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@AgainstAtheismX in addition to Holy Scripture: DIDACHE by the Apostles CITY OF GOD by St. Augustine A HISTORY OF HERESIES AND THEIR REFUTATION by St Alphonsus Liguori

A metaphysical remark by a reader of mine: "Why is there something rather than nothing? Because with God, nothing is impossible."

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@darwintojesus Evidence settles questions of fact. The question 'how to interpret facts?' is not a fact. The question 'what counts as evidence?' is not a fact. Example: is it a fact that the cosmos exists. Does this count as evidence that God exists? Evidence plays no part, yes or no.

@UgoCannon There is one word wrong. Atheism in one sentence: "I don't accept the existence of gods after evidence is provided." There. Fixed.

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There is a parallel between Nazi, Commie ideologies and Christian teaching about the Fall of Man. Rosseau held that utopia consists of savages in cities, the freedom of primitive man combined with the luxury and power of civilization. There are likewise parallels with Nazi and Marxist ideology, as secularized ersatz religion. Marx did not propose abolishing factories when private property was abolished: he wanted to retain the prosperity of their output, but without the private property which, to him was the Original Sin. Likewise, the Nazi did not wish to return to the barbarism of pre-India Aryan tribal life, but to harness the nobility and strength of pagan lawlessness to the purity of their imagined racial utopia. Both wanted to return to the Garden before the Fall, but keep the wealth and splendor of Babylon and Sodom. To be precise, Marxism and Nazism want prelapsarian man, the noble savage, but not to live in garden: Marxist lore teaches that after the World Revolution, comes Utopia. Christian lore teaches that after the Armageddon, comes the Millennium. Please note the Christian lore holds that a city, the New Jerusalem (of which the temple and tabernacle of Earthly Jerusalem were mere human reflections) will hold the paradise of souls restored to the innocence of Eden. In other words tie 'city' where the noble savages of Rosseau, once they achieve the superman morality of Nietzsche or the Socialist species-being of Marx, is their version of the New Jerusalem.

No apology from Gore or Greta? youtu.be/6nyEGEonSEc

@harm3t If God does not exist, then I have devoted my life to a falsehood that somehow promotes love, love of truth, love of beauty, and, ironically, love of my enemy. What would you prefer? The only other options are selfishness, leading to despair, or stoicism, leading to suicide.

Koine Greek (in which the New Testament is written) is was the standard language written and spoken in Galilee in the First Century. Jesus had 11 Disciples and 40 followers hearing is every speech for 3 years and could have corrected each other's memories. They began preaching and baptizing immediately. The need for a written record only appeared after churches had been established for several decades among the many provinces of the Empire. Since all ancient learning preserved to the modern day passed through a period of verbal memorization and recitation, the burden is of proof is on you to support your extraordinary statement. Or do you make the same claim for Homer, Thucydides, Xenophon, Caesar, Cicero?

@Defensofidei Praying for my enemies.

@lampwright4 That looks somewhat yellow to me

Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

If the wife of an earl turned traitor, and, as the cruel old punishment held, had her ears cropped off, would she be an earless earless?

@Celebrim42 @BillArnoldTeach Nor do we. It has been four hundred years and more, brother. Can you give this tired falsehood a rest? It is like saying the Jew in days of old 'worshipped' the Ark of the Covenant, on that grounds that David danced before it, and priests carried it with ceremonial solemnity

@lampwright4 On February 4, 1824, J.W. Goodrich introduced the public to the first rubber galoshes. Good to know Tom Bombadil had them in the Third Age of Middle Earth.

When you are asking for the odds about a universal metaphysical proposition, you are asking, in effect, out of all the universes, how many per each hundred were created by design vs arose by spontaneously, without cause? If a universe can create itself from nothing for no reason, we live in a cosmos where cause and effect is a local phenomenon, an illusion. So all talk of chance falls by the wayside. There can be no talk of chance in a universe without causes and effects. Contrariwise, if a universe can only arise from rational design, arising spontaneously is impossible. Again, no chance involved. If, on the other hand, you are merely asking how likely I am to see the design in nature and ascribe it to a rational designer? I would say that this is an inescapable conclusion. Even those who deny there is design in nature ascribe intentionality to nature, as when they say evolutionary adaptations are 'for' survival, wings are 'for' flying, eyeballs 'for' seeing. Intention implies a mind.

@lampwright4 Yes , a somewhat yellow leathery brown. Not rain galoshes. Are we going to argue with Old Tom? Besides 'brown' does not rhyme with 'fellow'