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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #375 on: June 17, 2017, 12:03:27 PM »
Fallacy Boy,

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Absolutely incorrect.
Where have I suggested a natural explanation?

And WHAMMO! he's straight in with the fallacy of the straw man.

A fine effort to decimate your opponents in Fallacy Top Trumps.

Now try responding to what I actually said though...

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If you want to go ahead......... but at this stage in the game it is you who will either be unable to suggest a naturalistic explanation or be forced to offer what you've called a false binary.

Oooh, the fallacy of judgmental language. You haven't tried that one for a while, but it's only three-pointer in FTT I'm afraid.

It's not that I've "called" it a binary choice, but rather that you think it is a binary choice - that's your false binary fallacy. The third option - "don't know" - tells you nothing whatever I'm afraid about conjectures you may have about a supposed "supernatural". 

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Good luck with that.

With what – falsifying your mistakes? There's no luck required.

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And with you left well and truly up shit creek sans padelle I will bid you a good day.

Aw, the delusional cry of the loser through the ages. Gonna be nice today - ask that nice Philippina nurse at the Bide a Wee While Home for the Terminally Mendacious to let you park you bath chair on the west lawn without your rug today. You'll get a nice tan that way. 
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #376 on: June 17, 2017, 12:56:34 PM »
I have plenty of times.

"It must be the one true church because otherwise I'd be wrong" doesn't count as a reason.
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #377 on: June 17, 2017, 01:06:04 PM »

Listen mate, don't waste your breath. Paganism is so much more fun.


Apart from the word 'mate', Ad_O being no-ones mate as that would imply an, all-be-it loosest possible, same-sex relationship, you never spoke truer words!

Bring on the mead and the naked dancing and free-for-all-fornication in the woods!

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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #378 on: June 17, 2017, 07:34:04 PM »
Apart from the word 'mate', Ad_O being no-ones mate as that would imply an, all-be-it loosest possible, same-sex relationship, you never spoke truer words!

Bring on the mead and the naked dancing and free-for-all-fornication in the woods!

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I know everything there is to know about paganism I've read several Dennis Wheatley books, what more does one need to know.

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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #379 on: June 17, 2017, 08:54:37 PM »

I know everything there is to know about paganism I've read several Dennis Wheatley books, what more does one need to know.

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That Dennis Wheatley books are about Satanism and not Paganism?
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #380 on: June 17, 2017, 10:49:10 PM »
That Dennis Wheatley books are about Satanism and not Paganism?

Some of them are.

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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #381 on: June 18, 2017, 09:53:55 AM »
Moderator A number of posts which were an off topic personal spat between members have been removed.
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #382 on: June 18, 2017, 04:16:21 PM »
I know everything there is to know about paganism I've read several Dennis Wheatley books, what more does one need to know.

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Dennis Wheatley knew about as much about paganism as my foreskin, continually confusing it (as Owlswing says) with Satanism. Try Prof. Ronald Hutton. You don't need to be a believer (I'm not) to grasp this basic difference. That little I do know.
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #383 on: June 18, 2017, 05:23:37 PM »
Dennis Wheatley knew about as much about paganism as my foreskin........
There's just one big draw back with that idea.

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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #384 on: June 18, 2017, 05:30:31 PM »
There's just one big draw back with that idea.
Did you think of that all by yourself or did someone give you a tip off?
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #385 on: June 18, 2017, 05:38:55 PM »
Did you think of that all by yourself or did someone give you a tip off?
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #386 on: June 18, 2017, 05:42:14 PM »
Did you think of that all by yourself or did someone give you a tip off?
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #387 on: June 18, 2017, 06:32:10 PM »
OK, I'll put this one in before we (try) to get back on topic (some hope) When aforensic examination of Tutankhamun's remains took place in the mid '70's, itt was noted that his penis had been embalmed and now looked very - er - proud. After several x-rays, skin samples, etc, were taken, the remains were returned to KV 62 to be covered by the lid of the outer coffin, leaving the king in situ. However, not all of him was returned....yep.....a rather significant bit was 'misplaced'. Academic journals, in one of their less turgid moments, sported the following headline..... "Who's been silly with King Tut's willy?" OK, back on topic.......
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #388 on: June 18, 2017, 07:55:23 PM »
OK, I'll put this one in before we (try) to get back on topic (some hope) When aforensic examination of Tutankhamun's remains took place in the mid '70's, itt was noted that his penis had been embalmed and now looked very - er - proud. After several x-rays, skin samples, etc, were taken, the remains were returned to KV 62 to be covered by the lid of the outer coffin, leaving the king in situ. However, not all of him was returned....yep.....a rather significant bit was 'misplaced'. Academic journals, in one of their less turgid moments, sported the following headline..... "Who's been silly with King Tut's willy?" OK, back on topic.......

With Vlad posting you got no chance . . . .
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #389 on: June 19, 2017, 09:26:48 AM »
Foolish as this might be, on the subject of the thread ad_orientem posted that he sometimes thought of what he views as protestants as following the idea of a demiurge. I was wondering, ad_o, if this in some way relates to the idea that acts are 'looked down' on in your viewing protestant theology since there is an emphasis on the complete fallen nature of man?
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #390 on: June 19, 2017, 10:03:05 AM »
I don't know how many Orthodox Christians share ad_o's condemnatory attitude - all I can say that the chap who tried to thump NT greek into me at Uni, and later became the Orthodox Archbishop of 'the UK and Thyatira' was a bit less....er....rigid. He seemed to see those of us who professed a faih in Christ as Christian, rather than heretic. (There were two atheists in the class....one of whom is now a Methodist minister in South Sudan)
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #391 on: June 19, 2017, 10:32:02 AM »
Anchs,

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(There were two atheists in the class....one of whom is now a Methodist minister in South Sudan)

Obviously not a true atheist then  ;)
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Re: Protestantism
« Reply #392 on: June 19, 2017, 10:39:02 AM »
Yes, definitely needs to work more on his atheism, that one.