Matthew Le God

1) Your statement appears to presume God exists. You can't have aggression towards something that you think has not been proved to exist. 2) If he did exist then he deserves aggression towards him and not worship. He endorses slavery, rape, genocide etc. That is not an entity deserving of unbridled worship. You keep making excuses for him... but he is a horrific character in that old book. 3) Your point about Russia is bizarre. Russia is a human construct that evolved from early states. That whole topic came up when you were trying to give examples of prophecy. It is fundamentally flawed to use the Bible to support the Bible in prophecy. I outlined why it is a circular argument which you appear to have ignored. It is deeply flawed and you have the cheek to call me 'not very bright'! It is you that hasn't grasped how an old book cannot be evidence of prophecy that is later fulfilled in the same book. 4) You call me 'not very bright', yet you appear to take the Bible very literally. You are a man who appears to think talking snakes, burning bushes, global genocidal floods, walking on water, water into wine etc etc literally happened! 🙄

1) As I just showed above. You misunderstand and misquote me. Catholics and Protestants make up their own view of purgatory, but that is them cherry picking and creating a religious schism of their own. 2) Are you claiming for definite an after life exists? Is it outside space and time? Because existence by definition is temporal and physical and so cannot exist outside time and space. That would be an oxymoron.

I don't know how many more times I need to say this to you..!. I have not said there is no afterlife! 🙄 What I have said is that there is no credible evidence available to me that shows there is an afterlife. There is a significant difference between those two positions and you keep claiming I've said the former... when I haven't! 🙄

It does not work. It is flawed! They are not being asked about the same piece of evidence. They are provided with different bits of evidence and then asked about their own bit of evidence. So it is a nonsense analogy to the situation and point you were failing to make.

Free will is logically impossible if a creator God is all knowing and all powerful. We've been through that already! 😉

1) I've now refuted your point that there are no Abrahamic differences regarding the afterlife. That is clearly not true and you've even provided evidence to show that is the case. 2) 'Fundamental underpinning' - What is that then?

God been talking to you again? How do you know you weren't hallucinating?

Your coin analogy does not work. Please give another.

A schism is a difference in opinion or belief. The differing views on purgatory isn't the cause of a schism, it is the schism. Another afterlife difference between the Abrahamic religions is the Houri. No mention of Christians being accompanied by numerous virgins in heaven, only in Islam.

No it wouldn't. It really does not work as an analogy. It is flawed and irrelevant.

It shows a schism about the afterlife that you said did not exist. Then you went and found evidence it does exist! Doing my job for me!

You mean the analogy that is fundamentally flawed? "If I could find 2 people who had never seen money and sat them facing each other, then held a pound coin up between them and asked them if they could see a face, one of them would say no, but that wouldn't mean the face didn't exist. Both interpretations of the coin would be correct." The question was 'can you see a face?' The question was not 'is there a face on this coin?'.

All that does is back up my point. That they have different views on it! How does that help your case?

This is simply not true. For example Protestants and Catholics have different views on purgatory.

Religions and some of their followers claim their scriptures are 100% accurate. They have conflicting views on the afterlife that cannot all be correct. So if one religion was shown to be correct on the afterlife it would show the others are not 100% accurate.

No it is not 'merely opinion'. I already answered this with... If a religious book was able to withstand scrutiny regarding an afterlife there would be no schisms in religion as to what happens. If everyone was faced with the strong evidence that one of the old books has got it right, why would anyone believe a different religious book? The fact that it hasn't happened proves no book has stood up-to scrutiny.

Wow... how to start unboxing that! 1) I don't cherry pick parts of Christmas. I just explained to you how pretty much every single aspect of a Christian Christmas is stolen from other cultures. 2) It is incompatible to believe God is 100% kind and loving and yet he endorses genocide, rape and slavery in the Bible. If you cherry pick and decide to ignore those aspects of the character of God then you are creating your own religion and your own God. Because the God of the Bible does endorse those things!

Why would there be schisms about the afterlife if it was proven that one religion was correct about the afterlife? Schisms exist because religion and thousands of Gods are man made.

I didn't evade the question, I answered it... If a religious book was able to withstand scrutiny regarding an afterlife there would be no schisms in religion as to what happens. If everyone was faced with the strong evidence that one of the old books has got it right, why would anyone believe a different religious book? The fact that it hasn't happened proves no book has stood up-to scrutiny.

You are getting confused again, I have not said there is no afterlife. I said no evidence for the claim that there is an afterlife stands up to scrutiny. Those are not the same thing!

It isn't really a judgement if for one of the options you don't exist! Plus how would you know you weren't hallucinating?

Not sure why you find it funny... I just outlined to you why celebration with friends and family and giving presents at that time of year is not Christian... because those traditions pre-date Christianity and the Christians simply absorbed them. As for your point about 'anyone going to church getting to decide that they aren't a supporter of genocide'. The Bible undeniably shows the character of God to be a mass murderer and genocidal. If you go to church and decide that they don't endorse genocide... then they are opposing the character as described in the Bible. He also endorses rape, slavery and numerous other horrible things.

You are moving the goalposts now. I was responding to religious books not standing up-to scrutiny.

I've already addressed this. If there is no afterlife it is impossible to make any judgement... because you won't exist to be able to do any judging!

The undeniable fact that there are billions of interpretations as to what any afterlife is like. If a religious book was able to withstand scrutiny regarding an afterlife there would be no schisms in religion as to what happens after death. Everyone would be faced with the evidence that one of the books has got it right so why believe another book? That clearly is not the case and so there are numerous versions of what happens after death competing with each other.