
where God intends."

"Nothing that is produced is produced without first being faith."

"You can only find proof of God through faith because that is how we all
live, by faith."

"It is not what you do that matters, it is how you treat Me."

"Keep going forward. Forget about the past. Lift up your head, look
ahead."

"You cannot be free and free indeed with guilt in your heart."

"Priority is everything."

"The truth doesn't need evidence, it is evidence."

"There is no greater possession a man has than his own will, to squander
it or to place it where it truly belongs."

"An atheist is a fool who thinks truth is found in living a lie."

"Saying "prove it" [as a foundation] is merely an ignorant straw man, to
an ignorant straw man."

"Wait, rest, be still, and know."

"No man can wash his own hands!!!"

"I find this in the Christianity religions: 'Nobody's perfect' they say,
and they use that as an excuse not to do what is perfect."

The Atheist: "They don't believe and put their faith in a Creator (the
obvious). So no evidence and proof is to be found!!"

"The world is the way it is because God can't compromise who He is."

"Man is not the centre of being."

"Man is incompatible with the natural world because of his sinful nature."

"And then the Lord said, "I see everything."

"Man has no greater idol than his own will."

"Where is God hiding? He isn't."

"If you don't keep all the scriptures, you can't keep any of them."

"You can't prove anything because everything depends on a person's
willingness to believe."

"Atheists are ultimately trying to be pointlessness, meaninglessness,
and purposelessness in their point, meaning, and purpose."

"The last day of creation will be the last day of time. God is always
full of hope."

"The veil of the temple was rent in twain, not to have a book pass
through it so that a sinner could play God."

"A phylactery does not a heart for God make. Not back then, and not today."

"No one in heaven is better (or higher) than what makes it heaven. Such
is the love of God."

"The definition of an atheist: A man full of bluster and bullshit
pretending he is the meaning of life."

"Free will is not power; it is the choice that I allow; that choice is
still according to my power," says the Lord.

What does a fool do? A fool looks for a "nothing" in a "something" in
order to explain the existence of existence.

"Unless you do all because He is who He is, all your religion is in vain."

"Every man is subject to God; He judges every man, and He is reality.
 What a gift in a fallen world!"

"Love MUST be a choice or it is nothing but a law!"

"Why were all men born sinners? So that God could reveal Himself, so
that we would behold the glory of God, and that we should bring forth
the glory of God"

"God does not and will not arbitrate for any man to love Him! If God
isn't everything to you, He is nothing to you where the rubber meets the
road."

"It is the unforgivable sin not to love God with all your heart, soul,
and mind. What do you have that is lasting? It is not so much being
punished; it is what you are left with."

"Love isn't worth anything without first a free will choice for God to
birth it in a man."

"The point of salvation: desperation. Anything less than that is
self-righteousness."

"Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
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> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in news:v6rhmu
> $332su$6@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>>
>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:XnsB1ACD302F7884629555@185.151.15.190...
>>> In the Name of Jesus <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in
>>> news:v6pr59$2knpf$4@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 12/07/2024 8:43 am, Baxter wrote:
>>>>> In the Name of Jesus <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:v6pi30 $2knpg$1@dont-email.me:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/07/2024 3:37 am, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Huh?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What I posted above was satire.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Bible is just contradictory
>>>>>>> and nonsensical gobbledy-gook invented
>>>>>>> by illiterate goat herders to explain
>>>>>>> what they didn't know.
>>>>
>>>> In the Name of Jesus wrote:
>>>>>> You don't get it, Mitchell.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You use the bible (e.g., your nonsensical gobbledy-gook) as your
>>>>>> argument and reference for your truth.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are the greatest bible believing, non-bible believing, atheist
> I
>>>>>> know. :-).
>>>>
>>>> Baxter wrote:
>>>>> Michaelmclean, what YOU don't get is he's using YOUR "inerrant"
>>>>> source against you.
>>>>
>>>> I know what he is up to, Baxter; I've known Mitchell for years.
>>>>
>>>> But you haven't understood what was said.
>>>>
>>>> I know, you think you understand everything about me (join the club),
>>>> but you don't.
>>>>
>>>> You can't use what you call a fallacy as the argument of truth.
>>>
>>>
>>> Truth isn't the issue when the
>>> Bible clearly contradicts itself. The
>>> fact you cannot explain the contradictions
>>> is your problem, not mine.
>>
>> The explanation seems easy enough to me... it was written by humans.
>>
>> After all, you can have 20 people witness the same event.. and each
> will
>> recall it slightly differently, even contradict each other.
>> Is the flaw in what occurred.. or the witnesses?
>>
>> All you've shown is that the humans who wrote the Bible were human.
>
>
>
> Never said otherwise.........

And yet you demand Godlike perfection.

"Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
news:XnsB1AD8AF1820DC629555@185.151.15.190...
> C_V <c_v@invalid.net> wrote in news:v6rpum$34kb9$2@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 7/12/2024 11:41 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>> All you've shown is that the humans who wrote the Bible were human.
>>>
>>>
>>> Never said otherwise.
>>
>> Yet you regularly use it to demonize and decry.
>
>
> If "Biblidal Truth" (flat earth,
> geocentrism, Ye Floode) is in fact a
> lie whose fault is that?

The idiots that read what isn't there.

"Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
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> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
> news:v6rhmv$332su$7@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>>
>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:XnsB1ACD38BC1AB7629555@185.151.15.190...
>>> In the Name of Jesus <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in
>>> news:v6pi30 $2knpg$1@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 12/07/2024 3:37 am, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>> news:v6onj4
>>>>> $2g188$8@dont-email.me:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:XnsB1AB7F2475B95629555@185.151.15.160...
>>>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:v6m78d$1v0jr$8@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>> news:XnsB1AA828AE711629555@185.151.15.190...
>>>>>>>>> "Scout" <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:v6jl2l $1ebn2$20@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "Mitchell Holman" <noemail@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>> news:XnsB1A9D7EAF3E86629555@185.151.15.190...
>>>>>>>>>>> Sam <samt@samt.invalid> wrote in news:lf3kckFcicnU1
>>>>>>>>> @mid.individual.net:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 11:37:20 +1000, In the Name of Jesus
>>>>>>>>>>>> <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sure, if we all walked in truth.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the Name of Jesus
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> LOL! That is quite the babbling signature you have. It seems
>>>>>>>>>>>> to say, "Hate people that do not believe as I do!"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> That IS what the Bible requires..............
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Death to Followers of Other Religions
>>>>>>>>>>> (Exodus 22:19)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Kill Nonbelievers
>>>>>>>>>>> (2 Chronicles 15:12-13)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
>>>>>>>>>>> (Deuteronomy 13:13-19)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Kill Followers of Other Religions.
>>>>>>>>>>> (Deuteronomy 13:7-12)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You mean the bible written by PEOPLE?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "God's Holy Word"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Divinely Inspired"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Holy Writ"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So written by people.. possibly even delusional people, and
>>>>>>>> that's suppose to be accepted blindly and without question?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What about when the Bible contradicts itself.. how are we
>>>>>>>> suppose
>>> to
>>>>>>>> take that if we can't accept that the authors are flawed human
>>> beings
>>>>>>>> and thus the Bible is imperfect?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Take that up with Pastor Hartung, he
>>>>>>> runs away every time I ask him these sorts
>>>>>>> of questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm taking it up with YOU.. you're the one claiming the Bible has
>>>>>> to
>>> be
>>>>>> blindly obeyed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Huh?
>>>>>
>>>>> What I posted above was satire.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Bible is just contradictory
>>>>> and nonsensical gobbledy-gook invented
>>>>> by illiterate goat herders to explain
>>>>> what they didn't know.
>>>>
>>>> You don't get it, Mitchell.
>>>>
>>>> You use the bible (e.g., your nonsensical gobbledy-gook) as your
>>>> argument and reference for your truth.
>>>>
>>>> You are the greatest bible believing, non-bible believing, atheist I
>>>> know. :-).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The first step toward atheism
>>> is actually READING the Bible.
>>
>> Ok, I'll bite.. How does reading the bible establish that Gods do not,
>> can not, and have never existed....
>>
>> I mean I can see where you might have doubts, and become agnostic..
>> but to flip to the total denial seems unfounded.... After all, what
>> would an ant make of us? What makes you think an intelligence as much
>> above us as we are above an ant simply could not exist?
>>
>> So let me try your own argument. Prove that God doesn't exist.
>
>
> The demand for proof of a negative:
> always the sign of a failed argument.

If you cant prove God doesn't exist, then God could exist without your
knowledge.

I mean you are the one claiming that there is no possibility of a Godlike
being.... So where is your proof?

>> I mean as an atheist you must have proof for your convictions or by
>> what seems to be your standards you're wrong.
>>
>> Which, BTW is why I'm an agnostic.. I realize that nether I nor even
>> the entire human race have the answers to everything.
>>
>>
>>
>

