Is that a rent-by-the-hour place?Louisville doesn’t have the Bryan Station Inn
POLL: Is there a God ??
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I can only find one pic of it. Guy on the right was holed up there after killing someone.
Many photos here: BS InnI can only find one pic of it. Guy on the right was holed up there after killing someone.
A .5 star motel.
But they do have....Billy Minardi HallLouisville doesn’t have the Bryan Station Inn
WildcatfaninOhio
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Do you wear garlic around your neck “just in case” vampires are real?
I’ve never understood the whole Pascal’s Wager nonsense. What a waste of time, energy, and brain cells. Not to mention 10% of one’s gross income.
Santa is real, when I was a child I got presents labeled from him.
You accept God or you make your own god. Pretending others need coping mechanisms is a coping mechanism.
I can only find one pic of it. Guy on the right was holed up there after killing someone.
WATCH | Police: Wanted person found dead in room at Bryan Station Inn
Police told WKYT that after multiple attempts to make contact with the person police called in its emergency response team.
We have some evangelical atheists on this board. They are not simply atheists who are ambivalent about other people’s beliefs. Some are evangelical out of insecurity. They tend to be more of the trolls. Some appear to be evangelical because atheism is their religion. And, there are a handful of true atheists who have no belief in God and are just having a fair discussion.
Believers are no less aware of that reality.
Atheism doesn't just mean without theism, but also proactive rejection. That is the complete definition, and as it is used today colloquially; to denote certainty, and a strong stance against theism, contrasted with agnosticism, which is simply not knowing, i.e. ignorant, sharing the same etymological root.
Which is what I would qualify you aheists as, ignorant. You are ignorant of the principal reality to our existence. You have answered to yourselves, as of now, incorrectly to the only question that really matters. And you want that belief (error) to be more prevalent.
But why does the atheist even care what other people believe, and what benefit does he have imposing his beliefs on others? I understand some of you may feel your lives would've been better without Christianity, that maybe you would prefer others in your lives weren't Christian and saw things as you do, but that is certainly not the case for everyone.
If phrasing it that way helps you sleep have at it.
doesn't change the fact that it's inaccurate.
disbelief IS a belief. And without anything to prove or disprove your non-belief it is, as I said, faith-based.
I love history so I'll provide a couple links I watched one night. Even if it's nonsense it's still interesting. It's amazing that the world just builds on top of itself as generations pass. The fact that the area where Julius Caesar was assassinated was discovered and now open to the public for example sorta blows my mind. Faith-wise, religion is what it is but the history and possible archeological finds is what I've always been interested in.
You call atheists ignorant yet you believe a sky fairy exists that cares enough to send people to eternal suffering because they refuse to believe in something with no proof, oh and somehow that sky fairy also loves you despite damning most people to suffering for all time.
And Christians care far more about the religion or lack of religion of others. They're always proselytizing, telling people they aren't good enough, etc. We have nutbag Conservative politicians who want this county to be a theocracy.
Christians have hateful views. They want to deny gay people marriage, remove the rights of women to their own bodies, etc.
Religion simply isn't needed modern times. Religions were partly created to try and explain things primitive people were incapable of understanding with science.
Ok, but I disagree with all of that.
So what.
And I mean ignorant in a technical sense, not as a pejorative. You are ignorant of something important, the most important something.
WildcatfaninOhio
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From my own experience, atheists are in no way ignorant of christianity or the bible. They tend to know it quite well, in fact. And because they know it so well, it reinforces the idea that it’s all made-up nonsense with no basis in logic or reality.
Ignorant of the reality (necessity and logic too, but not what I meant) of God. The reality of His existence.
Not ignorant of various facts or details. It is your opinion that God is nonsense.
WildcatfaninOhio
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It’s my opinion that the “story” is nonsense. It’s my opinion that the christian god, and the other thousands of gods, are all fictional.
So we’ve established that no one knows for sure, and no one has converted anyone, either way, correct?
You said that I quoted Freud before I actually quoted him. That’s amazing.
As a believer, it can be very challenging to prove the existence of God the Father to non believers. While it may appear simple to us as believers that something cannot come from nothing, and that God exists outside time, matter, and space, it does not appear that way to non believers.
I have found more success in proving the God of the Bible exists by providing evidence that God the Son (Jesus) existed, was crucified, and rose from the dead (discovery of empty tomb), as that is the foundational piece of Christianity.
Jesus Christ is the most proven person to have lived. Even the vast majority of well know atheist scholars do not deny His existence. Jesus' life is well documented in numerous non-biblical sources. His crucifixion is well documented in numerous non biblical sources, especially by those who detested Jesus and early Christians. The earthquake and darkening of the sky described in the Bible, right at the moment when Jesus died, are talked about in numerous non biblical sources.
