Moral argument for God's existence

[tommyjones]

That is more reasonable. Please in full disclosure share with us......your belief system.

maybe another time, and with soemone who isn't so bigoted.

as to this discussion, i have clearly stated my opinion on morals and religion

 

[foodcritic]

Ahh its cute, Foodcritic has had his hat handed to him so often, usually in his own threads, let him think he's got a lunker on the other end of his line.

You have pontificated (darwinated) about how important accurately quoting and doing extensive internet confirmation was to these discussions. How it was a "peeve" when don't do it properly AND WHAM you go off and misquote someones misquote (in the same thread mind U) and you don't see the irony...You do live in the bizarro world. Your off the excuse it's just tricky to keep track....

You raised the issue in the first place........Here's your HAT

 

[foodcritic]

I've never hid that i'm a Christ Punching Atheist (not mine, i've borrowed it).


I think we are in agreement, theres been alot of misquotes (starting with FoodCritic's original assertion) so it gets tricky to keep track.

Again this is not a misquote. It's a quote that is commonly attributed to FD. My original assertion was not an assertion it was just a quote from FD. The only people it seems to bother is you and David E. Cortesi, who you seem to have learned to cut and paste his work(w/o ref).

You claim the quote is from Sarte, but provide no reasonable support if any.

Here is your hat.

 

[foodcritic]

Nice try, but once again YOU FoodCritic made the claim without an attempt to verify, that Dostoevsky stated something that he never stated. You've been asked, a few times in this thread, to actually quote where Dostoevsky made the statement.

The ONLY thing you've found is where someone else (Sartre) made a statement about what Dostoevsky meant in his book The Brothers Karamazov. You even claim to have the book, so it should be easy to find.

First, you DO NOT know what attempts I made to verify (unless your God)....Your wrong in your statement.

Second, I do not need to prove it. It's commonly attributed to him. If you don't think he made the statement prove otherwise. The quote is commonly used and attributed to him. But I will provide this from wikpedia:

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral; everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
Variant translation : Everything is permitted.
Variant translation: All is lawful. Paraphrased variant: If God does not exist, everything is permitted.
This is a paraphrase of ideas presented in the story but this statement is not found within the work. (More info at "Dostoevsky Didn't Say It" by David E. Cortesi.)

Notice the Variant Translation part....I don't know russian (sure u do) but the quote maybe clearer in the russian translation and not the english OR maybe,because the theme is present in many of his writings, it was a statement made by him at some point over his life.

Thirdly, I never stated it was Sarte...YOU DID, Apparently that is cortesi's contention and you regurgitated it for us.

And you say I am twisting things...

 

[Xaquin44]

Dostoevsky Didn't Say It

 

[foodcritic]

Dostoevsky Didn't Say It

Now we know you can google. This has already been cited in the discussion. Go back a page.