On 5/13/2016 2:15 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 5/13/2016 1:06 PM, Meanie wrote:
On 5/13/2016 12:41 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 5/13/2016 11:26 AM, Bod wrote:
On 13/05/2016 15:40, Muggles wrote:
On 5/13/2016 1:25 AM, Bod wrote:
On 13/05/2016 05:11, Muggles wrote:
On 5/12/2016 10:48 PM, wrote:

“Rather than hurling ad hom*inem attacks on Craig from their
bunkers,
it would be good to see these figures come forward to rationally
defend the atheism they publicly espouse.”[20]

YES! Good discussion often ends up with ad homs when it comes to
topics
like this.

If you check back in this discussion, you'll find the ad homs have
come
from the religious posters, like; Gunner Achs (or whatever his name
is).


How much of such responses do you attribute to the religious aspect
of a
poster vs. their personality and human nature?

I don't know why some people think that just because someone espouses
affiliation with a religion that it makes that person suddenly reject
their human nature?

Have you reminded the religious Muslim terrorists about their "human
nature"? Many Muslims who aren't terrorists even kill each other if
they happen to be the wrong flavour.
That includes many Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.


Again, human nature's need to control others. Their reasoning is only
secondary to their human nature.


Their reasoning stems from and is enhanced by a religious standpoint.

Likewise, their reasoning could be enhanced by a sore toe on any given
day. Religion isn't the cause.


The Crusaders
Thirty Years War
French Wars of Religion
First and Second Sudanese Civil War
The Holocaust
Jewish Diaspora
Branch Davidians
Heavens Gate

Above are just a small sample of religious acts and cults who's
existence was based on a religious nature. Is it human nature for people
to end their lives in hopes of an afterlife of paradise? Is it human
nature to start wars or follow those who start wars because their sect
was threatened? The majority of people do not have the notion of war or
killing them self as an individual. They never pondered the thought
until they've been urged by a leader, group or culture. The majority of
those groups are religiously led.

Approximately 17 million deaths have occurred in the name of religion
throughout centuries of wars.

You can repeat the same rhetoric all day long but the majority of people
would not act harshly without the urging by another especially when
promised of a spiritual reward. Extreme Muslims have been doing it for
decades.

I'm guessing your adamant standpoint is due to your religious beliefs
and proves the point how many within the Christian belief fail to admit
the obvious.