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OP:  Christians deceitfully stole the winter solistice celebrations for the birth of Christ.  This proves Christians are devious and making everything up.

PP:  Who cares if they co-opted it to make new followers comfortable?

OP:  It was deceitful and you know it.

PP:  Actually, the solistice was chosen as the day for Jesus's birth for symbolic reasons.  Early spring for his death is also symbolic--re-enforces the message the Christ died so that we may live.

OP: That doesn't prove anything about Christ or Christianity is true.

PP:  No it doesn't--just providing the reason why Christian liturgy puts Christmas is in December and Easter in Spring.  This is part of an academic discussion of how the liturgical calendar reflects symbolism of Christ drawing upon the natural world.

OP: Can't be an academic discussion because it doesn't involve proof of God. [/quote]

Understand that, in your little mind, it was easy to draw these conclusions but--as you were informed before-- you are arguing with more than one person, so this is kinda bs. 
 
Making crazy grand conclusions comes quite easily to you, doesn't it. You know the conclusory impulse activates reward centers in your brain. It is very similar to what leads easily-influenced people to accept some dogma or "truth" and allows you to bypass the burden of critical thinking. [/quote]

PP, you're the one who's making it up as you go along. 
- 1st PP provided an outline of that: how your claim about "deceit" being involved in the holiday timing was debunked, so you switched up the subject and demanded proof of God. 
- your 1st sentence above is a non sequitur that makes zero sense. How does the number of atheists here affect whether or not 1st PP's argument is bs? It doesn't, the number of atheists here is irrelevant. 1st PP is still correct that your claim of deceit has been debunked.
- calling people names doesn't support your argument, it just makes you look nasty.

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^ Should add, your reliance on insults, non sequiturs, reductio ad absurdums, changing the subject, ignorance of the most basic tenets of the religion you're criticizing, dragging up 3-day-old posts, cutting and pasting stuff from atheist websites without bothering to understand it first (the Horus and Mithras stuff as one example), all of this demonstrates precious little "critical thinking" skill on your part. You appear to make almost zero effort to build your own arguments.[/quote]

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