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<p>^ Why did He have to wait billions of years?</p>

<p>1.) One would assume that an omnipotent deity that creates time will transcend it.</p>

<p>2.) Humans need to stop thinking they’re so important. You’re right, a lot of time has passed. Whether you believe it to be through God or not, there is a likelihood that other civilizations rose to shining heights and fell into extinction far before this particular rock even cooled down enough to stop being molten.</p>

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<p>Very true. There could be civilizations that are far superior to humans, and even better looking than us. Maybe he was busy.</p>

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<p>It’s just as likely that we’re number 9001 as number 1.</p>

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<p>I love religious debates. How can someone believe in an entity that is omnipresent but never does anything? How was God created? How can you determine what’s good and evil?
It’s questions like these that make me wonder why I’m still a Christan.</p>

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Sorry, most Christians don’t think God wrote the Bible. Men wrote the Bible about other men’s experiences with God.</p>

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How can a being infinitely less than another understand that other’s actions or decide that they know when it has or has not “done anything”?</p>

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If you accept that God created space and time, you can suppose that God was before time was, and thus He does not need a cause. He is, as Aquinas would say, the Uncaused Cause, the Unmoved Mover. Otherwise, you have infinite regress, especially without a concept of God.</p>

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Innate qualities of right and wrong actions. “It isn’t right because God says it; God says it because it’s right.”</p>

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You were raised that way.</p>

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<p>Question! What religion are you Billy? </p>

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Roman Catholic.</p>

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<p>^A fellow Roman Catholic, I don’t find much Catholics around here.</p>

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Well, people don’t usually just state their religion on here. The only other one I know who is a regular of HSL is TCBH. I’m sure I’d find more if I went into that “Science vs. Religion” thread, but the premise is so ridiculous and the argument so repetitive that I really have no desire to.</p>

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<p>I always find that people who are Jewish and Muslim are a bit more open about their religion.</p>

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<p>What determines the fate of each individual? Is man a creator and mover of his life, or does he live at the effect of forces over which he has little control? Do we really have free will?</p>

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If that’s true, maybe it’s because it makes them different, and thus is something they bring up more. Most Americans are Christians, and most Christians are Catholics, and 25% of US citizens are Catholics, so it’s not surprising to see a lot of Catholics. However, only 1.2% of US citizens are Jewish and 0.6% are Muslim, so they’re more rare.</p>

<p>(I didn’t use “Americans” for some of those, because that would include Catholic Latin America, and thus screw up the numbers I was trying to give for the U.S.)</p>

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He can love all and still be displeased by the actions of some, similar to the parent of a pesky child.</p>

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All past actions and events affecting the motion of particles in the brain.</p>

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The latter can be just as true without religion.</p>

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Depends on your definition of free will.</p>

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<p>Just to clarify for Daxlo - it’s been established that the concept behind this thread is unoriginal. Now the onus is on you to show that originality is [url=&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue"]virtuous[/url"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue"]virtuous[/url</a>].</p>

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<p>I expect no fewer than 4000 words defending this assertion in a semi-formal philosophical paper.</p>

<p>(On a related note, I once wrote a philosophy paper that was 4444 words long.)</p>

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<p>I was actually hoping for something following the same general outline as The Republic.</p>

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<p>Bonus points for working the Cave in there somehow.</p>

<p>Edit: Especially because it would be unoriginal, come to think of it.</p>

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Why… 9001???</p>

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You pretty much hit the nail on the head.</p>

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I think it’s something to do with a known internet pedophile group.</p>

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