ColinEssex
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Then we will have the $4m in the bank earning huge interest per month. That sounds cool to mescott-atkinson said:Maybe we should all become Amish
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Then we will have the $4m in the bank earning huge interest per month. That sounds cool to mescott-atkinson said:Maybe we should all become Amish
*shudder* And it's not exactly a commonly held view, is it?Rich said:Christ I think we're in agreement on a topic
Quite a remarkable observation, if I may say so. I personally don't think that God is a complete fabrication, but I do agree that the vast majority of what people say/think/believe about God is completely made up exactly in the way and for the reasons you describe.TessB said:"His" evolution and ours seem to be too remarkably alike. I think we made god in our own image. Not vice-versa.
KalelGmoon said:Wow a Goddess, ya mind if I come and visit and stuff? your husband Hermes wont mind will he? hehe I love Mythology
Kraj Quite a remarkable observation said:That's because we can't even grasp the concept of an expanding universe or that fact that it's larger than it's life time multiplied by the speed of light allows it to be, but it is.
TessB said:LOL.... kinda wrapped up in Adonis at the moment.
Oh, and sorry about that whole Helen of Troy / Trojan War fiasco.
I was a real bitch then. LMAO
SJ McAbney said:They are daft. If faith is their argument, there's no point talking to them.
No. They can't look at the scientific evidence that evolution is the most likely method of life on Earth and subscribe to the completely illogical notion of a Creator. What makes you think they would accept Jesus didn't exist on presentation of proof? The stupid seed gets planted by religious parents and the child growing up in such an environment that fears to question (perhaps embarrassed they believe something that is so utterly stupid?) will perpetuate such nonsense with their own children.
ShaneMan said:"illogical notion"? I find it impossible to believe that enough components of anything over any amount of time, could finally come together and make a pocket watch much less a human or any kind of animal life. It seems to me that it takes more faith to believe something that illogical! or else it's just any explaination except creation.
The same folks that you accuse of planting "stupid seed" would more than likely have the same opinion about someone who can't see the logic of what they believe. Hopefully, the difference being they would not resort to trying to make them selves look so intelligent while standing on the back of the one they are trying to bring down. Just because someone doesn't argee with your point of view doesn't make them stupid. Just means they don't agree with you. They would also more than likely shake their heads at what your teaching your children and not understand how a parent could do something like that to their child.
What is it about God, Jesus and the Bible that gets under your skin so bad that you resort to belittling anyone who does believe in it?
Depends how you define the word teachShaneMan said:They would also more than likely shake their heads at what your teaching your children and not understand how a parent could do something like that to their child.
ShaneMan said:What is it about God, Jesus and the Bible that gets under your skin so bad that you resort to belittling anyone who does believe in it?
Thats twice in 2 days you've mentioned this phenomenon is it something you have an interest in?nikkypickles said:what it's really like to be a woman with PMT?
ColinEssex said:Thats twice in 2 days you've mentioned this phenomenon is it something you have an interest in?
Col
say no more.nikkypickles said:A suffering of, Col. I have the equivalent of a dammit doll which is getting quite a lot of abuse at the moment
Rich said:Depends how you define the word teach
I used to have a similar opinion of religion as Messrs. McAbney, et al. until someone described it to me in a different way: If you saw someone drowning and you had a life-vest, wouldn't you feel obligated to throw it to them, even if they didn't realise they were in trouble? The same could be applied to religion - just because someone doesn't realise it, doesn't mean that the religious person doesn't wholeheartedly believe that they would benefit from it.ShaneMan said:They would also more than likely shake their heads at what your teaching your children and not understand how a parent could do something like that to their child.
Matt Greatorex said:I used to have a similar opinion of religion as Messrs. McAbney, et al. until someone described it to me in a different way: If you saw someone drowning and you had a life-vest, wouldn't you feel obligated to throw it to them, even if they didn't realise they were in trouble? The same could be applied to religion - just because someone doesn't realise it, doesn't mean that the religious person doesn't wholeheartedly believe that they would benefit from it.As a devout First Aider I can agree with that philosophy up to a point. The counter-argument is, what if they were committing suicide? You'd be pretty ticked off if someone saved you when you know very well what you are doing and what you want the outcome to be. In other words, keep the lifejacket for yourself and MYOBB
(Not a personal attack I hasten to add - just you in the over-generalised sense)
Matt Greatorex said:... If you saw someone drowning and you had a life-vest, wouldn't you feel obligated to throw it to them, even if they didn't realise they were in trouble? The same could be applied to religion - just because someone doesn't realise it, doesn't mean that the religious person doesn't wholeheartedly believe that they would benefit from it...
nikkypickles said:Agreed - and put so much more eloquently than I could
shadow9449 said:Matt:
This analogy is taken slightly out of context but is based on CS Lewis' Mere Christianity.
You raise a great point. Christians who evangelize feel that they are doing good and that it's their job. I don't think that Nikky or others ever would question that or blame them.
However, that doesn't make it any less annoying for people like you or me when we are pestered, nagged, bombarded or even have these people ring our doorbells to bring us their "Good News". As well-meaning as they may be, the reaction of "leave me alone" is going to be the same.
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