@ErikB(ullshit)Brewer
"Please answer the question, I did not ask you to bloviate. I asked you if you believe that criminals should be punished for their crimes (a simple yes or no will do)."
I commented, re. your quote posted here in FSTDT ( http://www.fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=55197&Page=1 ):
'"even though many atheists have tried to destroy them"
What's happening to Libya as part of a potential 'Reverse-Domino Effect' (Egypt, Tunisia) could actually help Israel (if all the Middle East countries were purely India-esque secular democracies). The vote in Parliament the other day to approve of UK armed forces' intervention to save Libyan civilians (almost unanimous too). Nick Clegg as one example. He's our Deputy Prime Minister. He's an Atheist.
"The over 300 Old Testament prophecies"
The bullshit levels in such are OVER 9000!
"The resurrection"
If such actually happened - because there's not one shred of physical evidence to back up such. There's nary a shred of evidence that an actual 'Jesus' ever existed, but was a conglomeration of earlier, similar myths (Mithras, for one).
Three rebuttals to your claims, Erik. Now go ahead and hit your knees before me in humility. Agree that - as far as you (and the rest of your fundie ilk) are concerned, we Atheists are God.
By the way, 'God' does not hear prayers, because he doesn't exist.
Then furthermore:
'"You guys are quite hostile toward a God whom you claim does not exist"
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How can we be 'hostile' towards a being that doesn't exist? The game goes like this (for the hard of thinking such as ErikB(ullshit)Brewer):
Well, y'see, we're not the ones who put forward the notion that a 'God' exists. It's you Christians who do. Thus the onus is upon you to show us (to our satisfaction) this 'God' (and that's 'God' himself, not 'Jesus') in hard, solid, physical form that can be seen, heard & touched; also that he is who he says he is, via demonstrations of his power - again, to the satisfaction of we Atheists. And if that means he must do whatever I say in perpetuity, so be it. Them's the terms, they're not up for negotiation.
Therefore, it's up to you to show that this being you fundies claim 'created' this universe, this planet & all the life on it exists. Ergo, the Burden of Proof. Which is upon you. QED.
But to date, he hasn't been able to. Ergo, 'God doesn't exist. Q.E.D., bitch.
Your call, ErikB(ullshit)Brewer.'
All because of your quote here, verbatim:
"You want proof for the existence of God, here are a few:
1. Israel - God said that they will always be a people once He brought them into existence and they have been. They are here today even though many atheists have tried to destroy them (Stalin as one example).
2. The over 300 Old Testament prophecies (some written 1500 years before His birth) of the first Advent of Jesus Christ. Could not be a coincidence because we do not have a number large enough to show the odds against all of them being fulfilled in One person.
3. The resurrection - yes the one with Christ Himself but also the one that I experienced. I was spiritually dead in my sins (a slave to sin) and God brought me to life (changed my life and set me free from slavery to sin).
Three real proofs, now go ahead and hit your knees in repentance (agree that God is right and you are wrong).
By the way God does not hear the prayers of non-Christians (with the exception of their first prayer of repentance)."
And, like I say, in commenting thusly, you were asked to prove the existence of your 'God', to the satisfaction of we Atheists (as per my satisfactory - and only - method, in my comments).
Now care to show me in aforementioned quote the words 'Do you think criminals should be punished or should they be allowed to do what they want?' appear therein?
Now who's bloviating - and deviating? Like I say, "I figured you would run away from that question.", certainly the point in hand (and via asking an irrelevant question).
Now answer the point in hand, re your quote, and as per my comments: prove the existence of your 'God' - to the satisfaction of we Atheists.
If you can't, then it proves (what we Atheists have said all along) that a 'God' doesn't exist. Now you tell me: what has criminals (and whether or not they should be punished) got to do with that? The issue was never mentioned in your original quote.
But then, not for nothing is your name ErikB(ullshit)Brewer. Irrelevance, non-sequiturs and deviation from the point is the bullshit you're brewing, after all.