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Nothing like a Mark Twain quote to release frustrations and make it laughable: (though I would have liked him to include atheists along with religion and politics) In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from...

spin wrote:Though I'm not an atheist, here is my response: the notion of evil is reified nonsense—that shields people from closer access to reality—, while suffering in a physiological sense is a well-observed phenomenon.

You know that is an interesting response. Thank you Spin.

Never underestimate the ideological clout of your regular, ordinary neighborhood village atheist. At a local level an outspoken atheist often functions as a street philosopher, secular rabbi, and critical thinking evangelist rolled into one. Jesus myth theory tends to be a grassroots kind of thing ...

Have you ever put your hand on a pile of suffering? Or perhaps caught a photograph of evil in its natural habitat? References to Clinton aside, the ontological status of these concepts is a legitimate question. It appears that they are properties attributed to processes in living things (suffering)...

The question I ask, is to see what responses are given by atheist. I am not looking to refute the answers, only to observe the replies. The question is simple: How do we know that evil and suffering exists? Suffering has an objective definition. Suffering is physical or emotional pain. I can know i...

Thank you Peter. And its digestible! To Stephen, thank you for that note!

My studies are on a different plain and I have skimmed through some of the Josephus stuff so my knowledge is no where near interceding on an intelligent conversation on your other thread. And it's actually a few questions I have. The first "set of question". Did not Josephus change his las...

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The question I ask, is to see what responses are given by atheist. I am not looking to refute the answers, only to observe the replies. The question is simple: How do we know that evil and suffering exists?

stephan happy huller wrote:Crucify him! Crucify him!

Am I hearing the above set to the Musical: Jesus Christ Superstar?