Or left those parts out altogether.
why do unbelievers...
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Or left those parts out altogether.
You are a monotheists correct? It seems from the word GO Shinto religion will contradict your belief system.
Or do you mean other things, like, don't covet your neighbors wife (or perhaps God should have said? don't covet your neighbors wives - they were polygamists after all), well, I think those sorts of cultural aspects are universal.
Or both. (Without the altogether.)
In particular, that theists rarely scrutinize other theists with the same fervor they do atheists.
Not upon reviewing your posts.
The history of theistic intolerance is well known.
Actually, the onus of 'proof' fall to you, who supports an unfounded idea.
But simply for the sake of argument, it's quite simply really: the concept 'god' does not predate man.
QED
If we accept the Big Bang theory, the Evolution theory, science and history (as you imply to), then those concepts "don't predate man" either - in the sense that there were no concepts of "science", "evolution", "history", "universe", "space", "chemistry", "physics" that "predate man"... Unless of course you think that early bacteria had invented those concepts and made use of them ...
Two reasons. Referring to God with a specific gender implies we have decided something about your God, and we haven't, we don't believe in it, so we haven't assigned a gender, or even if the concept of gender should apply. It's still up in the air.
Second reason, it's a load of patriarchal bullshit.
Jan, try and comprehend. NO WE ARE NOT MAKING ANY STATEMENT.
We are being non-committal, hence our reluctance to assign gender.
What the fuck is it with theists, that NOT doing one thing, becomes DOING something else? Why can't you simply understand the concept of NOT.
It is a common sense concept that one either does one thing or another,
one cannot not do something, not even for a second.
We have verbs and other words to describe what we do every second of the day: e.g. we sleep, we eat, we drink, we do, we avoid, ... We always do something, even if it's just sitting around and waiting.
What a load of crap. I'm not walking, right now, and I have been not walking for about an hour now. That 'something' I'm not doing, is walking.
I think you mean it is impossible to not do _anything_
Language is important, use it carefully.
I reiterate, not doing one thing, does not in any way, imply doing something else.
The Holy Babble says to preach to animals.
My view also. It's seems impossible tho for most humans.
Is that what St Francis of Assisi did?
What is the "Holy Babble", and why have you asked if I preach to animals??
If you're gonna ask a question, then ask it in our mutual language, and if asked to clarify something, please do so if you are genuine.
I await clarification
jan.