RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
April 15, 2016 at 1:56 am
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2016 at 1:59 am by Fake Messiah.)
Just like it is with magic the essence or nature of god is that it must be unexplainable. If you explain a miracle or even manifestation of deity then it's not god anymore. Is it? Or am I wrong? So another question is could there ever exist in our universe anything that can never be explained?
And also don't forget:
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It's the way religious people go, since they can't use logic or evidence they just blab out some retarded shit. For instance if you ever heard or read any Sunday given sermon. Here is a sample paragraph from a sermon written by Charles G. Finney [source link]. It is totally incomprehensible. It's not logical, emotional perhaps:
"There are, as you know, two kinds of fear. There is that fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil and is purely selfish. This is the kind of fear which was possessed by those people spoken of in the text. They were afraid Jehovah would send his judgments upon them, if they did not perform certain rites, and this was the motive they had for paying him worship. Those who have this fear are supremely selfish, and while they profess to reverence Jehovah, have other gods whom they love and serve".
There are hundreds of sermons like this preached every Sunday. It's like listening to Sarah Palin. And also all the religious people are actually fanatics, because today you have to be a fanatic to refuse all the scientific evidence and stick to your stubbornness. So what is the point of arguing with fanatics?
And also don't forget:
(April 14, 2016 at 9:14 am)RozKek Wrote:(April 14, 2016 at 8:05 am)ChadWooters Wrote: A fairie is not that which the greater than which cannot be conceived.
Do you phrase like that on purpose to fry people's brains?
It's the way religious people go, since they can't use logic or evidence they just blab out some retarded shit. For instance if you ever heard or read any Sunday given sermon. Here is a sample paragraph from a sermon written by Charles G. Finney [source link]. It is totally incomprehensible. It's not logical, emotional perhaps:
"There are, as you know, two kinds of fear. There is that fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil and is purely selfish. This is the kind of fear which was possessed by those people spoken of in the text. They were afraid Jehovah would send his judgments upon them, if they did not perform certain rites, and this was the motive they had for paying him worship. Those who have this fear are supremely selfish, and while they profess to reverence Jehovah, have other gods whom they love and serve".
There are hundreds of sermons like this preached every Sunday. It's like listening to Sarah Palin. And also all the religious people are actually fanatics, because today you have to be a fanatic to refuse all the scientific evidence and stick to your stubbornness. So what is the point of arguing with fanatics?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
