RE: I don't believe in Christianity primarily because of the brain
September 12, 2016 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2016 at 10:47 am by Whateverist.)
(September 5, 2016 at 7:54 pm)Magilla Wrote:(September 5, 2016 at 12:04 pm)SerenelyBlue Wrote: There are many reasons why I don't believe in Christianity. The one that makes the most sense is that there is no soul. Without a soul there is no heaven, hell or anything to do wit spirit.
There iw no use for a soul. Modern science is showing that the brain is responsible for all the functions human bodies have. I evolved into a complex individual, but when my brain ceases to work, I cease to exist. Christianity is just myth and superstition.
Do you agree?
Yes, and see the YouTube video below for a talk by Sean Carrol, on this :-
Also if evolution is true, (and I have no reason to reject it), and therefore, there was no Adam and Eve in a garden of Eden, then there was no original sin, and therefore nothing for any "Christ" to save us from. So regardless of the existence of an historical figure (or not), called Jesus, any such character could not save us from sin, because the whole premise is a load of bovine fertiliser, (fertilizer in U.S.).
Hope this isn't too annoying but I'm just now getting around to this thread. So here is a flash back to page one. Magilla, if you're still in the building, I find it odd to contrast the truth of a science claim with the literary truth of a fictional claim. The implications of evolution cannot undermine the garden of Eden story anymore than it can Moby Dick. The 'fall' of man from a state of nature is about our acquiring the capacity to set aside our time-honed mammalian responses and make another choice. We must leave the garden because we have to that extent left a state of nature ourselves. As for being saved by 'Christ' that too would have to be understood allegorically as achieving some rapprochement with our repressed animal nature.
What is a load of bovine fertilizer is the literalization of the story of the fall. The garden is an idea. The alienation from the garden is another idea. Becoming whole again is still another idea. But neither the garden of Eden nor the serpent nor the Christ are literal objects in the physical cosmos. They are elements of the mind, not the cosmos.
