I have two nuns and a priest held hostage.

What should I demand as the ransom?

Why are you still a Christian?

Really, why?

No evidence baby, and he ain't coming' back.

(October 24, 2017 at 3:29 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have two nuns and a priest held hostage.

What should I demand as the ransom?

Don't ransom them. Breed them and start your own line in farm fresh babies. Battery ones, obviously. All that consecrated meat will be perfect for satanic atheist babycues.

(October 25, 2017 at 3:27 pm)Cyberman Wrote:

(October 24, 2017 at 3:29 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have two nuns and a priest held hostage.

What should I demand as the ransom?

Don't ransom them. Breed them and start your own line in farm fresh babies. Battery ones, obviously. All that consecrated meat will be perfect for satanic atheist babycues.

Please deliver them by c-section. The thought of nun vag kid squirtin might put me off my food.

Nah - do it the biblical way!

Quote: They shall fall by the sword, their children shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women squall be torn asunder, that the child may be extracted from the womb.

Hosea 13:16

How could the fucker disapprove?

speedyj1992 do you send money to TV evangelists?

(October 24, 2017 at 3:29 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have two nuns and a priest held hostage.

What should I demand as the ransom?

Demand $5 000 000, a getaway car, and that the letter 'M' be stricken from the English language.  See, you have to have one seriously nutty demand so that you can claim insanity if you have to go to trial.  Pffft....'getaway car'.  (full disclosure - that's an old Steve Martin joke)

Boru

(October 23, 2017 at 5:02 pm)Cyberman Wrote:

(October 23, 2017 at 4:27 pm)speedyj1992 Wrote: I do not - why do you ask?

Josephus did.

Ah - well, like I said, I follow Jesus, not Josephus. And Josephus, to my knowledge, never followed Jesus, so obviously we're going to disagree on certain things. But obviously there are things we would agree upon, just as I'm sure there are topics other than this one that we would agree on (probably many of them related to "Doctor Who", based on your username, and possibly other pop culture, particularly if you like science fiction).

(October 25, 2017 at 3:27 pm)Cyberman Wrote:

(October 24, 2017 at 3:29 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I have two nuns and a priest held hostage.

What should I demand as the ransom?

Don't ransom them. Breed them and start your own line in farm fresh babies. Battery ones, obviously. All that consecrated meat will be perfect for satanic atheist babycues.

Wait, you mean you cant blackmail them for Pikachu trading cards? Some of those are rare and worth some bling.

(October 23, 2017 at 6:48 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:

(October 23, 2017 at 5:29 pm)speedyj1992 Wrote: 1. [edit] But my experience with God (and what I've heard from others who have also come to faith) is that it's a process. [edit]

2. [edit] how the apostles proclaimed Jesus to their deaths,[edit]

1. If god actually exists why would it take a process? All it would take is an appearance, showing up, proof that it exists in reality. The fact that it does not and requires a "process" only indicates that god is a man made fantasy. Maybe a useful fantasy for some, but still a fantasy. 

2. So did the believers in Heavens Gate. So have thousands of other martyrs (not just christian). Not much of a point. People die for delusional beliefs all of the time.

The argument in response is that 1) God did show up, and revealed Himself to many people over many years. He is not obligated to us because we have forsaken Him and often continue to do so. Plus, you can't know an infinite God all at once when you're finite. That process needs to be there. 

2) The difference is you're talking about people who came after the apostles. The apostles themselves didn't have to die for Jesus' name's sake, in theory, except that they clearly really believed the things they preached because they knew the man. Why would they die for something they didn't believe in?