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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 2:32 am
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Godschild,
There is no next life and there is no way you could know if there is. It doesn't matter what a fucking book says.
Of course I'll deny it if he punishes me in this life. Because it won't fucking happen and there would be know way I could tell even if it did. Bad shit happens and it doesn't get any worse no matter how much I sin because sin isn't even real. Crimes are real, morals are real, sins are not. Blasphemy is victimless.
And it's an insult to your God that he'd need to protect himself from Blasphemy by punishing potty mouths when he's supposedly invincible, GC. So if anyone is insulting him, it's you.
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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 2:44 am
I know my faith is true because I am a goddess. It's pretty obvious to me how true it is by just looking at myself.
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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 3:23 am
(January 27, 2017 at 1:44 am)Godschild Wrote: Because I personally know God, we have a real relationship and no it's not one sided.
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Ok, but how do you know you personally know God and you are not actually delusional? We have unshakable testimony of countless people who feel in their heart that the Emperor of Japan is divine, or that Muhammad’s revelations in the Koran are true or that they have a relationship with Krishna. So how do you know you're not like them?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 3:31 am
What makes faith true to the fanatic is believing wholeheartedly even when presented with evidence to the contrary.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 4:49 am
You perhaps ask a silly question.
The question should probably be rephrased to: "What makes your faith probable?"
We aren't aware whether true/absolute is possible. Be careful to specify the degree of truth in your question.
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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 2:34 pm
Because I get the golden ticket. The bonus is I get to look down on those that don't. My my, the air is good on the high ground.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: What makes your faith true?
January 27, 2017 at 5:36 pm
(January 27, 2017 at 3:23 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: (January 27, 2017 at 1:44 am)Godschild Wrote: Because I personally know God, we have a real relationship and no it's not one sided.
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Ok, but how do you know you personally know God and you are not actually delusional? We have unshakable testimony of countless people who feel in their heart that the Emperor of Japan is divine, or that Muhammad’s revelations in the Koran are true or that they have a relationship with Krishna. So how do you know you're not like them?
Better yet, ask a theist to put their own bullshit beliefs through the same objective evaluation they give other faiths or forms of irrationality and try to ask us to take you seriously or not call you a big fat liar.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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