RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
November 22, 2017 at 7:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 7:09 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Whateverist Wrote: For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.
(July 4, 2014 at 1:48 am)Purplundy Wrote: No, you're making just enough out of this, and that is an important question that I need to answer.
I know that a Jesus figure did exist and certain people wrote about him.
Did he rise from the dead? I don't know, he hasn't proven that he did, to me anyways.
Worst case scenario: He didn't. His body decomposed and is humus on its way to the planet's core. That would be disappointing; he seemed like such a nice guy. But it has no effect on my life; the Christian practice of loving your neighbor is not affected by whether or not a Jew walked outside of a cave on Sunday morning. That doesn't even mean that what he taught was false; I'd still agree that we need to help the poor for reasons other than, "Jesus said so." To think otherwise would be an appeal to hypocrisy.
When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book.
Oh I never responded to make it clear that I have never said that we should close these forums to theists and I think that would be awful. I just don't think we should take their religious beliefs seriously when they talk about them, any more than we would take an adult who still believed in Santa seriously when they talked about their belief in Santa. And I can no longer sincerely take their beliefs any more seriously than that without being dishonest which I am unwilling to do and be.
And far from epic, that post is substanceless as fuck, if a Christian truly believes this "When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book." then they are someone who identifies as a Christian but is no more Christian than I am. It's vapid bunk.