[Vasu]

Like what? o_o

i've kept up in most current ones, like the stalinism one and the starvation one... people just stopped bothering to post in the latter of the two... i finally just got tired of all the constant repeating of topics from both sides in the religion one...

You might want to check it again, because I don't remember you replying about God's malevolence thing, and you also did not adequately differentiate between free will and impersonal-ness. You said that he might want us to "come to him", and didn't explain what that meant. When I pointed out that even Jesus' sacrifice was unnecessary, you just trailed off.

And you also reverted to saying that you believe in God because of the moral ideas present in the Bible, which can be exercised without the help of a deity.

But then again, it's entirely your choice if you want to stop posting in a thread.


And one last thing, I don't see what your problem is with things being repeated. A debate goes like this.

A: I hold position 1.
B: I hold position 2.

A: Position 2 is wrong because of x and y.
B: But because of p and q, position 2 can be right.
A: I refute p and q because of r and s, therefore position 2 is false.

Now just because A has restated that position 2 is false again, doesn't mean the debate is getting repetitive and circular.