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Was bloody brilliant...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fyerwOIwfRc

Yay! Can of worms opened! Woo-Hoo!

In case you can't tell what I'm talking about, this board is run by at least one mormon, a rather strong christian who knoes how to have a good time, a lazy christian, a a rather strong chrsitian who doesn't know how to have a good time, and a guy who's probably christian but has several very controversial beliefs.

Not a warning of any kind, just saying that this post may not go quite smoothly as you may have planned.

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I personally don't think that religion should make a difference on how brilliant he was. In the link I just posted, is it not amazing how thorough, insightful, simple, and funny he can make such a complex topic? Simply genius. And for the record, yes, I'm an atheist

I think he's an incredibly smart, funny guy. I'm just not onboard the whole atheist bandwagon (in case your wondering, the last guy on that list of people was me).
And I also know that the opinions expressed in that video might make a few people here freak out. I'm not one of them, but I know a few people who might. And one person who definatly would.

..,But I love watching that person freak out. It's hillarious.

ha ha ha caleb.... *shakes head*
yes well um right... it was pretty funny and probably could be a source of somthing like this. HOWEVER the first forms of theisim was poly... mono came about latter, and it was mostly poly until after christ. sure there was judeaism and others that were mono thiesistc but the promenate religions of the time before christ were mainly poly so that whole argument goes to crap. but it was rather entertaining...

Not necessarily. As he said, they asked themselves, who made this great land? As he goes on to describe what he feels to be the creator, the human could have easily chosen different gods/deities to have created/maintained different aspects of the land. The puddle probably would have chosen a single god just because there are less variables in his situation.

did you even listen to what he said... he clearly said that "hmm what made this" ->"obviously somthing like me, cuz we make stuff, so something that makes stuff is like me" -> "obviously a male cuz the females don't do anything" -> "for me cuz it fits me"
the mono theistic god (of chritiantiy/judeaism, which are the same 'God' just to be clear here)

You forgot the Islamic god as well. I'm just pointing out that his argument still works for a polytheistic religion, even if describes a monotheistic god. Your argument was that his argument didn't work since they had polytheistic religions and I pointed out that his argument would still work even for polytheism, you just have to change the wording a bit.

... umm if you change the words it isn't the same arguent, is it.
that is like saing i am going to a bar then you saing that i am going to a strip joint... not the same
and about the Islamic god... it isn't quite clear but it is posible that it is the same god as the christian/judea god, but that isn't really the point i was trying to make/fight.
the point is he was describing 1 male all powerful god, which fits many views, on religion; just not some of the earlier ones.