mattmahar
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`Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.' John 5:14
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Post by mattmahar on Nov 22, 2008 10:19:07 GMT -5
Dad links son's suicide to 'The God Delusion' A New York man is linking the suicide of his 22-year-old son, a military veteran who had bright prospects in college, to the anti-Christian book "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins after a college professor challenged the son to read it. "Three people told us he had taken a biology class and was doing well in it, but other students and the professor were really challenging my son, his faith. They didn't like him as a Republican, as a Christian, and as a conservative who believed in intelligent design," the grief-stricken father, Keith Kilgore, told WND about his son, Jesse. "This professor either assigned him to read or challenged him to read a book, 'The God Delusion,' by Richard Dawkins," he said. Jesse Kilgore committed suicide in October by walking into the woods near his New York home and shooting himself. Keith Kilgore said he was shocked because he believed his son was grounded in Christianity, had blogged against abortion and for family values, and boasted he'd been debating for years. Source: www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81459
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Post by Kureji on Nov 24, 2008 12:59:40 GMT -5
sad truth is that alot of people use God as a way to keep their life having some kind of meaning. I have actually met quite a few people that told me if they found out God wasn't real that they would just take their life because life wasn't worth it if there wasn't a God. This is a good reason why I let most people have their delusions, unless of course they go after me first.
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Post by Jesse Morrell on Nov 24, 2008 13:17:52 GMT -5
Atheism kills people. Who knows how many lives atheism has claimed.
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Severian
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Master of l?esprit d?escalier.
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Post by Severian on Dec 17, 2008 8:18:10 GMT -5
Strange, out of all the many millions of people, myself included, who have read TGD, he seems to be the only one to have done so.
Statistically, that amounts to nothing.
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Post by valentine on Dec 30, 2008 20:56:55 GMT -5
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