"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fos29jd7698j1l9quut3kve4vfj2oviom8@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:28:47 -0400, "Scout"
> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:q0709j5rrn8aj7t2d2s44stoo8p2pjj7b0@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:58 -0400, "Scout"
>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:rq109jtkr3flolmv3n7luc2cugdmfc3vt6@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:13:14 -0400, "Scout"
>>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>"Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>news:h28u8j98e8hm2gq7c61djiqbdeqvb0mbs9@4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:08:56 -0400, "Scout"
>>>>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Seems like it. It's just a different faith.. I mean they even have
>>>>>>>>their
>>>>>>>>own
>>>>>>>>churches. So either they are lying about their lack of faith or they
>>>>>>>>are
>>>>>>>>committing tax evasion and should go to jail.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Even the hardened Kevrob atheist admitted he leaves the door ever
>>>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>>>> slightly open, which was honest.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>True, you have to give him that. I tend to be more of an agnostic
>>>>>>>>type
>>>>>>>>of
>>>>>>>>person. I would acknowledge the possibility of one or more entities
>>>>>>>>which
>>>>>>>>would be god like, but currently we have no true evidence of such
>>>>>>>>being(s).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We don't currently have any true evidence of the existence of pink
>>>>>>> garden unicorns. Are you agnostic about their existence?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yep. If you believe in them and it makes you happy, and doesn't harm
>>>>>>anyone
>>>>>>else. Go for it.
>>>>>>After all, in all the Universe there well could be something we might
>>>>>>call
>>>>>>a
>>>>>>pink garden unicorn.. or there could not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>With up to 2 trillion galaxies in the universe that we know of or
>>>>>>suspect,
>>>>>>and each galaxy having about 100 Billion stars be galaxy, and if we
>>>>>>assume
>>>>>>1.6 planets per star.. and then if we assume only 0.1% of those are
>>>>>>habitable, and only 0.1% of those are inhabited.. That leaves a LOT of
>>>>>>room
>>>>>>for a pink garden unicorn to exist or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> What about the Keebler Elves? Could *they* be lurking in a tree near
>>>>> you?
>>>>
>>>>Lame evasion.
>>>
>>> How so?
>>
>>Because your line of questioning as already failed.
>
> Okay. Let's just say for the sake of argument that that part of my
> questioning failed. How do you deal with my *next* question, about
> the Keebler Elves? Or was it just a lame evasion on your part?

Easy, you've already failed and there is no reason to continue this
stupidity deeper down the rabbit hole.

