Vance Booker

If I was going to choose a religion, I’d pick the Sikhs.

These guys live by the standards their religion proclaims. They feed the hungry and clothe the needy of any or no religion. They have enclaves where food is given to everyone, no questions asked.

They literally live their lives the way their religion tells them to. They’ll give shelter to…[Read more]

Matthew Vines gave an incredible speech about this very subject. The link below is a transcript which is well worth a read.

Transcript

Simon, how was it condemned in  the OT?

The truth will set us free, so..set us free!

I thought it was the aliens who built the pyramids who blew up the Nordstream. So confusing sometimes. Gee, I just don’t know who to believe these days.

Indeed Jake! I have always respected Unseen, even when I disagree with things (and this is only from time to time) in a flabbergasted manner. Same with Enco (who I tend to disagree with a little more often) but I see as a contributor in good faith. I have felt the same way about some Christian apologists who have come by and debated with us in…[Read more]

Tell me, what happened to Unseen? He seems to have been replaced by a Republican doppleganger. Now he thinks that scientific debate happens on YouTube and Twitter (and Lord help us, Facebook!).

Dr. Bob. You are a snake of a troll. I am not going to help to talk trash about a member of this community. While I disagree with some of the things he has…[Read more]

It’s curious therefore why you insist on trying to cast billions of Catholics throughout history into some monolithic, personified straw man. Institutions and belief systems are not people.

No…we are referring to the claims that you have made about the Church Dr. Bob. Stop deflecting. You claimed that the Church eventually embraces social c…[Read more]

Okay Dr. Bob that is weird because Simon was convinced you were a professor in a University who we know to have passed away. Many members offered their condolences. So either you have claimed to be someone you are not, or Simon must have misunderstood something. If it is the first, that is a little deranged and you owe everyone an apology for…[Read more]

Wow, you guys have really degenerated quite a bit, eh?  And here I thought atheists were supposed to be rational sorts.

Groan. Nothing changes. Dr. Bob…perhaps you could clear up the whole story of you being a professor which passed away?

Enco, your radical free market libertarianism is as untenable as communism is. Just because the free market works in most markets doesn’t mean it makes sense everywhere. Just as “socialising” things like paving streets and criminal policing working doesn’t mean we should socialise everything (such as say, toy factories and supermarkets).

It is…[Read more]

Ideas are ideas and what you or I or anyone else says is beside the point. The point is what I said.

BTW, don’t interpret anything I post as an indication of what I believe one way or the other, sincerely or insincerely. Trusting what I say to be sincere is very beside the point. Whether what I say is a sincere expression, or not, has nothing t…

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Unseen if you want to play devils advocate then just transparently play devils advocate. Pretending you believe something outrageous will simply make me doubt the sincerity of what you say next.

Yikes. Very glad to hear it isn’t as serious as it could be and that you are on the mend!!!

It all just goes to show that someone trained in rigorous critical thinking methods can fall so god damn far from the wagon. I wonder, on what topics I pull such a blatant “unseen” as unseen is. Picking out things that are true out of context, selectively listening to the fraction of dissenters and blatantly missing the broader picture. I know…[Read more]