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    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(11 hours ago)SteveII Wrote: It was the actual footage of an abortion. The complaint was that by speeding up the time when the suction tube was inserted, normal fetal movement seemed like thrashing....
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 10 hours ago
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-13-2024, 04:59 PM)brewerb Wrote: If they were told the medical facts, understood that abortion is just one legal option (which apparently will continue to be legal in the US society, look at the...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-13-2024, 07:28 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-13-2024, 01:21 PM)SteveII Wrote: It does not even matter if the claims were misleading or not. The sonogram was real. It actually was not "real" it was maliciously edited. Is an edited video of...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-13-2024, 01:58 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-11-2024, 11:44 AM)SteveII Wrote: It served the purpose of making people face, scientifically, what was going on. Seriously, are you all there Steve? How can a fake video using VFX and lies can m...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-11-2024, 02:46 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(05-10-2024, 07:36 PM)pocaracas Wrote: So Last Week Tonight has uploaded a bunch of old episodes from 2014... Guess what you'll find in the first 3 minutes of this one? [Video: ] Time is a flat cir...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 198 5,221 05-10-2024, 09:36 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-10-2024, 08:05 PM)SteveII Wrote: Regarding the sonogram/ultrasound and it's effects on the public mind, see the article The Silent Scream (specifically the section Reception) or the actual video...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-10-2024, 08:59 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-10-2024, 05:14 PM)SteveII Wrote: Pay attention to what I was answering: what was the change that energized a 50+ year-long Christian (especially evangelical) response against abortion when prior...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-10-2024, 06:10 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-10-2024, 03:45 PM)SteveII Wrote: Ironically, it was science (you know, the thing that religion is supposedly in opposition to) that brought about the change in thinking about the unborn. Sonogra...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-10-2024, 04:32 PM
    Thread: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion
Post: RE: A Non-Religious Case Against Abortion

(05-08-2024, 08:20 AM)SYZ Wrote: How much money does “God” have? Or, more correctly, the Catholic Church. A 2018 investigation by The Age newspaper found that the assets and investments of the Au...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 826 18,835 05-08-2024, 12:59 PM
    Thread: Question No. 2
Post: RE: Question No. 2

(05-06-2024, 10:31 AM)airportkid Wrote: Would life be more or less enjoyable with neither gods nor belief in them to affect mood? There would be no change whatsoever in happiness with or without rel...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 21 266 05-06-2024, 06:06 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(05-06-2024, 02:36 PM)SteveII Wrote: Pantheist don't believe in a God. While that might be true for some pantheist, this would be false for most. As the name imply, pantheism is a form of theism and...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 05-06-2024, 04:03 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(05-06-2024, 02:04 PM)SteveII Wrote: (05-06-2024, 01:35 PM)epronovost Wrote: How is that a non sequitur? This post presents a series of facts about life in the universe that are evidence that a de...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 05-06-2024, 02:11 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(05-06-2024, 12:32 PM)SteveII Wrote: That was a long, drawn out non sequitur and your conclusion just a rambling mess of unrelated assertions. Perhaps you should try responding in smaller chunks on ...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 05-06-2024, 01:35 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(05-03-2024, 07:05 PM)SteveII Wrote: Regarding the Baha'i movement, that's seems to be just pluralism. Christianity is 100% exclusive. In my understanding of Baha'i movement, then again I only ever ...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 05-03-2024, 08:55 PM
    Thread: my "philosophy" as a humanist
Post: RE: my "philosophy" as a humanist

(05-02-2024, 01:34 PM)SteveII Wrote: Requiring people to be skeptical crosses the line into special pleading--we don't do that for other personal experiences, why this particular one? Requiring peop...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 140 2,485 05-02-2024, 01:49 PM
    Thread: my "philosophy" as a humanist
Post: RE: my "philosophy" as a humanist

(05-01-2024, 06:21 PM)SteveII Wrote: My point was that the supernatural is not necessarily inexplicable. If God says he will make his presence felt in your life, and he does, that does not seem inex...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 140 2,485 05-01-2024, 07:28 PM
    Thread: my "philosophy" as a humanist
Post: RE: my "philosophy" as a humanist

(05-01-2024, 05:06 PM)SteveII Wrote: Why should the supernatural be inexplicable? It seems like you might be starting a question-begging line of reasoning. Supernatural is usually defined negatively...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 140 2,485 05-01-2024, 05:36 PM
    Thread: The Intrinsic Honesty of Atheism
Post: RE: The Intrinsic Honesty of Atheism

(04-27-2024, 11:44 PM)Dānu Wrote: If you don't know how then you don't know that. So if I don't know how a magician managed to produce an illusion or a how a special effect designer managed to produ...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 131 2,460 04-28-2024, 03:40 AM
    Thread: Fuckface's VP Choice?
Post: RE: Fuckface's VP Choice?

(04-27-2024, 01:05 AM)pattylt Wrote: A 14 month old puppy that wasn’t trained to hunt yet…and she hated it…so, she killed it. I tend to not like people that solve problems by just killing them.  Sh...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 23 485 04-27-2024, 06:31 PM
    Thread: The Intrinsic Honesty of Atheism
Post: RE: The Intrinsic Honesty of Atheism

(04-27-2024, 02:31 AM)Huggy Bear Wrote: Simple answer, No. Can I have the less simple answer since a simple no doesn't allow for any conversation? Quote:A sleeping person is unconscious That's no...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 131 2,460 04-27-2024, 04:09 AM
    Thread: The Intrinsic Honesty of Atheism
Post: RE: The Intrinsic Honesty of Atheism

(04-27-2024, 01:26 AM)Huggy Bear Wrote: *emphasis mine* What you presented was a conclusion, when I asked you to present peer-reviewed research to back up your claim of "all sorts of evidence, well-...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 131 2,460 04-27-2024, 01:50 AM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(04-26-2024, 07:49 PM)SteveII Wrote: The concept of 'progressive revelation' refers to the belief that God disclosed aspects of His character and will to humanity gradually over time through the Bib...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 04-26-2024, 10:15 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(04-26-2024, 01:55 PM)SteveII Wrote: I have seen you comment before on the idea that the conception of God is due to Greek influence and therefore not authentic somehow. It's undeniably true and uni...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 04-26-2024, 02:22 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(04-26-2024, 12:18 PM)SteveII Wrote: I am explaining that it is an inaccurate view of what metaphysics is (which is not science) that makes an atheist think that Christianity conflicts with science ...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 04-26-2024, 12:56 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

(04-25-2024, 01:10 AM)SteveII Wrote: (04-24-2024, 06:25 PM)epronovost Wrote: So we do agree when we he says that nobody knows if the universe began; that there is a beginning of a sort, but that t...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 147 2,645 04-25-2024, 10:34 AM