[quote]Sloth wrote:
You guys are a minority, right now. But don’t worry, you’ll have us in concentration camps, one day. But seriously, how is anyone knocking on a door a zealot? I get JW’s every once in a while. I’m not a JW, yet it doesn’t bother me a bit. It’s actually kind of nice seeing polite and groomed young people, for a change.[/quote]
Atheists don’t have a malevolent sky princess telling us to convert or kill people who don’t believe the same as us.[/quote]
I don’t know about that. Who tells you to bash other people’s God? Is that part of the atheists religion? Or, is it just something that most of you have in common? Does constantly showing your intolerance for religion make you feel all warm and fuzzy? Why the constant sarcasm about God?
What is your motivation? [/quote]
I hope the conversational intolerance I show toward religion will spread and be part of the process that will destroy your somewhat dangerous way of thinking.[/quote]
Well good luck, just remember your message has to move faster than your population’s death rate.
heres the answer to end all the arguments: everybody has different views on religion. everybody has different views on races/racism. get over it. its never gonna end and we might as well just deal with it. being a christian, of course i believe that christianity is the “best” way to go, but there are 4 billion other people that might disagree… its watever really. people just need to grow the fuck up.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
I hope the conversational intolerance I show toward religion will spread and be part of the process that will destroy your somewhat dangerous way of thinking.[/quote]
Please don’t destroy our somewhat dangerous way of thinking. No, not that! Please, your conversational intolerance is too much. Too…much…conversational intolerance. Somewhat dangerous way of thinking…failing…fading. Arrggh!
[quote]Makavali wrote:
I hope the conversational intolerance I show toward religion will spread and be part of the process that will destroy your somewhat dangerous way of thinking.[/quote]
Please don’t destroy our somewhat dangerous way of thinking. No, not that! Please, your conversational intolerance is too much. Too…much…conversational intolerance. Somewhat dangerous way of thinking…failing…fading. Arrggh![/quote]
[quote]Makavali wrote:
I hope the conversational intolerance I show toward religion will spread and be part of the process that will destroy your somewhat dangerous way of thinking.[/quote]
Please don’t destroy our somewhat dangerous way of thinking. No, not that! Please, your conversational intolerance is too much. Too…much…conversational intolerance. Somewhat dangerous way of thinking…failing…fading. Arrggh![/quote]
Joke all you want, it’s just a matter of time.[/quote]Hmmmm, I think people have been saying that for like dozens of centuries now. Saul of Tarsus was en route to doing his part to fulfill your dream when an encounter with the living Christ transformed him into Paul the apostle and he wound up writing 13 books of the New Testament and playing a foundational role in mightily building the early church. God does indeed have a sense of humor and statements like yours are proof positive. The joke will be on you. Unless of course you are one of His in which case the joy and peace that awaits you will cause you to praise Him that while you were once this lost you are now raised together with Him living His resurrected life.
Philipians. 2:9-11
That’s really all ya got huh? Whatever did the church universal do before you and Sapolsky, not to mention the vernerable “Robert Lee” on facebook, came along to annunciate the majestic mysteries of the triune God? A couple millenia now we’ve been waiting breathlessly to be told that three persons in one being is intellectually inexplicable. Thanks. =]
[quote]ephrem wrote:
…basically: “I’m not crazy!”, says the crazy person. And the crazy person is you T, but i like you anyway…[/quote]
Crazy suggests abnormal. Not the norm. But, worldwide, religious-spiritual belief is the norm. Show a little gratitude that we haven’t had you committed.
[quote]ephrem wrote:
…basically: “I’m not crazy!”, says the crazy person. And the crazy person is you T, but i like you anyway…[/quote]
Crazy suggests abnormal. Not the norm. But, worldwide, religious-spiritual belief is the norm. Show a little gratitude that we haven’t had you committed.[/quote]
…i’d say it’s a good indication of how screwed-up humanity is, actually…
[quote]ephrem wrote:
…basically: “I’m not crazy!”, says the crazy person. And the crazy person is you T, but i like you anyway…[/quote]
Crazy suggests abnormal. Not the norm. But, worldwide, religious-spiritual belief is the norm. Show a little gratitude that we haven’t had you committed.[/quote]LOL!
[quote]ephrem wrote:
…basically: “I’m not crazy!”, says the crazy person. And the crazy person is you T, but i like you anyway…[/quote]
Crazy suggests abnormal. Not the norm. But, worldwide, religious-spiritual belief is the norm. Show a little gratitude that we haven’t had you committed.[/quote]
Insanity by majority. If 99% of the world believed the earth was flat, 99% of the world is still wrong.
[quote]ephrem wrote:
…basically: “I’m not crazy!”, says the crazy person. And the crazy person is you T, but i like you anyway…[/quote]
Crazy suggests abnormal. Not the norm. But, worldwide, religious-spiritual belief is the norm. Show a little gratitude that we haven’t had you committed.[/quote]
Insanity by majority. If 99% of the world believed the earth was flat, 99% of the world is still wrong.[/quote]
Now all you have to do is prove that God doesn’t exist. We can orbit the earth, putting any real debate to bed, so not a good comparison. The existence, or non-existence, of my God is outside of such ability to falsify.
Honestly, I’m a bit bored with scienctistas, psuedo-scientists, and scientists who step out of their realm. Science deals with what is, or at least should be, falsifiable. Good science is deaf, dumb, and mute to the existence or non-existence of God(s). Nor does it have anything to offer about morality. After all, science not only gives us medical radioisotopes, but also the nuclear bomb. Not only anesthetics and antibiotics, but also chemical weapons. It gives us not only drug trials that offer hope, but has also given us medical-scientific trials that are immoral, in the name of science.
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Now all you have to do is prove that God doesn’t exist.[/quote]
You’re making the claim, it is your responsibility to prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Also, the claims of religion directly step into the realm of science. If you want to make claims about parthenogenesis among humans, then you have stepped directly into the realm of science. The idea that the two can be separated is ludicrous at best.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
You’re making the claim[/quote]
God isn’t something I can measure. As I wrote above, science can’t prove or disprove a God(s). But we can diagnose insanity. And behind that, there’s your implied claim that God doesn’t exist (hence, insanity).
[quote]Makavali wrote:
If you want to make claims about parthenogenesis among humans, then you have stepped directly into the realm of science. The idea that the two can be separated is ludicrous at best.[/quote]
Now you’re dealing with specific physical claims. And that’s as far as science goes. For instance, science can refute a 6000 year old earth, but it says nothing on how Genesis is to be read and understood in the first place. A literal creation account, or a revalation about God, using a familiar cosmology known during the time? It refutes a 6000 year old earth, that’s it.
