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Don't Eat The Sausages in Canada

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imported_tajmahal said:
I'm a Christian, i'm not an in-the-closet anything. Not even an in-the-closet Trump supporter, i'm open about my politics.
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Either prove it..

And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
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or call your own God a liar when he wrote the above passage....


If you demonstrated those things to me, I would become a Christian myself.
 
NAC4EV said:
1 in 5 sausages tested across Canada contained different meat than labelled, study finds


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A new Canadian study has found that 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across the country contained meats that were not listed on the label.


The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Guelph, examined 100 randomly purchased sausages that were labelled as containing just one ingredient: either beef, pork, turkey or chicken.

The team examined the sausages using a method called “DNA barcode” testing that revealed one in five of the sausages included some off-label ingredients.


“The vast majority -- 95 per cent of the sausages we tested -- had the species that was on the label in them,” Robert Hanner, the lead author of the study, told CTV News Channel Friday.

“But about 20 per cent had certain amounts of other animals in them. We found that some of the beef sausages contained pork; some of the pork sausages contained beef.”

Of the 100 sausages tested
  • 7 of 27 beef sausages contained pork
  • 1 of 38 pure pork sausages contained horse meat
  • 2 of 38 pure pork sausages contained beef
  • 4 of 20 chicken sausages contained turkey
  • 1 of 20 chicken sausages had beef
  • 5 of 15 turkey sausages studied contained no turkey at all. They were entirely chicken meat.




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I've no doubt it's not not just Canada, no telling what's in ours either. Fish is another big problem, a lot of it being sold isn't what it's actually labeled as. That's a lot harder to tackle though because it's filleted and froze on the ship and at that point it can be really hard to tell what it is
 
bshole said:
What would it take to make you a Christian? For me, all it would take is evidence. I certainly wouldn't want to burn in a lake of fire for eternity.
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Thats one of the fallacies of enternal damnation. It is just not possible. Unless the clerks of hell decides to imbue you with total recall and infinite data storage capacity(and then you still have to deal with information entropy and all that wich drives us right into "can god create a rock so heavy he cannot lift it" territory.), there is no such thing as eternal damnation - to the human mind anyway. The neural net can only contain so much data and if all you pour in is a pit of fire then thats all its gonna contain... In essense you will have vacated that neural net in what.. the first 100 years? and only your old shell would remain. Now 100 years is a long time but it sure as *hell* aint forever 😉.
As always apply simple logic to religion and it all falls apart.
Of course I am still agnostic, you could reveal that undeniable proof that flips me, sure.
(this is my own spin from working with artificial neural nets and insight into the biological counterpart, so take it at that)
 
cytg111 said:
Thats one of the fallacies of enternal damnation. It is just not possible.
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Christian response: Is it possible that in all of the knowledge in the universe that you are unaware of, there is a something that proves it is not a fallacy? CHECKMATE you dirty atheist!
 
bshole said:
Christian response: Is it possible that in all of the knowledge in the universe that you are unaware of, there is a something that proves it is not a fallacy? CHECKMATE you dirty atheist!
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But is it possible that in all of the knowledge in the universe that you are unaware of, there is NOT a something that proves it is not a fallacy?
- yeayea I know how it goes.
 
bshole said:
Either prove it..



or call your own God a liar when he wrote the above passage....


If you demonstrated those things to me, I would become a Christian myself.
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So all it takes is a few magic tricks and you will bow down in holy reverence like a true believer to someone who claims to be a god?

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.

12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
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Those results aren't surprising, as the perception of religious believers as morally superior is pervasive, and the vast majority of humans being of some kind of religious affiliation or influence at some time in their lives, including the societies we live in being influenced by religion.

If someone posed the same hypothetical to me, catholic first, Muslim second, and protestant third would be my answers. Atheist wouldn't even be on the radar.

And lol at cbn comments.
 
1prophet said:
So all it takes is a few magic tricks and you will bow down in holy reverence like a true believer to someone who claims to be a god?
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I know there must be a certain threshold which would cause me to believe in a particular God and that threshold would be evidence based.. For example, if Christians began healing amputees and quadriplegics or moving mountains with their faith, I am sure it would go a long way to changing my mind. You are correct however, the drinking poison stuff could be faked and I would probably assume as much.
If their God had been smart, he would have given all of us an innate knowledge of him and of the correct interpretation of his book. He would not base reward/punishment on how gullible we were. Also since we probably don't have free will and all are just running programs that he installed, it makes no sense to punish us for something he programmed into our dna.
 
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