I like the one near me (also on the way to work). "God loves you, whether you like it or not!"
It's like there's a kind of hateful spite in their message of love. Kind of telling if you ask me.
But screw the religious. I won't be defined as an atheist because I'm anti-religious. I couldn't care less about the religious. The world is full of unenlightened stupidity; religion is just one aspect of it.
But I talked to one guy at work (B.Sc., R.N., Capt.) who finally admitted that he doesn't really understand God or all the aspects of his faith, he just believes it. How can you believe what you don't understand? How can you say something is true, when you're not even sure what it is?
The whole atheist/theist argument seems flawed to me, because no one will have a debate that starts out with an agreed upon definition of exactly what God is.
i.e.
God is this and exists because of this. His presence is detectable like this, and for this reason I believe He exists.
Instead its always, "God is the primary mover." "God is the first cause." "God is the uncaused cause." Who the hell cares? Even if it's true, that isn't the God of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Janism, Taoism, Mormonism, or of the Branch Dividians. If God is the "cause of the big bang" great! That isn't for one second the god Jesus Christ talked about. And it offers nothing to the claims that Jesus actually was God incarnate.
But the religious don't care. They just believe. They just have faith. They obey what they are taught at the very same time they claim to agree with what they are taught and they don't seem to know the difference. I wish there were more people with their own personal religions. The world would be more interesting.
Hey! I know! Burn all the churches to the ground, and tell everyone they are free to have their own religion, just not a collective one. Then you still have freedom of religion. In fact, you have freedom of religion on steroids.
It's like there's a kind of hateful spite in their message of love. Kind of telling if you ask me.
But screw the religious. I won't be defined as an atheist because I'm anti-religious. I couldn't care less about the religious. The world is full of unenlightened stupidity; religion is just one aspect of it.
But I talked to one guy at work (B.Sc., R.N., Capt.) who finally admitted that he doesn't really understand God or all the aspects of his faith, he just believes it. How can you believe what you don't understand? How can you say something is true, when you're not even sure what it is?
The whole atheist/theist argument seems flawed to me, because no one will have a debate that starts out with an agreed upon definition of exactly what God is.
i.e.
God is this and exists because of this. His presence is detectable like this, and for this reason I believe He exists.
Instead its always, "God is the primary mover." "God is the first cause." "God is the uncaused cause." Who the hell cares? Even if it's true, that isn't the God of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Janism, Taoism, Mormonism, or of the Branch Dividians. If God is the "cause of the big bang" great! That isn't for one second the god Jesus Christ talked about. And it offers nothing to the claims that Jesus actually was God incarnate.
But the religious don't care. They just believe. They just have faith. They obey what they are taught at the very same time they claim to agree with what they are taught and they don't seem to know the difference. I wish there were more people with their own personal religions. The world would be more interesting.
Hey! I know! Burn all the churches to the ground, and tell everyone they are free to have their own religion, just not a collective one. Then you still have freedom of religion. In fact, you have freedom of religion on steroids.
