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And you're supplying cases that show that not only is that the case, but that it's worse than you even originally said. So you're shooting your own case to pieces. If you want to say that everybody has exactly the same conception of "God," how does complaining that there are too many diff...

You're cherry-picking. You need to answer the question regarding the man that does not see wearing a dress as feminine and what he does see as being feminine if it's not just another stereotypical trope. You've abandoned your claim that gender is more than the stereotypical traits and resorted to c...

Nothing. I simply avoid reproducing the entire thing because a) it's already in the message you sent, and b) we haven't finished with the key part of the first question yet. So I'm including the part of the message that I think needs our present attention. Let's focus. So you say there are many und...

If that's what you mean, then it's even more clear that Atheists don't mean "God" when they say "God." They don't mean Allah, they don't mean milk maids, or the Pan spirit, or Zeus, or Odin, or... and they mean something different from the Judeo-Christian "I AM," too. ...

When I say that something is morally good, it means I judge it to be morally good. That's circular. You can't define "good" by using the word "good." Sorry, I keep forgetting that you don't know what the word, "good", means. He doesn't know what any word means except i...

What do you have in mind? What are these "aspects" you think I'm missing out on? ...depending upon speaker "the creater of the universe" could be a reference to Jehova, or to Allah, or to 70 million milk maids... If that's what you mean, then it's even more clear that Atheists d...

So I ask again: if you have any contrary opinion about that, let's mutually inspect your grounds for it now. "God" as a concept is arguably more than just the name of an object. Your explanation doesn't really cover those aspects. What do you have in mind? What are these "aspects&quo...

In my experience, I would have to disagree. Consider it this way. Suppose I ask somebody, "Do you know Flash?" And they say, "Sure: Flash is a middle-aged woman from Idaho. She has three cats and a hobby farm." And I say, "Well, that's not who Flash is, to me. Flash is an e...

The sematic properties of the concept "God" are not different for an atheist than they are for a theist. In my experience, I would have to disagree. Consider it this way. Suppose I ask somebody, "Do you know Flash?" And they say, "Sure: Flash is a middle-aged woman from Ida...

The sematic properties of the concept "God" are not different for an atheist than they are for a theist. In my experience, I would have to disagree. Consider it this way. Suppose I ask somebody, "Do you know Flash?" And they say, "Sure: Flash is a middle-aged woman from Ida...

It is different from the way that people who speak about God as unknown to them speak about "good." That much is true. But then, such also use the word "God" differently from how Theists use it, too. For when they use it, they use it to refer to an entity they take to be merely ...

They cannot hate Jews in the name of Jesus or Christianity. The terms of contract for a Christian are only in the Gospels i.e. direct from Jesus from God. The OT, Acts, Espistles are not part of the terms of the contract, they merely act as a guide. As usual you reference some idiot ideal in your h...

it may be noncognitive or at least different from the way moral language is actually spoken. It is different from the way that people who speak about God as unknown to them speak about "good." That much is true. But then, such also use the word "God" differently from how Theists...

If this were the 1960s and the government was going after people protesting the Vietnam War, would you be standing by the dissenters then? Is "dissent" your goal or is justice your goal? To the dissenters, dissent is justice. It appears then that you have constructed a false dichotomy. Pl...