In his response to SB, Lyle writes
I did not say a person without faith could not or does not understand The the transcendental concepts I spoke about. To the contrary the Bible says that God has written his law in everyone’s heart. However, if there was no deity to write those laws on humanity’s heart there would be no laws. In theology they call this natural law. The founding fathers believed in natural law and therefore could say that these truths are self evident. They were self evident because they were revealed by God to all men. That is all men. Unfortunately, the younger generation knows nothing about natural law and therefore finds the declaration and Constitution difficult to understand.
You sound like a civil person if you would like to continue a discussion I would be glad to do so. However, I am turning off the comments on my blog because of the language an the attitudes reflected by some of the new atheist which have responded to my blog. I have agreed to respond to a few, but I am not excited about it because most of their ideas are self assertions with no quotes from authorities In philosophy or science. They are an authority unto themselves. Such people no one can debate with nor take serious. if you would like to share send your blog.
Natural law is
a philosophy of law that is determined by nature, and so is universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature — both social and personal — and deduce binding rules of moral behavior from it.
It allows no room for the supernatural. It has nothing to do with gods. To claim natural law is given by god is a contradiction in terms. They are self-evident because they are derived from nature. A person feels pain, they don’t like it. They infer they shouldn’t inflict pain on others. No god is necessary. To posit a god is superfluous.
The world is a big place. It is bigger than the US of A. And anyone with an IQ greater than my shirt would know natural law was spoken of long before the American Declaration of Independence. I believe Thomas Aquinas wrote way before the founding of the US of A and he wrote on natural law as deriving from the nature of man. I think instead of Lyle saying the younger generation being clueless on natural, it is him that is clueless. And what have I to do with the declaration or constitution of the US. You have written a post about atheists and morality not American jurisprudence. These are not related topics.
It is true SB is very civil and polite. I try civility once in a while.
It is strange that a guy who is berating atheists is closing comments on his post because he doesn’t like what he is hearing. Stranger though is that only SB had commented by the time of writing this post. Unless of course he is referring to GC’s and my response.
And then he dismissed our responses by an appeal to authority! Our criticisms are not valid because we have not quoted a bible verse or a theologian! What nerve some believers have?
I make no apologies for being an authority unto myself. In the event you want me to quote an authority, just ask. I know they are not in short supply.
“…most of their ideas are self assertions with no quotes from authorities In philosophy or science.” Here’s a quote from an irrefutable authority, The Qur’an: 2:120: “Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you till you follow their religion. Say: “Verily, Islâmic Guidance is the only Guidance. And if you were to follow their desires after what you have received of Knowledge, then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.”]
Here’s another:9:29: “Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not Islam as the religion of truth among the people of the Scripture, until they pay the Jizyah [religious tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”
Once again, the christian is proven a liar, a deceiver, and a blind fool through the use of his own criteria for supporting an argument. ‘Nuff said. You can close the comments now, Mak. 😀
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I like the authority you quote. We should all be Muslims
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Here’s a quote from Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers and writers of our Constitution, on christianity:
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
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Thanks for this second authority. Now I can tell Lyle Jefferson doesn’t agree with him. Thomas Paine called the believers blasphemers
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I’ve dozens of quotes by Jefferson on christianity. He most definitely did NOT think the U.S. was or should be a “christian” nation. Here’s another quote of his:
“My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.”
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, August, 6, 1816
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I am waiting for Lyle and his authority
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Lyle has crawled under a rock at this point. The idjit. One more Jefferson quote I like: “And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.”
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
Sure as fuck doesn’t sound like ole Tom was promoting a christian nation.
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I believe T. Paine was one of the founding fathers who is almost forgotten to history. He said among other things
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Indeed. These guys were not about forming a Jesus state. Idjits like Lyle, who call for citations and research, need to do some actual research themselves. My detestation for the ugliness that is christianity and its oppressive, tyrannical, suppressive nature grows stronger every time I encounter a cowardly sandwich brain like Lyle. More and more I’m becoming an anti-theist. Thanks, Lyle.
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The believer believes that the bible is true and that settles it.
How can one be so clueless?
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Read this again, “The founding fathers believed in natural law and therefore could say that these truths are self evident. They were self evident because they were revealed by God to all men.” I could just as well say “Some clueless know-it-all decided a long time ago that there is a natural law and it is from the dog. Therefore I find it completely believeable.” It is an excercise in confirmation bias.
Then the ignorant appeal to authority. This one is a goner Mak. There is no rational debate here. The farce is strong with this one.
Turning off comments is a sure sign of a coward who fears his belief is challenged. If faith were really a virtue, one need not worry about it being challenged. In the same way a cat covers its shit in the box, the faithful flee from rational inquiry. They don’t know why they do it, it just seems the right thing to do.
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Why close comments when only person has responded and you admit he is civil?
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Running like a skittish dog when someone said “Boo!”
