Enlighten the newb: Who are the SDMB woo-woos who argue WELL?

Fuck off back to your loser board, nobwipe!

WTF is a nobwipe?

I think maybe he meant knobwipe? I’m not sure.

Ooooow, burn.

Wait, I mean woo woo, burn.
This woo woo thing is awesome.

Really what? That religion is objectively disproven, or that many folks think it is?

If it’s the latter, yes: check out this GD thread. There Diogenes clearly and forcefully argues that consciousness is entirely a function of the brain, and that this has been proven beyond shadow of a doubt. Therefore no ghosts, no soul, and thus no afterlife - a major cornerstone of a good many religions.

You know what I mean… and you know I’m right. Nobwipe.

That the existance of God has been objectively disproven. I just wasted an hour at CNN, looking for the breaking news… :wink:

Nobody cares. God, as typically described violates a variety of physical laws, and is logically incoherent to boot; and that’s as close as to God being “objectively disproven” as you will ever get. Putting that on the news would imply that it’s new, which it isn’t.

Not quite following your “nobody cares” comment.

I think it’s more accurate to say that the religious posters who hang around here for a while figure out that there won’t be any particularly constructive discussions involving religion, and thus don’t get involved in religious threads. (Hell, I stopped reading most of them years ago, and it hasn’t exactly ruined my life.)

Hey! I’m the one that drops pro wrestling references in casual conversation around here. Stop that!

<Hits **Polycarp **with a steel chair, then applies the Figure Four leglock. Wooooooooo!>

The fact that God violates physical laws is obvious, and the irrationality and illogic of the idea are well known. Believers don’t care. Logic, reason, facts, truth don’t matter to them; they believe what they want to believe.

Ah. So he means ‘sock’.

I suppose it could be a sock, but it applies to anything that can be used to remove the smegma collected beneath the foreskin.

Try soap and water.

Project much?

My debating skills have been described as “trainwreck”-esque in the past elsewhere on these boards. Just a heads up.

Not only that, you killed the fuckin’ thread. Way to go.

Woo!

For any random miracle story taken naively as truth, your statement is accurate. For the overall conception of a God, not necessarily conceived of as what is mocked as a “Magic Sky Pixie” here (which conception I agree deserves mockery if anything about religion does), not so much. Jack Spong, for example, has gotten a lot of flack for a theology that tries to stay consonant with natural law and human psychological behavior.

YMMV, of course, and I’d be quick to agree with you that much of organized religion is responsibile for a fair part of the world’s ills (as well as for some good). As we’ve discussed in the past, though, don’t be too quick to throw the Baby Jesus out with the bathwater.

Woo woo

and shit