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	<title>Comments on: A prominent religious columnist explains why all religion is complete nonsense</title>
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		<title>By: JD Atwell</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-32669</link>
		<dc:creator>JD Atwell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Men Are Created Equal
Posted on August 1, 2011 by My-holy Our Creator (Myholy) created Adam out of dust of the ground and blew the Breath of Life into him and he became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) The Mother of Adam is the earth.

This means that your mother’s belly is made of dust of the ground in like manner so this also means that your Creator “MyHoly” formed you out of the dust of the ground in the same manner as Adam. And when you came out of your mother’s belly he blew the breath of life into you and you became a living soul just like Adam no difference at all.

 This means we all have the same warning in the form of a commandment that MyHoly gave to Adam; if we want to live don’t eat of the knowledge of a(good God and an evil devil) our Creator is one and we must worship him as one.

Become a child of the first resurrection and the second death has no power over you (to die in the flesh) stop eating of the knowledge of good and evil and you will live, eat of it and you will die. This is the error of our forefathers that we keep eating of the knowledge of a good God and an evil Devil thinking we can gain life by eating of the very tree that was told to us that if we take in its knowledge we would die.

JDAtwell -jda@jdatwell.net]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All Men Are Created Equal<br />
Posted on August 1, 2011 by My-holy Our Creator (Myholy) created Adam out of dust of the ground and blew the Breath of Life into him and he became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) The Mother of Adam is the earth.</p>
<p>This means that your mother’s belly is made of dust of the ground in like manner so this also means that your Creator “MyHoly” formed you out of the dust of the ground in the same manner as Adam. And when you came out of your mother’s belly he blew the breath of life into you and you became a living soul just like Adam no difference at all.</p>
<p> This means we all have the same warning in the form of a commandment that MyHoly gave to Adam; if we want to live don’t eat of the knowledge of a(good God and an evil devil) our Creator is one and we must worship him as one.</p>
<p>Become a child of the first resurrection and the second death has no power over you (to die in the flesh) stop eating of the knowledge of good and evil and you will live, eat of it and you will die. This is the error of our forefathers that we keep eating of the knowledge of a good God and an evil Devil thinking we can gain life by eating of the very tree that was told to us that if we take in its knowledge we would die.</p>
<p>JDAtwell <a href="mailto:-jda@jdatwell.net">-jda@jdatwell.net</a></p>
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		<title>By: Dimms</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dimms</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please answer these questions OR get rid of this emotive, intellectually vacuous video! 

It is a presentation of atheist propaganda and mythology. Surely &quot;every rational person can see that&quot;.

“THE ONUS IS ON YOU!”

This is the most emotive, unscientific, irrational monologue for atheism I’ve seen and heard in a while! Please answer the questions below intelligently and NOT EMOTIVELY. (I want rational answers, NOT atheist rhetoric and abuse). Preferably, I would like the person who created this video to respond. (I hope, within the worldview of secular democracy, I can make such requests). Quotes below are extracted from the above video.

“It will become clear to you that your belief in God is delusional”? Really? How clear? Watch this treatise (Naturalism can be just as “delusional” or a “leap of faith” within an evolutionary worldview): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjp9PrtPS8

“Harm us as a species”?, Hurting us as a species? How do you define “harm” on atheism?

“The hope is that you will start healing your delusion”? Are you a psychiatric health professional to make such diagnoses? Please demonstrate from credible extant psychiatric authority, that belief in god is pathology.

“With each healing we make our world a better place”? This sounds highly emotive and irrational. Please define a “better place”. Be careful here, you may sound religious! It is hard to define “a better place” within a worldview which asserts there is no moral absolutes! Or are you claiming there are “moral absolutes” in this statement? If so, on what basis? Please consider intelligently this debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1QjXe3IYQ

Here you are also making the claim of psychiatric pathology and diagnosis – on what authority? The DSM-4 perhaps? Please outline your authority to make such claims.

“A normal intelligent person”? – please define a “normal intelligent person”. On what cognitive framework do you make such claims of intelligence? I know of many &quot;normal&quot; and &quot;intelligent&quot; people who are geneticists, philosophers, scientists, artists etc who are also Christian theists.

“Radically devalues human life”? Really? Does Christian theology, really devalue human life in such absolute terms? (this assertion belies a bad reading of history and Christian theology) Moreover, what, on atheism, is the value of the human species? Please watch how Sam Harris inadequately tries to affirm the “value” of humans and human morality within atheism in this debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1QjXe3IYQ

“The belief in heaven is delusional”? – really? On what diagnostic criteria?

