Salandriagado wrote:You have explicitly claimed both of those, repeatedly.
No, I haven't. Astrophysics and evolutionary science are some of my favorite subjects outside of history.
Do you think that the notion that evil people deserve punishment and good people deserve assistance requires justification?
Yes. Yes, I do.
According to conventional morality, say in a random town in New England in the present, are you evil or do you do evil?
Collective punishment is also inherently evil.
I believe it's usually wrong, but it's hardly the worst thing in the world.
I am only debating if it logically follows that ‘within the world of the Biblical reality, the barren state of mankind’s relationship to God is justified by the events which are purported to have directly led up to it.’
Stop lying.
Why do you say that I am lying?
You are an uncritical practitioner of the religion, just one who likes to dress up your lack of critical thought in fancy words, and pay lip-service to critical thought.
You have no grounds for saying that to me. You have actually broken a cardinal rule of debate, both by attacking me personally, and by deliberately lying and making claims about me that I took pains to lay aside in all of my earlier posts. Actually, I have stringently applied myself to show respect to you, and to everyone in this thread, and even if you said the cruelest things imaginable about me, I would still do that kindness for you Salandriagado.
It is not, in any way, consistent with reality, though, so that's utterly irrelevant.
As a matter of fact, the debate won't continue, if you make arguments for the nonexistence of God, because I don't contend that God exists, and I won't try to offer any proof of that you. So in what way have I lied about myself, and about what I am debating?