Subsequently after Jesus death, resurrection, and ascension to Heaven, Jesus' disciples were persecuted/beaten/killed for preaching endlessly about Christ. They would have nothing to gain by spreading a lie about Jesus, except persecution and death.
Also, aside from Jesus, the accuracy of biblical prophecy is just staggering. And this, as well, can be sourced by evidence from outside the Bible. Not just the Bible said this would happen, and then the Bible said it happened. Really, really cool stuff.
I have found more success in proving the God of the Bible exists by providing evidence that God the Son (Jesus) existed, was crucified, and rose from the dead (discovery of empty tomb), as that is the foundational piece of Christianity.
Jesus Christ is the most proven person to have lived. Even the vast majority of well know atheist scholars do not deny His existence. Jesus' life is well documented in numerous non-biblical sources. His crucifixion is well documented in numerous non biblical sources, especially by those who detested Jesus and early Christians. The earthquake and darkening of the sky described in the Bible, right at the moment when Jesus died, are talked about in numerous non biblical sources.
Subsequently after Jesus death, resurrection, and ascension to Heaven, Jesus' disciples were persecuted/beaten/killed for preaching endlessly about Christ. They would have nothing to gain by spreading a lie about Jesus, except persecution and death.
Also, aside from Jesus, the accuracy of biblical prophecy is just staggering. And this, as well, can be sourced by evidence from outside the Bible. Not just the Bible said this would happen, and then the Bible said it happened. Really, really cool stuff.
Okay, if defining something is the same as phrasing something then I’m going to stick with it.
Maybe it is in your circle but in the world at large it isn’t.
That is not the definition. You are giving part of the definition, omitting the rest. The word atheism does not mean solely without belief in deity. This is too shallow of a definition.
It may mean that, and only that to you, but that is not the entirety of what the word means. Your phrasing is incomplete, and your disbelief is a belief by definition as well, whether it's consensus opinion amoung you atheists or not. You believe that God doesn't exist because you do not have satisfactory evidence for such a claim. In the absence of such evidence, you form a blief which you act upon and use going forward in all your analysis.
ALl of the beliefs you expressed have been expressed previously by thinkers such as Freud. He believed many of the same things about God and religion that you do, which should not come as a surprise. Freud believed just as you, that God is an idea invented by man, for man, for societal purposes.
He was wrong.
WildcatfaninOhio
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Do you know for sure that Odin does not exist? How about Amun-Ra or Allah or Zeus or Quetzalcoatl? Or any of the other thousands of gods that have been rumored to exist?
They can’t all be real. So the only logical conclusion, for me, is that they are all fiction.
That is an error in logic.
Such thinking would only be logical if the existence or nonexistence of other gods somehow affected the existence or nonexistence of others. Once you have disproved one, you have not disproved all others, but just that one.
But yes, gods do not exist. They are fiction. There is one God, and He came to us as Jesus so that we could know Him.
WildcatfaninOhio
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But didn’t the christian god acknowledge that others existed when he told you in his # 1 rule was to not worship the others?
“You shall have no other gods before me.”
If no other gods are real, why did your invisible friend put this in his top 10 naughty list?
You don’t have to give 10% but I’m sure you find way worse ways to blow that 10% of yours than helping feed the hungry, clothe the needy and provide safe places for children and adults to have fun community get together.
How much of that do you do in your free time? Churches do it every day/week. They don’t go blow that money they reinvest it in the community. What a horrible idea.
My church did that with 6 million last year, what did you and your buddies do?
Bro, you had faith in the mfing Cowboys and they’ve PROVEN for 28 years to factually be shit, but you give us grief for having faith in God? 🤔
No, that is another error in logic. That doesn't imply/necessitate they are real. There is one God, man shouldn't make one up and put that before Him, which is idolatry.
WildcatfaninOhio
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Again, if I was making up a top 10 list, I wouldn’t include things like gods that don’t exist. Would you? I think your imaginary friend either ain’t too bright, or has admitted to you that his competition is real. Pick one!
No, I don't accept the premise of your reasoning.
You live today, modern Man. You demand God's word be what you want it to be for us today, as modern man, with no historical regard to the needs of the past, the conditions and societies they lived under.
No. You quoted the typical Freudian claim that religion is a way for people to calm anxieties about the unknown. I responded by calling it what it was.
Atheists like to tell believers why they believe, rather than ask. And, atheists call Christians arrogant.
Not a flaw in logic, but an example of someone who has not read or studied scripture.
Well I go to a baptist church so zero priests, I know that at least, and I surely don’t believe you actually think ALL or even most or even 1/2 or even 1/100th of churches are working in congruence to commit and cover up pedophilia.
This is where atheists, non-believers, etc....stick their head up their backside. Logic and reality?.....all you have to do is look outside. Logic and reality is as clear as a new pane of glass. Don't understand what I am referring to?.....read the Bible.
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