“The future of our species”? – this sounds highly teleological. How would you define, within your atheist mythology, what the ideal “future” of the species is, when atheistic evolution does not strictly allow for teleological/purpose claims? (Teleology is not built into the evolutionary, atheistic worldview). It is a mindless, and therefore purposeless process, isn&#039;t it?  

“Your irrationality”? Please define “irrationality” within an atheistic worldview. And, furthermore, what is my “moral duty” that I “ought to” behave within your framework of “rationality”. Your impositions and claims are starting to sound very “religious”!

“Help you recover from your delusion”? – Again, “delusion” implies a psychological pathology. Please display your credentials to make such diagnoses. Moreover, in what position do you situate yourself that you can “help” an individual suffering from this malady of “delusion”? Are you suffering from a “messiah complex”? Please save this highly evolved ape from its malady! Otherwise, I am damned! (hold on, damned to what!?…. oh yeah, the atheist’s arbitrary, non-binding judgements!)

“Every study shows prayer is a superstition”? – Which studies? Please reference them. Are they studies which critique a robust exegesis, exposition and hermeneutics of New Testament theology on prayer, OR are they used as an attack on a “straw man Christianity” grounded in the theology of the “Word-Faith / charismatic Movement”? It is easy to deconstruct your own construct of “the enemy”.

“Normal, healthy, human being”? – On your own worldview, what is a “normal, healthy human being”? – again, be careful, because your answer will imply a teleological projection, which a strict atheist worldview does not seem to allow.

“You can begin your healing journey now”? - Wow, you are starting to sound like an authoritative faith healer! – On what authority do you make this claim? What is the ideal state of health I OUGHT to attain, if indeed, I am sick. (according to your presentation I am “sick” as a Christian theist)

“A normal, healthy human being”? – again, a huge authoritative claim! Please define normal and healthy. Are you a health care professional? As a Christian theist, I am currently defined by accredited health care authorities as “normal” and “healthy”. Do you have some higher insight? On what authority do you make such claims of “health” and “normal” external of your atheist rhetoric? Be careful not to sound like a cult leader in your answer! You are starting to sound like the “ONE” who can save me!

Final question: This world view thesis of the “delusional bubble”, if true, should also be applied to the “atheist bubble of delusion”, since atheism is also a worldview construct (read and view some of the material by Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig on this theme). When are you going to be intellectually consistent and analyse your own “delusion” and create a similar video?

Thank you, genuinely, for the free discourse this site affords.

Please ANSWER these inquiries from a thinking theist. Since it is an atheist site in the affirmative, the ONUS IS ON YOU to answer these questions imbedded in the above text. After all, I am the person you are proselytising and I&#039;m still not INTELLECTUALLY convinced.

