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This is completely off-topic for this site but I just wanted to let everyone based in Australia near Sydney know that there is a new force in Cup Cake production coming. They are Coochy Cakes Australia. I’ve eaten some of the Cup Cakes, they are delicious.

If there was no Sin would Jesus still exist?

a good use for time travel

Also in film form!:

although with a slightly different take…

God Loves Atheists because they don't bug him

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During a 2 player ranting session with a god fearing Christian the subject of miracles came up, and being the good little troll that I am, I decided that definitions were required. I asked the repository of all human knowledge

Magic

1. any art that invokes supernatural powers
2. magic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
3. charming: possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; “charming incantations”; “magic signs that protect …

Miracle

1. any amazing or wonderful occurrence
2. a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent

NB: not a really good argument for anything, just interesting, I suppose

It is difficult to falsify claims about the existence of God, because very few people are willing or able to provide a complete definition of what God is, of the nature of God or of any kinds of tests or measurements how’s results can’t be explained through more simple naturalistic means.

Most definitions are simply re-labeling of other ideas or incomplete comparisons…

“god is bigger than you” – An elephant is bigger than me.

“god is love” – no, love is love… we already have a word for that.

“god knows all” – I can’t ask him, and receive an unambiguous answer.

All these statements have their own problems… and few of them can be falsified…

“God” tends to change between people, ranges from a personal god that knows you an listens to prayers, all the way back go a pantheist god who is more or less a representation of mystery and the unknown in the universe.

Who is your god and more over, what makes you sure of that?

The Oldest Bible in the world is now online and searchable.

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book

Check it out now: http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/

Just a quick link to an article over on The Lippard Blog about Scientology.

The St. Petersburg Times is running a multi-part story on their allegations of corruption and abuse inside the Church of Scientology, confirming and expanding upon stories that have long been staples of online criticisms of the church.

I suggest checking it out, rather interesting details about the Cult Church of Scientology.