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greyseal
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Message 162 of 295 (525360)
09-23-2009 5:55 AM
Reply to: Message 147 by slevesque
09-16-2009 5:42 PM


Re: Methodological Naturalism
But to be back on topic, I really think the 'children camp' thing will become a dead-end, since atheists have equally started their own children camps. They even 'debaptized' kids of 9 years old.
Oh noes, atheists are doing the same thing that theists have been doing, but in reverse!!!!111oneoneoneeleventyone
er...well not quite.
The biblecamps are several weeks of intensive fire and brimstone fed to kids when they are away from their parents and at their most vulnerable - this is their reason d'etre, to "save" sinners from hellfire.
The atheist camps seem to be a lot less of the fire and brimstone because they don't believe in it. What can you do, threaten a kid with NOT going to hell? Oh my, deary deary me.
I do not believe any atheist camp has debaptized any children (proof please, and not just accusations from the pages of aig), nor do I believe that any atheist would want to do something like that - it goes against everything atheists stand for, which is self-exploration and choice. They're likely to hold up certain differing information and say "here's what I believe", but they won't be calling religious people "idiots" to children.
Even PZ had a catholic child on student exchange stay with him, and did nothing more egregious to her faith than not go into the church with her.
Of course, I'm one of those awful, evil agnostic/atheists so I'm liable to be lying through my teeth and have a debaptism mill set up in my underground sweatshop, amirite?

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greyseal
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Message 164 of 295 (525382)
09-23-2009 8:03 AM
Reply to: Message 163 by ochaye
09-23-2009 7:43 AM


Re: Methodological Naturalism
Can we see some detail about this, please?
Sure! Try:
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and there are several (although the whole video is gone). If you think this is the only one, then I'd have to go collect a whole lot more "evidence" that you could probably still call "circumstantial" and "not indicative".
Can I have even one forced debaptism video in return?
JW's baptism of the dead doesn't count.

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greyseal
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Message 189 of 295 (525633)
09-24-2009 2:01 AM
Reply to: Message 165 by ochaye
09-23-2009 8:32 AM


Re: Methodological Naturalism
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Thanks. I think. I couldn't stand it for long.
me either
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Now my question is, is that Christianity, or something else?
Well, they're talking about things in and from the christian mythos, it's within the christian code of ethics as far as I can see and they would say it was.
Me? I don't know - but I can't think of a clear reason why not other than "that sort of shit makes me sick".

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