RE: How to convert Christians to atheists in 30 seconds (ironically, using bible)
December 6, 2016 at 1:47 pm
(December 6, 2016 at 1:40 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 6, 2016 at 1:30 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Is that analogy supposed to be compelling, cuz, like, it's not.
No. It's just how I look at it. Not everything can be "tested" and I'm personally ok with that. Sometimes certain things just make logical sense based on what we've experiences and what we know. To me, my religious faith is no different.
No no, I think you misunderstood. It's more than such things are untested; it's that they are crafted to be untestable. So to talk about them as being theories is an exercise in sophistry at worst.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'