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This is assuming that God exists...

Which is NOT the question. Please answer without some random copy and paste bible verse and use critical thinking to persuade us.

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That is not an atheist...

An atheist has been exposed to a 'higher being' or 'god' and has DENIED that such being exists

Supporting Evidence: Definition of Atheist (dictionary.reference.com)
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If this candidate held the same values POLITICALLY as me NOT RELIGIOUSLY, then i would. Makes common sense. Why would you vote for someone who you think might let their religious beliefs cloud their thinking?

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Seriously dude? This site is not a joking site. This site is for the people that are trying to actually think critically and ethically.

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First of all, the best source of your morals is to decide by yourself. Use some critical thinking to really dig deep and ask, "Is this what I believe in?"

The bible is a horrible source for morals. It has descrimination, corrutption, slavery, and what would be considered murder by today's accepted values.

The bible says multiple times that people should be stoned to death, crucified, etc. for some pretty minor crimes.

MastrDebator(7) Clarified
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I am not saying what I believe....

I am saying what atheists believe.......

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No, I do not believe that Sterling should be forced to sell his team.

Allow me to show you a hypothetical situation. If someone were to buy a robot (I know this sounds crazy, but bear with me) and enters it into the robot league of fighting! After this robot has been established and is now famous and really good, the owner says that people that were born with mental disabilities are the scum of the earth. The robot league then says, "Now you must sell your robot to someone else, the robot may still compete, but not with you as the owner because we do not believe the same as you do."

THIS IS WRONG! You can NOT force someone to believe what you do or PUNISH them for not believing what you do... I am looking at you NBA!

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I think you misunderstand...

Atheists reject the existence of a higher being.

Deists on the other hand believe that there is a higher being but they see flaws/don't believe in the gods/religions that are in place in the current society.

Although a lot of people say, "I do not know if there is a god or not" or, "I think there is a god but I just can not decide which religion is correct," label themselves as atheists. In reality the first is agnostic by definition and the second is deist by definition.

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I am not completely sure what is meant by "Global Language".

Does it mean, "Do the majority of the people in the world speak english as a native language?"

Or does it mean, "How dominant is English compared to other languages in various parts in the world?"

The first would be fairly simple to answer. It is just statistics. Chinese is the first ranked language in terms of native speakers, Spanish is the second, ENGLISH is the third. But this does not show how the language itself is dominant in the world. Chinese is the first because there are simply just more chinese children born.

In terms of the second question, it is much harder to analyze and understand. By dominant it means how much of a presence does the language have in places around the world. By that definition, English is the 'Global Language'. Simply because if one were to travel to every country, town, city, village, etc., they would see that the majority have signs, ads, people speaking, etc. in the native language as well as English. English is just a powerful language in the world today.

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Absolutely not.

Rules were made by the authority, and the majority of the time they are made to help the general populus affected by these rules for all the possible situations the authority can foresee.

For example, if a country, let's say Mars, is just becoming established and the government is working the constitutions/rules etc. and one of the basic rules is that, "One shall not harm another," meaning that no one can harm anyone else. Well, then a week later in the country of Mars there was an incident. A man has been murdered and it was done in front of many trusted witnesses. This man pleads INNOCENT. Although he admits that he did not follow the rule of not harming another person, he did it out of (BUM BUM BUMMMMM) PROTECTION. He purposely broke the rule and protected himself by killing the man that was about to kill him. Everyone/everything makes mistakes. EVEN the government. It doesn't matter what happened to the man, but it does matter that he did the RIGHT thing. This does not mean you can go around thinking, "THE RULES ARE ALL WRONG AND I AM CORRECT!" and just do whatever you want.

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This is not the question. This is asking if someone is to obey them all the time by their OWN belief. The question is not, "Should their be exceptions to the rule."

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Atheists do regard god/God as imaginary. There is no evidence FOR god being an actual being but that is not this debate. Atheists do not believe in a god or higher being. This means that Atheists believe it was brought upon this world by human IMAGINATION. Nothing came to the human race and said, "THERE IS A GOD!" Therefore, atheists believe that god is imaginary

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I completely agree with you. It ALL depends on who is using it and how they are using it. Yes, if you just google, "What is the answer to x-7=42," then you will not get smarter. Yet, you do not get more 'stupid' either. Given that "more stupid" means a decrease in intellectual thinking and brain function. It simply makes us lazier if you use it like that. To increase, or make oneself less 'stupid', the intellectual thinking do not just find the answer to x-7=42, find out WHY that is the answer and why the math ACTUALLY works. It is really hard to put your response in the affirmative or negative column because it really does depend.

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Google is not making us 'Stupid'.

This is quite a common misconception that is mostly held by the older audiences. The fact of the matter is, is that it just expands our resources for learning. If i were to state what google did to the mass public, I would say that if the average viewer is responsible and has positive research skills (knowing when the site is not credible and knowing how to search out those sites) then i would say that google is supporting the intellectual and curious factor in what is most of today's people. Thus, google is doing quite the opposite than making us 'stupid', it is actually increase the depth of our knowledge on a lot of things that we do not just trip upon in our regular lives



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