Posted on 05/03/2015 5:00:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Shelley put it succinctly: ‘God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.’”
God is not a hypothesis.
Just like Abraham Lincoln is not a hypothesis. Lincoln is a historical figure. Hypotheses are for organizing and making sense of data. A person or event is not a hypothesis.
Many today and down through history have claimed to have directly experienced the divine, the supernatural. Those who have do not need a theory or hypothesis. They have observation. They have experience. Those who haven’t must decide whether these claims are credible.
Someone who is blind cannot verify the existence of color by observation. They can, however, choose to believe the testimony of those who can see.
Actually atheist just worship themselves.
I have a feeling some one do not like my comments and that is why threads are put up that I have no idea what they are talking about so I can not commit on them, oh well.
When someone has to write an essay as long as this one, to make a point, they don’t have a point to begin with.
This is nothing new.
This is a repeat of B Clinton’s 1992 campaign against the “Christian Right” which is why pretty much everyone on the left thought the Branch Davidians in Waco deserved what they got.
Sure is funny how the Clintons always luck out and have their followers prepped and ready to accept what is supposed to be an unplanned event.
Waco in 1993.
OKC bombing in 1995.
2010 attempted car bombing in NYC.
Sure is amazing how the left directed their hate for months at just the right people before each of these unplanned events.
Mathew 13
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Mathew 22
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
Hell is a big place, it would be a shame to have such a big place that was empty, let them fill it up.
Hey Jeffrey - why did Nature select HETEROsexual procreation for humans instead of the reprobate mutual masturbation that homosexual advocates pretend is sex?
No magic required.
FU and the transhumanist/postgenderist progressive jackwagon you oozed in on.
LOL — Cruz is driving the lunatics bananas.
I only read the first paragraph of this drivel, but that’s all you need. Usual Salon.com garbage.
It does look like liberal publications are putting out a disproportionate number of articles slamming Cruz. That’s kinda telling. They usually include that he has no chance of winning. Wonder how many keyboards they’ve shorted out with spittle?
Meanwhile, our left wing comrades the "indigenous pipples" are one with the universe and can change themselves into wolves.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3285485/posts
Why use Ted Cruz as the whipping boy unless you fear him the most and see his success as inevitable?
They're projecting......
They can't understand what we really want and they're showing us what they really want.
OY. BTTT
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Yes, that is what we are up against, and it will not go away. Salon is well funded by those that seek to re-make America.
Wow. The fear they have of Cruz is phenomenal; but to be expected.
I’ve just finished reading a couple of the dystopian fiction novels, The Hunger Games and Divergent and when I see where we’re going, it’s chilling.
A government bent on controlling people and it’s a few at the top who are the power hungry ones who want to control EVERYBODY’S life.
Ted Cruz Ping! Mr. Tayler, would you please learn how to make your point with fewer words?
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