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How to Debate an Atheist
PJ Media ^ | September 22, 2017 | Edward Watson

Posted on 09/23/2017 8:21:17 AM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan

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1 posted on 09/23/2017 8:21:17 AM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan
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To: Raymond Pamintuan
been around longer than most people think

Yes, I'd say so. 1000 BC David was saying, "The fool has said in his heart, 'there is no God'".

2 posted on 09/23/2017 8:25:42 AM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

Debating an Atheist is a total waste of time.


3 posted on 09/23/2017 8:30:22 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

There’s no need to debate an atheist, because they are of the lowest intellectual form. To be an atheist, one cannot acknowledge that “he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know”. He cannot even wrap his mind around this simple concept.


4 posted on 09/23/2017 8:31:22 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

Atheists have religious beliefs. Negative religious beliefs.

In the world of numbers, they are not zero. They are negative one. Christians are number one.

So when a STATE official stops a citizen from expressing his religious beliefs, for example, a valedictorian, they are supporting one side against the other. They are not being neutral.

Atheism is the official STATE religion in contradiction of the US Constitution.


5 posted on 09/23/2017 8:31:57 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

“I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
-————————Stephen F Roberts


6 posted on 09/23/2017 8:34:04 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

A very long article. And involved.

Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 09/23/2017 8:42:54 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

Atheists cheat. They have more “yeah-buts” than the pages in War and Peace.
For instance: The Bible says in at least 55 places that God would scatter Israel around the world for their disobedience, but would bring them back to their land. Against all odds, He made that happen in 1948, and even resurrected their once-dead language, Hebrew.
But the atheist, not believing in miracles, says, “those prophecies don’t mean what you say they mean; anyway, they were written after an earlier regathering had already happened.”
So atheists reject good evidence.
From my perspective, though, I think such evidence is strong enough to be considered a seed planted. Maybe it will germinate; but I will not hold my breath.


8 posted on 09/23/2017 8:45:51 AM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

From Dennis Prager “Believers in Gd have to explain His existence. Atheists have to explain everything else.” Love it.


9 posted on 09/23/2017 8:48:22 AM PDT by Yaelle (Socialism, faithfully implemented, delivers anguish and devastation. - President Trump)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan
There are actually two ways.

1) Put the burden on them. Force them to prove that God does NOT exist.

2) Demure to the argument. And then say that it doesn't matter, because belief in God -- Faith -- is not arguable. That I BELIEVE God exists doesn't depend on whether He does or not. That accomplishes the same thing as 1, but renders their argument irrelevant.

10 posted on 09/23/2017 8:48:30 AM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan
How to Debate an Atheist: PRAY BEFOREHAND.

Ask that you be a good Ambassador to God before him.

Ask that you present a love that he cannot refute because the Atheist sees love in you.

I believe this is how I went from being an Atheist to a Believer. Because peoplee were praying this and for my Salvation from the dead.

11 posted on 09/23/2017 8:57:17 AM PDT by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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Saving for later - thanks.


12 posted on 09/23/2017 9:00:31 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan
An atheist has to be able to provide a deliberative reason for why he exists at all. By definition he must be his own creator, yet can't explain:

1. how he did it

2. why he did it

3. why he can't duplicate in a controlled lab what he was supposed to have designed and created himself in an uncontrolled environment all powered by his will and random chance in the first place.

Atheists are merely arrogant cartoons of internally self-contradictory "intellect."

Fact is that in truth there is no such thing as a atheist. An honest atheist will have to admit that he merely worships himself. He together with his elevated sense of self-worth is his own little god.

And how small minded and and intellectually impoverished is that powerless little "god."

FReegards!

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13 posted on 09/23/2017 9:05:40 AM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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The believer in a moral God must account for one thing, unjust suffering, while the atheist must account for the existence of everything else. --attr GK Chesterson(?)
14 posted on 09/23/2017 9:06:03 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

why would you bother? Leave people to their own beliefs, and they will probably return the favor.


15 posted on 09/23/2017 9:10:32 AM PDT by ronniesgal (still winning (and a self satisfied Pr!ck, according to WMarshal))
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

Aetheist have faith... Faith in one day man will be able to explain how matter appeared from nothing or was here eternally...

Both defy the laws governing our universe...


16 posted on 09/23/2017 9:12:16 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

1Peter 3:15; there really isn’t a case for debating non-believers; most will out debate you and an observer won’t be able to tell the difference between a fool and not a fool...love them into the Kingdom. It’s God’s job to work on their heart, not mine.


17 posted on 09/23/2017 9:14:26 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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Than ask them to explain how the laws governing the physical world are so precise and unchanging... and why they are what they are...


18 posted on 09/23/2017 9:15:42 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

I beg to differ. I refuse to debate religion because I fear convincing someone to whom religion is a needed foundation. I have no fear of being an intellectual inferior to someone of religious beliefs, but I respect their rights to have those beliefs and expect them to respect my right not to. If they can’t respect another human being of differing beliefs, I feel sorry for them. But superior? Absurd.


19 posted on 09/23/2017 9:16:55 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

The real problem with atheism is that they have faith only in things they cannot feel is perfect. So their life is flawed and expected to be so.

rwood


20 posted on 09/23/2017 9:25:08 AM PDT by Redwood71
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