RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
September 22, 2014 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2014 at 2:36 pm by C4RM5.)
Oh I have just started to do that. I have made it to numbers.
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 RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
September 22, 2014 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2014 at 2:41 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(September 22, 2014 at 12:34 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: Has life been made from stratch in a lab? So heads you win, tails I lose? Why hold the opinion in the first place if you don't really care if it's actually true? (September 22, 2014 at 2:36 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: Oh I have just started to do that. I have made it to numbers. That's an excellent start. I don't have the patience to read it again in my fifities, though I've read Genesisi more times than I know.
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 RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
September 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm by C4RM5.)
I do care whether it is true or not true, it is just the only way I can argue for it is through the Bible.
 (September 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: I do care whether it is true or not true, it is just the only way I can argue for it is through the Bible. But that's the entire problem. You have a group of claims that may or may not be true (the Bible). You are trying to determine which claims are true and which are not true. You cannot use the Bible itself to support itself. It's circular reasoning that will always end up in the same spot.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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September 22, 2014 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2014 at 2:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Oh...awesome, so you're about to get to the bit about god first assessing his military capabilities and resources, then assembling his army - a short interlude wherein he annihilates a hefty number of his own soldiers -ala Vader...for their "disturbing lack of faith" -more wandering in the desert during which time the isrealites are attacked by dragons - and finally their commanders get their shit together, calling them to genocide against both the Midianites and Canaanites. This will segue nicely into an immediate consolidation of all power within a centralized state and preisthood in the next episode. Sounds legit.
Hmn, maybe I should have added a spoiler tag.....but you know how this is all going to end anyway, amiright?
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This thread is now in retrograde...
 (September 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: I do care whether it is true or not true, it is just the only way I can argue for it is through the Bible. Bolding mine, and that, Carm, is a lie. It's a lie when you say you care if your beliefs are true, while simultaneously saying that nothing could ever convince you that you're wrong. I shouldn't have to explain why.
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Want to see more of my writing? Check out my (safe for work!) site, Unprotected Sects!  (September 22, 2014 at 2:36 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: Oh I have just started to do that. I have made it to numbers. If the bible (or the kerrang) was nothing more than characters saying "hey, everyone, just calm down and be copacetic to each other, m'kay?" then the thing would be the size of a cigarette paper (or The Wit And Wisdom Of Margaret Thatcher) and we'd all be xtians or similar. The fact, uncomfortable to some, is that the damn thing has been and still is being used to justify the most terrible of atrocities. From slavery through to genocide, the book makes a perfect shield for the psychopath. Yes, there are good things in it, but they aren't good by virtue of being in it. They are good because they coincide with our own common morality. There are true things in it; but they aren't true because they're in it or because some certain character allegedly said them. They are true because they happen to be true. None of that makes the Abrahamic mythologies wrong or right, all else being equal. Where they fall down, spectacularly, is when they are held to be pronouncements of divine authority that must never be questioned. You only have to stroll through these very boards to see prime examples of people who cannot see reality because their special book is in the way. (September 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: I do care whether it is true or not true, it is just the only way I can argue for it is through the Bible. Then your arguments are dead in the water. Your god is like a genie trapped in the pages of the bible. Close the book and your god vanishes in a puff of sub-mediocre literature.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(September 22, 2014 at 4:53 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(September 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: I do care whether it is true or not true, it is just the only way I can argue for it is through the Bible. I don't really see how that is a lie, both are true. Nothing will stop me from believing and I care about my beliefs being true. |
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