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Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
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RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable.
(October 22, 2014 at 7:24 pm)Lek Wrote: When many people testify to something it causes others to think that there might be something to it. If I get the testimony of 100 people that the food at a particular restaurant is delicious and the price was right, I'd be led to try that restaurant. If I then discovered for myself that the food was delicious, then I'd most likely go back.

But that's my point: you don't have that testimony. You're attempting to sweep all the contradictions and differing interpretations under the rug and pretend they don't exist: an accurate version of your restaurant analogy would be that you have one hundred people, and they all claim the restaurant serves different things, and some deny that the restaurant even serves the favorite dishes that other people recommended, and nobody can agree on what kind of restaurant it is.

Stop pretending that you have anything like a unified, consistent set of testimony regarding god, Lek. It's dishonest, and the 30,000 denominations of your one religion easily put the lie to it.

Quote:I believe that people of all faiths can have real experiences with God, even though their doctrines may be incorrect. God calls us all to him and will not reject anyone who faithfully seeks him. It's my belief that if you truly seek God you will find him.

... But you'll not all find the same god, which kinda hints that what they're finding isn't god at all, but just whatever pretense they wanted to find. Dodgy
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RE: Atheism liberated me from pointless thinking,and made my life enjoyable. - by Esquilax - October 23, 2014 at 10:32 am

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