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| | | (...) Ha! Well my version would be: "God gives Christians self-worth. Life without God, if examined theologically, is worthless" ROSCO (20 years ago, 11-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: God and worth (was re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred) —Richard Parsons
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| | | | (...) Two very worthy distinctions otherwise lost on many of the most enthusiastic christians. God doesn't seem to do much for athiests. And people who can't find any value in life without the need to resort to a god seem to me to have something of (...) (20 years ago, 11-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: God and worth (was re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred) —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Well, I happen to find the things Man finds worthful completely worthless. Monetary wealth? Success? Fame? Getting laid? Or happiness? Even happiness for its own sake is empty. (...) At the very least, focusing on God turns our narcissistic (...) (20 years ago, 11-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: God and worth (was re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred) —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | (...) The operative word being "I". ROSCO (20 years ago, 11-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: God and worth (was re: The Brick Testament: A Family Stoned and a City Massacred) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Only if you choose to define it that way. I used to work with a Christian who said something like "if emotions are just chemical reactions, aren't they meaningless?" Well, sure. Insofar as I attach no truly transcendent, metaphysical "meaning" (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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