RE: Your 3 main reasons
April 18, 2011 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2011 at 11:39 am by orogenicman.)
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It doesn't matter what kind of achievements you have in life, all that matters is accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior in order to not be sent to hell in the afterlife.
I guess I've been debating too much with Christians or reading too many of their lame arguments, but these are the likely rebuttals. You're not going to change any Christian's mind with arguments such as these, so why try? Even when faced with hard evidence that Jesus likely didn't exist, there's no evidence that God exists, or inconsistencies/inaccuracies in the bible, they always come up with some ad hoc argument to explain it away. That's one reason I dumped religion, because I realized that I kept having to come up with explanations in order to quell my cognitive dissonance whenever a serious question about religion came up. But I think most Christians don't have a problem doing that.
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Lewis Black once said "I'd truly love to believe that the world was created in seven days - - - but I have thoughts. And we all know that thoughts can fuck up the faith thing. Ask any Catholic priest!"
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It doesn't matter what kind of achievements you have in life, all that matters is accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior in order to not be sent to hell in the afterlife.
I guess I've been debating too much with Christians or reading too many of their lame arguments, but these are the likely rebuttals. You're not going to change any Christian's mind with arguments such as these, so why try? Even when faced with hard evidence that Jesus likely didn't exist, there's no evidence that God exists, or inconsistencies/inaccuracies in the bible, they always come up with some ad hoc argument to explain it away. That's one reason I dumped religion, because I realized that I kept having to come up with explanations in order to quell my cognitive dissonance whenever a serious question about religion came up. But I think most Christians don't have a problem doing that.
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Lewis Black once said "I'd truly love to believe that the world was created in seven days - - - but I have thoughts. And we all know that thoughts can fuck up the faith thing. Ask any Catholic priest!"
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
