RE: God: The Great Tempter
March 2, 2016 at 1:30 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2016 at 1:33 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(March 1, 2016 at 7:16 pm)Cecelia Wrote: No, feeding as many people as Jesus did with the amount of food he had isn't impressive. Because world hunger? It's still around. A major problem in fact. It's nothing more than a cheap magic trick that did nothing for anyone except for a few people some two thousand years ago (assuming it actually happened, that is). It'd be impressive if Jesus ended world hunger. But he didn't. Funny how it's still around.let's see, raising a decomposing corpse from the dead, not impressive; but vaccinations! mans greatest achievement!
Raising people from the dead? Again, not impressive. Nothing more than a cheap magic trick assuming it even happened. It accomplished absolutely nothing in terms of today's world.
Yes, I find vaccines to be more impressive because they've actually accomplished things. And no, you don't get to give God or Jesus credit for our immune system, because he told us absolutely nothing about them, instead leaving us to believe disease came from Demons.

(March 1, 2016 at 7:16 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Who exactly are you trying to pin the blame of the spread of smallpox on? Europeans? You mean the ones who came over here, and wanted to evangelize the "savages" and spread the "good word" of Jesus? Those guys? Funny how they apparently didn't need vaccines before the Jesus freaks showed up. (Of course it's arguable that they wouldn't have needed vaccines). So their life was much better before they learned about Jesus, according to you. So I'm not sure what great things Jesus is supposed to have done other than a few cheap magic tricks that are meaningless.
The genocide of the Indians had nothing to do with Christianity and more to do with greed.
“This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate.” - Thomas Jefferson
The above quote is by Thomas Jefferson, who Atheist like to point out, was not a christian.
But since you tried to pin the genocide of the Indians on Christianity, will you also give credit to Christianity for inventing the vaccine, that saved all those lives, seeing how the man that invented the smallpox vaccine was a "Jesus freak"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner
Quote:Neither fanatic nor lax, Jenner was a Christian who in his personal correspondence showed himself quite spiritual; he treasured the Bible. Some days before his death, he stated to a friend: "I am not surprised that men are not grateful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow creatures."
Therefore what you consider to be the greatest human achievement; was accomplished by a christian...
How do you like them apples.