(January 1, 2017 at 3:22 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(January 1, 2017 at 2:51 pm)Astonished Wrote: I had never seen that comparison between Harris and Stiller, and I don't think they look anything alike, so that's lost on me. Now, the Bush and Chimpanzee meme, THAT I can totally see.
But Hitchens, AronRa, anyone I've mentioned was probably referred to down the line in some way. I'm just not a big Ben Stiller fan.
Never heard of Stiller. I was saying Hitchens and Stimbo (a member here) look alike, or so his friends tell him.
Back to your point, the things Christians tell us to excuse the fact that things don't happen in real life the way they do in the bible have driven many away from the church. For me, it wasn't one thing, but over and over again. The killer I will always remember, a guy who called himself a prophet came to my church and told me that the bible says faith comes by hearing, and since I'm deaf, faith can't come to me. My pastor just stood there grinning like an idiot.
That kind of thing is what prevented me from ever giving it a second chance. I would ask, if Jesus would go around healing the blind, wasn't he just playing favorites? Why do it for them and not everybody who is blind? If there's no level playing field, it's impossible for god to love us all equally, and if he doesn't love us all equally, that isn't a perfectly loving god. Their attempts to over-reach on god's perfection and benevolence backfired as defenses for faith in me.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