The faithful are comfortable with the things they have been led to believe. After the rationalizing is done, the CD is firmly entrenched, and their minds have become part of the Borg collective, they care not for any disagreement. The Borg line is “resistance is futile.” The lines of the faithful are many, “Jesus saves.” “God bless.” “You are going to hell.”
Little difference between the two really. Though you do hear of people that manage to break away from it. More power to them. The freedoms of accepting reality are many. One being we no longer, or simply need not, sacrifice our intellectual integrity for a con game.
There is a whole ‘nuther world out there outside of religious belief to discover. Many know not of its existence. Many others would rather stand there with their heads buried up their arses.
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I think it is easy to have heads buried where the sun never shines. No thinking required
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That’s it exactly. Just repeat the mantras. Repeat the misconceptions. Repeat the fallacies. Repeat the lies. Repeat the hiding behind closed comments when confronted.
Then pop up a week later spouting the same B.S. like none of that ever happened.
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And hope someone believes the shit
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Because one is a coward and can’t withstand any kind of evidence that shows his personal version of Christianity is wrong.
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then such a person should leave atheists alone. They have no balls
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Well said.
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Thanks man. probably has something to do with the company I keep 😉
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Got to be your virtual barman
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That barman is a great help. Food for thought is job #1 for a great barkeep. Serving the drinks is secondary.
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It’s always amusing when the apologist invents new meanings for things, structured just right to fit into their jaundiced worldview.
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for the apologist, words mean only what they want them to mean
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This is true
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Two christian apologists are standing in a timeless, space-less, immaterial, boundless something or other. One apologist looks at the other and says, “Hey, how is it I can see you and talk to you if we’re in a timeless, immaterial, space-less, boundless something or other?” The second apologist replies, “Because, according to how I’m currently interpreting certain vague Biblical passages, it says you can. I mean, like, duh, dude! Get with the apologetic’s program already, will ya!”
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Damn, you’ve nailed it!
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Thanks. I past my Apologectics 101 class with honors last year. It was taught by a 3/4 scale plaster model of WLC. No one but I noticed it wasn’t really alive.
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Haha
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Do we pay for admission?
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Awesome! One Internet for YOU! You can sell said Internet to fund the peaceful Jihad so beloved of our Islamic Warriors!
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$Hallelujah$
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Hahaha BJ. You have given him one internet to do whatever he will
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BTW, I just love how this Alan Scott person on your blog doesn’t get that you don’t really believe in The Owner Of All Infernal Names. These christian fellows are not the brightest of wits. I guess thaty’s why they attack your book and thesis without having read them or even remotely understanding what it is you’re doing. Idjits. 😀
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It does seem to be a hard notion for him to grasp. Another thing is they all seem to think we’re prosecuting their god, calling it evil. Ego Cocktail, anyone? 🙂
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Indeed. It’s SO much fun fucking with them like this. My hats off to you, my friend, for writing such a wonderful thesis. I’ve not gotten the book in the mail yet, but when I do, and I read it, I’ll let you know what I think. Just the hornets nest you’ve stirred up by writing a post on the fact you wrote the book makes me grin from ear to ear. 😀
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I still haven’t gotten my copy! People say it at least looks nice.
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The pic on Amazon looks great.
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Bad babies 🙂
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In the world of The Owner Of All Infernal Names, are there any other kind?
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Ah, here’s some Ken Ham news for you:
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That is SO awesome I got a chubby! Ham is pissed $ is spent on SETI! Oh, you can’t make shit up like this!
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I hope SETI picks up a signal soon and that it says, “We’re out here and we think Ken Ham is an asshole.”
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Hahaha. Ken already knows he is an asshole
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That doesn’t stop him from laughing all the way to the bank. Isn’t money the true religion of those who grab onto radical/fundamentalist forms of belief?
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Of course. He is doing well in that sector
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For Ham, if it is in the bible it is true and that settles it. If it is not in the bible it is false and you are going to hell.
Next?
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I am ready for the cocktail
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You remember the one who believed you were Muslim? Wit is what most of them lack
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Right. Foolish guys.
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But it IS a far better explanation for the Problem of Evil than any conventional Theodicy! Some of us WANT TO BELIVE.
BWAHAHAHAHHAA!
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$Amen$
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Good for you, my Nairobi brother! Great arguments and rebuttal (I hope that I spelled that correctly). It is apparent that the man likes to argue but entertains no dissenting views. Have a wonderful evening! Love and naked hugs! 🙂
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It doesn’t matter since butt is spelled correctly 🙂
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“To the contrary the Bible says that God has written his law in everyone’s heart. ”
The usual nonsense every theist claims. Alas, for Christians they have yet to show that their god exists, much less has done things like write what it wants in every human’s heart. Funny how even the Christians can’t agree on what that “law” is.
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We are waiting for these proofs
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