"In the Name of Jesus" <michaelmclean2021@outlook.com> wrote in message
news:v6sd9j$3764m$5@dont-email.me...
> On 13/07/2024 1:28 am, Scout wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:q0709j5rrn8aj7t2d2s44stoo8p2pjj7b0@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:18:58 -0400, "Scout"
>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:rq109jtkr3flolmv3n7luc2cugdmfc3vt6@4ax.com...
>>>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:13:14 -0400, "Scout"
>>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Vincent Maycock" <maycock@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:h28u8j98e8hm2gq7c61djiqbdeqvb0mbs9@4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:08:56 -0400, "Scout"
>>>>>>> <me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Seems like it. It's just a different faith.. I mean they even have
>>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>>> own
>>>>>>>> churches. So either they are lying about their lack of faith or
>>>>>>>> they are
>>>>>>>> committing tax evasion and should go to jail.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Even the hardened Kevrob atheist admitted he leaves the door ever
>>>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>>>> slightly open, which was honest.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> True, you have to give him that. I tend to be more of an agnostic
>>>>>>>> type
>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>> person. I would acknowledge the possibility of one or more entities
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> would be god like, but currently we have no true evidence of such
>>>>>>>> being(s).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We don't currently have any true evidence of the existence of pink
>>>>>>> garden unicorns. Are you agnostic about their existence?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep. If you believe in them and it makes you happy, and doesn't harm
>>>>>> anyone
>>>>>> else. Go for it.
>>>>>> After all, in all the Universe there well could be something we might
>>>>>> call
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> pink garden unicorn.. or there could not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With up to 2 trillion galaxies in the universe that we know of or
>>>>>> suspect,
>>>>>> and each galaxy having about 100 Billion stars be galaxy, and if we
>>>>>> assume
>>>>>> 1.6 planets per star.. and then if we assume only 0.1% of those are
>>>>>> habitable, and only 0.1% of those are inhabited.. That leaves a LOT
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> room
>>>>>> for a pink garden unicorn to exist or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> What about the Keebler Elves? Could *they* be lurking in a tree near
>>>>> you?
>>>>
>>>> Lame evasion.
>>>
>>> How so?
>>
>> Because your line of questioning as already failed.
>>
>>>
>>>>>>>> However, if our thoughts about the size of the Universe is anywhere
>>>>>>>> close
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> being true, and the time that the Universe is thought to have
>>>>>>>> existed..
>>>>>>>> there could be entities that are as far above us, as we are above
>>>>>>>> ants.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it possible, in your opinion, to rule out the existence of
>>>>>>> certain
>>>>>>> *types* of gods?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depends on what type you're talking about.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For example we know there can be no omnipotent omni-
>>>>>>> benevolent god of the Christian sort out there
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depends are you talking true omnipotence or something so far in
>>>>>> advance of
>>>>>> our civilization at the point of contact to appear so?
>>>>>
>>>>> Either one.
>>>>
>>>> Then I would put it that a civilization advanced enough to easily
>>>> travel
>>>> between the stars would appear damn near omnipotent to the people 2000
>>>> years
>>>> ago.
>>>
>>> True. What's your point?
>>
>> That you just agreed with me, thus establishing my point made that you
>> can't possibly know what you asserted you did above.
>>
>>
>>>>>> Further, from my readings God is not omni-benevolent, in fact in some
>>>>>> ways
>>>>>> God seems quite selfish, particularly when it comes worship.
>>>>>> See Exodus 20:3-5/6 depending on which version you use.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Of course that is somewhat contradicted by claims there are no other
>>>>>> Gods
>>>>>> while at the same time declaring there shall be no Gods before him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, yea, there is a lot of wiggle room there. I certainly know of no
>>>>>> claim
>>>>>> of omnipotence or omni-benevolence from the Biblical God.
>>>>>> I mean he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for a rather petty reason by a
>>>>>> few
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the people who lived there. Hardly seems omni-benevolent to me.
>>>>>> I mean consider endless eternal damnation for limited and very finite
>>>>>> offenses... Does that sound like being omni-benevolent?
>>>>>> Yes, the Bible is full of such contradictions within itself and
>>>>>> within
>>>>>> religions teachings of it.
>>>>>> Now perhaps in God's view his is both.. but from ours, not so much.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zf626yc/revision/1
>>>>>
>>>>> So you're saying if the Christian god exists, he must be evil?
>>>>
>>>> Would depend on your point of view, wouldn't it?
>>>
>>> What would prevent God from sharing this rather important information
>>> with us about human suffering from his point of view?
>>
>> Lack of understanding? Knowledge you would never understand it at your
>> age of development.
>>
>> I mean do you explain to a 9 month old baby why you are going to stab
>> them with a sharp object, or do you do so because you know it's for the
>> good of the baby?
>>
>> I mean you could try to explain it.. but realizing it's futile to do so,
>> who would bother?
>>
>>
>>>> Even benevolence can seem like utter cruelty to the ill informed and
>>>> visa
>>>> verse.
>>>
>>> So is this the "best of all possible worlds," in your view?
>>
>> Hardly, but it could be better than it might have been otherwise.. See
>> above about the baby receiving a shot.
>>
>>
>>>>> I
>>>>> wouldn't quarrel with that -- but since Christians are generally
>>>>> unwilling to agree with a statement like that, I generally phrase it
>>>>> as "the Christian god does not exist."
>>>>
>>>> Well, first we would have to establish exactly what the term "Christian
>>>> god"
>>>> means and exactly how that is supported. In a discussion like that
>>>> precise
>>>> and specific meaning would need to be determined and supported. Not
>>>> just
>>>> from the view of the people saying it but also what they can support as
>>>> being directly referenced. I mean it's nice to say God is omnipotent,
>>>> but
>>>> did God ever state that and to what if any limits, either inherent or
>>>> self
>>>> imposed.
>>>
>>> At the very least, the Bible portrays God as being really powerful;
>>
>> Agreed and given the civilization at the time, that wouldn't be that hard
>> to do. Heck we could probably do at least some of that today if we wanted
>> to.
>>
>>> so
>>> we don't necessarily have to even mention the idea of omnipotence
>>
>> Well since we are the ones that asserted omnipotence... it would be our
>> error.
>>
>>> when investigating all the suffering around us and asking why God
>>> would allow it, if he existed.
>>
>> Reference the baby above. Do you crawl on your hands and knees because
>> otherwise you might have to suffer learning to walk?
>> Do you refuse to swim because you might suffer some learning how to do
>> so?
>>
>> Nope, if you had your way, we could neither feed ourselves, move
>> ourselves or even care for ourselves.. the "benevolent god" would have to
>> care and provide for us every moment of every day, and prevent us from
>> doing or seeking anything else.
>>
>> No, suffering is sometimes necessary to growth. To suggest none should
>> exist is to deny growth, change, advancement.... which hardly sounds like
>> something a benevolent God would do.
>>
>> Really? You need to try to think these things through for yourself.. as
>> it is you're just looking like a fool.
>
> Vincent has a strong tendency to tweak, twist, and distort in order to try
> and shift what he believes into an edifice of fact, reality, and truth.
>
> There is plain old common sense in your replies. It is actually
> refreshing. Skeeter's replies are quite often similar.
>
> Personally, I am not bothered if a person is atheist, agnostic, or
> religious; in all cases every day common sense, logic, and truth is most
> welcome.