Catholic church at it again. This time Holland.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Notice that the harder they try to make God believable, the lamer it gets?

[bdelugma]

I humbly suggest this thread be moved to the Twilight Zone.

Oh, and what you call "the poverty of imagination argument" already has a name. In Latin, it is argumentum ad ignorantiam, or in English, an argument from ignorance. Please to be not renaming fallacies which already have perfectly good names. Bitte.

[Seth]

Indeed, bullshit. So quit citing bullshit. God does not have to be supernatural in order to exist. God need only be undetectable and untestable by our paltry, primitive human intellects and science. Therefore, you cannot deny the existence of God based on a false claim that God is supernatural, not even such a claim made by a theist, because that's just another iteration of the Atheist's Fallacy.

Not supernatural, yet undetectable... Then it's just a silly waste of time to say anything about it.

Just because YOU can't detect it doesn't make it a "silly waste of time to say anything about it." With that sort of attitude, the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the presently-undetectable Higgs Boson would not exist, now would it?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Imaginary friends. Really?

[Seth]

I humbly suggest this thread be moved to the Twilight Zone.

Oh, and what you call "the poverty of imagination argument" already has a name. In Latin, it is argumentum ad ignorantiam, or in English, an argument from ignorance. Please to be not renaming fallacies which already have perfectly good names. Bitte.

I prefer "poverty of imagination" because it's distinguishable from simple ignorance. Poverty of imagination is a mental deficit that keeps the person from becoming educated or expanding their mental and intellectual horizons. Ignorance, on the other hand, is a minor glitch that can be easily resolved through education. Poverty of imagination is not as bad as stupidity because stupid people tend to be stupid about pretty much everything due to a mental defect, whereas poverty of imagination is less debilitating and more easily cured than stupidity.

Sometimes.

Some other times, not so much.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

So, folks here have mental deficits?

[Horwood Beer-Master]

So, folks here have mental deficits?

Seth does. That last post was a childish incoherent rant, I'm not bothering with it.

[Seth]

So, folks here have mental deficits?

Shoe + Fits = Wear it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This is why we can't have nice threads.

[Seth]

This is why we can't have nice threads.

You certainly are. You shit all over them so we have to throw them away.

I haven't heard even a partially intelligent statement from you in months. I doubt you're even capable of rational thought, much less reasoned debate.

[bdelugma]

I prefer "poverty of imagination" because it's distinguishable from simple ignorance. Poverty of imagination is a mental deficit that keeps the person from becoming educated or expanding their mental and intellectual horizons. Ignorance, on the other hand, is a minor glitch that can be easily resolved through education. Poverty of imagination is not as bad as stupidity because stupid people tend to be stupid about pretty much everything due to a mental defect, whereas poverty of imagination is less debilitating and more easily cured than stupidity.

May God have mercy on your soul if you should attempt to make substantive use of this.

[Robert_S]

Indeed, bullshit. So quit citing bullshit. God does not have to be supernatural in order to exist. God need only be undetectable and untestable by our paltry, primitive human intellects and science. Therefore, you cannot deny the existence of God based on a false claim that God is supernatural, not even such a claim made by a theist, because that's just another iteration of the Atheist's Fallacy.

Not supernatural, yet undetectable... Then it's just a silly waste of time to say anything about it.

Just because YOU can't detect it doesn't make it a "silly waste of time to say anything about it." With that sort of attitude, the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the presently-undetectable Higgs Boson would not exist, now would it?

Undetectable in practice, or in principle?

[JimC]

I prefer "poverty of imagination" because it's distinguishable from simple ignorance. Poverty of imagination is a mental deficit that keeps the person from becoming educated or expanding their mental and intellectual horizons. Ignorance, on the other hand, is a minor glitch that can be easily resolved through education. Poverty of imagination is not as bad as stupidity because stupid people tend to be stupid about pretty much everything due to a mental defect, whereas poverty of imagination is less debilitating and more easily cured than stupidity.

May God have mercy on your soul if you should attempt to make substantive use of this.

Lucky for Seth that both god and soul are imaginary...

[Robert_S]

What is soul????

[JimC]

A term used by the religious to exert control over others...