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Why Christianity?
#11
RE: Why Christianity?
It's upbringing and socialisation, plain and simple. And in most cases there's nothing more to it. Except for those, who occasionally swap religions on the fly.
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#12
RE: Why Christianity?
The strongest argument against god is the amount of different religions and the way they evolve and change over time. What you believe is determined for you by your parents based on your place of birth 99% of the time.

I've tried asking multiple christians if they would still be of the same faith had they been born in Syria. Most trot out the same thing, that they would eventually convert to the present faith. Highly unlikely. Also, people convert *from* all religions *to* all religions quite frequently.....and so they're all correct, I guess.

It's also amusing how 'The One True Faith'™ isn't even original bullshit. Religions keep changing, merging and borrowing from each other...yet god is supposed to be unchanging. Uh huh.

And it's fascinating how 'god' only decided to interfere with his 'creation' after some 90,000+ years of our existence....Tardy much?
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#13
RE: Why Christianity?
(July 31, 2015 at 7:45 am)Neimenovic Wrote: And it's fascinating how 'god' only decided to interfere with his 'creation' after some 90,000+ years of our existence....Tardy much?

Make that 4,5 billion if you're talking about earth. And something similar to humans is around for at least 2 million years, if not more. I'm not entirely up to scratch as far as human fossils are concerned. So the time of montheistic religions is nothing but a chicken fart considering the overall timeline.
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#14
RE: Why Christianity?
The arguments support Christianity because Christianity is true. But they do not support the other religions because those religions are false.
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#15
RE: Why Christianity?
(July 31, 2015 at 7:45 am)Neimenovic Wrote: The strongest argument against god is the amount of different religions and the way they evolve and change over time. What you believe is determined for you by your parents based on your place of birth 99% of the time.

I've tried asking multiple christians if they would still be of the same faith had they been born in Syria. Most trot out the same thing, that they would eventually convert to the present faith. Highly unlikely. Also, people convert *from* all religions *to* all religions quite frequently.....and so they're all correct, I guess.

It's also amusing how 'The One True Faith'™ isn't even original bullshit. Religions keep changing, merging and borrowing from each other...yet god is supposed to be unchanging. Uh huh.

And it's fascinating how 'god' only decided to interfere with his 'creation' after some 90,000+ years of our existence....Tardy much?



Regarding changing and merging; LDS is astonishing in the magnitude and pace of it's rewriting of itself.  Joe Smith and Brigham Young (and virtually all other early Mormons) are definitely heretics by the lights of current LDS beliefs and would be instantly excommunicated if they were alive and members today.

I'm starting to view Mormonism as a 'petri dish' for what most/all religions have experienced through their evolution to the present time.  The appeal of Mormonism in this 'white lab coat and maze running mice' view is that the Mormons are less than 200 years old, and have conveniently left a massive paper trail of all their shenanigans, duplicity, connivance, and prevarications.

As a model for what hoops other religions have had to jump through to iron out their gestational fuckups while creating far, far, far more fuckups in the process, LDS is uniquely suited.   I realize now most all religions have self-falsified themselves over the centuries, and this is specifically due to the amazing job LDS has done to itself.

Hat's of to Joe Smith and his little experiment !!
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#16
RE: Why Christianity?
(July 31, 2015 at 9:42 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The arguments support Christianity because Christianity is true. But they do not support the other religions because those religions are false.

Um....because you say so?

Yea, no.
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#17
RE: Why Christianity?
But Jesus !!!!
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#18
RE: Why Christianity?
(July 31, 2015 at 9:42 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The arguments support Christianity because Christianity is true. But they do not support the other religions because those religions are false.

Not even trying anymore, are we, Chad?
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#19
RE: Why Christianity?
(July 31, 2015 at 9:42 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The arguments support Christianity because Christianity is true. But they do not support the other religions because those religions are false.

If nothing else, watching your arguments gradually degenerate to Godschild-quality assertions has been interesting.
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#20
RE: Why Christianity?
(July 31, 2015 at 9:44 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Butt Jesus !!!!

I fixt it!
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