Regards]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please answer these questions OR get rid of this emotive, intellectually vacuous video! </p>
<p>It is a presentation of atheist propaganda and mythology. Surely &#8220;every rational person can see that&#8221;.</p>
<p>“THE ONUS IS ON YOU!”</p>
<p>This is the most emotive, unscientific, irrational monologue for atheism I’ve seen and heard in a while! Please answer the questions below intelligently and NOT EMOTIVELY. (I want rational answers, NOT atheist rhetoric and abuse). Preferably, I would like the person who created this video to respond. (I hope, within the worldview of secular democracy, I can make such requests). Quotes below are extracted from the above video.</p>
<p>“It will become clear to you that your belief in God is delusional”? Really? How clear? Watch this treatise (Naturalism can be just as “delusional” or a “leap of faith” within an evolutionary worldview): <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjp9PrtPS8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjp9PrtPS8</a></p>
<p>“Harm us as a species”?, Hurting us as a species? How do you define “harm” on atheism?</p>
<p>“The hope is that you will start healing your delusion”? Are you a psychiatric health professional to make such diagnoses? Please demonstrate from credible extant psychiatric authority, that belief in god is pathology.</p>
<p>“With each healing we make our world a better place”? This sounds highly emotive and irrational. Please define a “better place”. Be careful here, you may sound religious! It is hard to define “a better place” within a worldview which asserts there is no moral absolutes! Or are you claiming there are “moral absolutes” in this statement? If so, on what basis? Please consider intelligently this debate: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1QjXe3IYQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1QjXe3IYQ</a></p>
<p>Here you are also making the claim of psychiatric pathology and diagnosis – on what authority? The DSM-4 perhaps? Please outline your authority to make such claims.</p>
<p>“A normal intelligent person”? – please define a “normal intelligent person”. On what cognitive framework do you make such claims of intelligence? I know of many &#8220;normal&#8221; and &#8220;intelligent&#8221; people who are geneticists, philosophers, scientists, artists etc who are also Christian theists.</p>
<p>“Radically devalues human life”? Really? Does Christian theology, really devalue human life in such absolute terms? (this assertion belies a bad reading of history and Christian theology) Moreover, what, on atheism, is the value of the human species? Please watch how Sam Harris inadequately tries to affirm the “value” of humans and human morality within atheism in this debate: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1QjXe3IYQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1QjXe3IYQ</a></p>
<p>“The belief in heaven is delusional”? – really? On what diagnostic criteria?</p>
<p>“The future of our species”? – this sounds highly teleological. How would you define, within your atheist mythology, what the ideal “future” of the species is, when atheistic evolution does not strictly allow for teleological/purpose claims? (Teleology is not built into the evolutionary, atheistic worldview). It is a mindless, and therefore purposeless process, isn&#8217;t it?  </p>
<p>“Your irrationality”? Please define “irrationality” within an atheistic worldview. And, furthermore, what is my “moral duty” that I “ought to” behave within your framework of “rationality”. Your impositions and claims are starting to sound very “religious”!</p>
<p>“Help you recover from your delusion”? – Again, “delusion” implies a psychological pathology. Please display your credentials to make such diagnoses. Moreover, in what position do you situate yourself that you can “help” an individual suffering from this malady of “delusion”? Are you suffering from a “messiah complex”? Please save this highly evolved ape from its malady! Otherwise, I am damned! (hold on, damned to what!?…. oh yeah, the atheist’s arbitrary, non-binding judgements!)</p>
<p>“Every study shows prayer is a superstition”? – Which studies? Please reference them. Are they studies which critique a robust exegesis, exposition and hermeneutics of New Testament theology on prayer, OR are they used as an attack on a “straw man Christianity” grounded in the theology of the “Word-Faith / charismatic Movement”? It is easy to deconstruct your own construct of “the enemy”.</p>
<p>“Normal, healthy, human being”? – On your own worldview, what is a “normal, healthy human being”? – again, be careful, because your answer will imply a teleological projection, which a strict atheist worldview does not seem to allow.</p>
<p>“You can begin your healing journey now”? &#8211; Wow, you are starting to sound like an authoritative faith healer! – On what authority do you make this claim? What is the ideal state of health I OUGHT to attain, if indeed, I am sick. (according to your presentation I am “sick” as a Christian theist)</p>
<p>“A normal, healthy human being”? – again, a huge authoritative claim! Please define normal and healthy. Are you a health care professional? As a Christian theist, I am currently defined by accredited health care authorities as “normal” and “healthy”. Do you have some higher insight? On what authority do you make such claims of “health” and “normal” external of your atheist rhetoric? Be careful not to sound like a cult leader in your answer! You are starting to sound like the “ONE” who can save me!</p>
<p>Final question: This world view thesis of the “delusional bubble”, if true, should also be applied to the “atheist bubble of delusion”, since atheism is also a worldview construct (read and view some of the material by Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig on this theme). When are you going to be intellectually consistent and analyse your own “delusion” and create a similar video?</p>
<p>Thank you, genuinely, for the free discourse this site affords.</p>
<p>Please ANSWER these inquiries from a thinking theist. Since it is an atheist site in the affirmative, the ONUS IS ON YOU to answer these questions imbedded in the above text. After all, I am the person you are proselytising and I&#8217;m still not INTELLECTUALLY convinced.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
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		<title>By: Observer</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31801</link>
		<dc:creator>Observer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suh-  C&#039;mon.  Give it another shot.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suh-  C&#8217;mon.  Give it another shot.</p>
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		<title>By: Observer</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31800</link>
		<dc:creator>Observer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted- Did it take you all week to come up with the rubbish you are throwing around on the other threads?  Why not clear up the silliness you started on this thread first?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ted- Did it take you all week to come up with the rubbish you are throwing around on the other threads?  Why not clear up the silliness you started on this thread first?</p>
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		<title>By: Lou (DFW)</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31685</link>
		<dc:creator>Lou (DFW)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[18.Horatiio said …

“I’ve been waiting (I’ve been waiting) for someone new To make me feel alive, ah-ah”

And we&#039;ve been waiting for you to provide evidence of your imaginary god. But like the fraud you are, you NEVER do.

