RE: Evidence God Exists
January 16, 2011 at 2:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2011 at 2:02 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
AngelThMan Wrote:Do you even listen? I've said that when I've prayed as a test my prayers weren't answered, but that when I've prayed with faith they have been answered. How do you explain that?
Have you ever heard of the self-fufilling prophecy? The placebo effect?
You pray and hope that it is answered and you interpret events in a manner befitting the manner to which you think the supernatural entities you believe to exist work.
You pray as a test to see if the prayer is answered and you don't find an arbitrary sign, you assume it was a failure.
In other words, all of it was your imagination and none of it was supernatural.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
