(November 2, 2014 at 1:16 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Lets take away all of the fluff and feathers for a minute. Let's take away all of the technical babble, all of the rhetoric for just a second.
I can't speak for every religion, but I am a Christian theist. Now what does that imply? Well, that would mean that I believe Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of mankind, and that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
That is basically my belief in a nut shell. Now, if you are an atheist, you may find my beliefs laughable, sickening, stupid, etc....which is fine, Christianity isn't for everyone because after all, Jesus said "But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it." (Matt 7:14).
But as an atheist, here is what you have to believe...you have to believe that billions of years ago before humanity, dead matter was floating around in space...and for whatever reason, suddenly, this dead matter "came to life". Not only did it come to life, but it came to life and began thinking, talking, and having sex.
Just think about that for a second. This non-living material suddenly CAME TO LIFE. For the life of me, I just can't get myself to believe that, even if I tried. I just don't understand how naturalism/atheism is a more reasonable position than theism.
You have to believe that a process that can't think or see, created consciousness. So consciousness came from a process that can't think??
I just don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
No, my atheism is simply a lack of faith in gods.
My rationality leads me to believe that it makes more sense that a massive vacuum fluctuation brought about our universe, than to believe that an invisible guy in the sky created a garden with fruit that could teach people about morality and let them live forever, who also made those people, and the talking snake who seduced them, who then punished them all to death for not knowing right from wrong, who then sent his own son/himself to somehow wipe away their "crimes" with his tortuous death ... and who then turns around and says he loves us like a father.
No matter what you say about my atheism, your Christianity sounds like a load of horseshit, no matter the pretty words you use to gussy it up.