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How do you respond to this statement?
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 26, 2013 at 12:16 am
(June 25, 2013 at 7:34 pm)taylor93112 Wrote: "There are many questions we wont have answers to."

Who is we? No! You mean YOU dont have all the answeres and never will!
Quote:"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan".

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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 26, 2013 at 1:00 am
(June 25, 2013 at 7:34 pm)taylor93112 Wrote: "There are many questions we wont have answers to."
Or
"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan".

I'm sick of hearing these when talking to religious people. What is the best response to these statements?

There are many questions we don't have answers to - but it is extremely difficult to identify those that we will never have answers to. What must be avoided at all costs, however, is the idea that the answer to any question we don't have an answer to, is God.

This is "God of the cracks" and it has a very poor track record historically.

As for Good seeing the bigger plan - what plan? Why should there be a plan?
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 26, 2013 at 1:23 am
Quote:"There are many questions we wont have answers to."
Or
"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan".


#1 - Something along the lines of "and you'll never have answers if you keep looking in the pages of an absurd old book." (They hate that one.)

#2 - "I have no evidence that your god exists." (The REALLY hate that one.)
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 26, 2013 at 9:53 am
(June 25, 2013 at 7:34 pm)taylor93112 Wrote: "There are many questions we wont have answers to."

A cop-out usually used when they're backed into a logical corner and they can't explain certain parts of their ridiculous religion.

Quote:"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan".

A cop-out used when they can't explain why an all-loving god would let the world get as shitty as it is.
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 26, 2013 at 9:58 am
I don't avoid the subject of religion with my super christian families. However, I approach it from a christian viewpoint. They think I am a christian. So when I ask a question they can't answer, I file it away. One day all of these little questions they can't answer will come in handy for something.
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 27, 2013 at 9:29 pm
"There are many questions we wont have answers to."

Yes?

"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan."

And You?
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 28, 2013 at 6:49 pm
Come on peeps that answers are simple.

"There are many questions we wont have answers to."

True, however it is an assumpton to assume all answers with no questions have the answer god. Also, filling those gaps with god is only one way. (I would await their response)

"I have faith that god sees the bigger plan."

And how do you know what this plan is? Faith by default is hope. However, there are two kinds of hope, false hope (built either on faulty pretense or observation.) and real hope (realizing plausible outcomes and hoping for those, such as resucue or something.). With that said, I want you to observe what kind of hope you currently hold. Look at it in an objective view point. After doing so, now tell me based on the world how is this hope not false? A god with out accountability? I know what the bible says regarding god being the all powerful, however you cannot view into his mind. How can we trust him? How do we know he is not malevolent? (some along those lines.)
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 30, 2013 at 9:52 am
I've had those statements put to me a few times to, some very good answers in this thread! What about this one

"There is no physical evidence for species to species evolution, why aren't there transitional fossils"
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 30, 2013 at 9:58 am
(June 30, 2013 at 9:52 am)Atheistic_Dan Wrote: I've had those statements put to me a few times to, some very good answers in this thread! What about this one

"There is no physical evidence for species to species evolution, why aren't there transitional fossils"

All fossils ARE transitional fossils.
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RE: How do you respond to this statement?
June 30, 2013 at 7:47 pm
(June 25, 2013 at 7:52 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Ask them how things like this fit into the "bigger plan."

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That's easy.

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