&quot;Suh has already made you look like a bigoted dalit(duh!) and made Lou like like a joke.&quot;

You do this for yourself every time you post such idiotic comments.

&quot;Don’t be surprised by Lou. He is not to much into reality.&quot;

But Hor is?! Ask him about his masturbatory fantasy &quot;Broadway In The Basement&quot; wherein he fantasizes about &quot;Buster&quot; dancing with Wiccans.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>18.Horatiio said …</p>
<p>“I’ve been waiting (I’ve been waiting) for someone new To make me feel alive, ah-ah”</p>
<p>And we&#8217;ve been waiting for you to provide evidence of your imaginary god. But like the fraud you are, you NEVER do.</p>
<p>&#8220;Suh has already made you look like a bigoted dalit(duh!) and made Lou like like a joke.&#8221;</p>
<p>You do this for yourself every time you post such idiotic comments.</p>
<p>&#8220;Don’t be surprised by Lou. He is not to much into reality.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Hor is?! Ask him about his masturbatory fantasy &#8220;Broadway In The Basement&#8221; wherein he fantasizes about &#8220;Buster&#8221; dancing with Wiccans.</p>
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		<title>By: Horatiio</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31678</link>
		<dc:creator>Horatiio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;I&#039;ve been waiting (I&#039;ve been waiting) for someone new To make me feel alive, ah-ah&quot;

Buster, (Ted?)

Yes, Foreigner, were those the lyrics you were &quot;waiting&quot; for Buster?

Suh has already made you look like a bigoted dalit(duh!) and made Lou like like a joke.  What more does he need to do to you Buster?

Suh.

Don&#039;t be surprised by Lou.  He is not to much into reality.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been waiting (I&#8217;ve been waiting) for someone new To make me feel alive, ah-ah&#8221;</p>
<p>Buster, (Ted?)</p>
<p>Yes, Foreigner, were those the lyrics you were &#8220;waiting&#8221; for Buster?</p>
<p>Suh has already made you look like a bigoted dalit(duh!) and made Lou like like a joke.  What more does he need to do to you Buster?</p>
<p>Suh.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be surprised by Lou.  He is not to much into reality.</p>
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		<title>By: Observer</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31677</link>
		<dc:creator>Observer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suh and Ted-  Still waiting...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suh and Ted-  Still waiting&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Lou (DFW)</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31673</link>
		<dc:creator>Lou (DFW)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[15.Asher said …

“metaphysics is nonsense”

&quot;That has got to be the silliest comment I have read on a blog.&quot;

Then apparently you haven&#039;t been reading this blog for very long.

&quot;Aesthetics and axiology, they are just nonsense too! You take Nietsche way too literally.&quot;

Wrong, it is my opinion, not one I got from Nietche. Metaphysics is mostly meaningless conjecture. For all intents and purposes, nothing of any relevant value has been learned through metaphysics. Metaphysics is a distraction from the true study of reality (nature).

BTW, would you agree or disagree that theology is a branch of metaphysics?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>15.Asher said …</p>
<p>“metaphysics is nonsense”</p>
<p>&#8220;That has got to be the silliest comment I have read on a blog.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then apparently you haven&#8217;t been reading this blog for very long.</p>
<p>&#8220;Aesthetics and axiology, they are just nonsense too! You take Nietsche way too literally.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wrong, it is my opinion, not one I got from Nietche. Metaphysics is mostly meaningless conjecture. For all intents and purposes, nothing of any relevant value has been learned through metaphysics. Metaphysics is a distraction from the true study of reality (nature).</p>
<p>BTW, would you agree or disagree that theology is a branch of metaphysics?</p>
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		<title>By: Asher</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31672</link>
		<dc:creator>Asher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;metaphysics is nonsense&quot;

That has got to be the silliest comment I have read on a blog.

Aesthetics and axiology, they are just nonsense too!  You take Nietsche way too literally.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;metaphysics is nonsense&#8221;</p>
<p>That has got to be the silliest comment I have read on a blog.</p>
<p>Aesthetics and axiology, they are just nonsense too!  You take Nietsche way too literally.</p>
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		<title>By: Observer</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=2025&#038;cpage=1#comment-31671</link>
		<dc:creator>Observer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C&#039;mon Suh and Ted. Defend the rubbish you write.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>C&#8217;mon Suh and Ted. Defend the rubbish you write.</p>
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