(June 12, 2016 at 2:56 pm)abaris Wrote: Same as with christians. Excercise in futility. But whatever rocks your boat.Sometimes it's not futile, thouh the results may not be immediate. I was a Christian for 25 years, and as long as I had an emotional need to believe, I continued to do so. All the reason and logic and questioning seemed futile. But these were the seeds that helped to shift my emotional needs. Have you ever heard that old story about the little boy who planted a seed and dug it up the next day to see if it was growing?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.