(August 14, 2017 at 10:29 pm)Fr33Th1nker Wrote: Hi all. I am new here. I believe in God but I am a free thinker too.
I don't actually find the post funny since most of the statement are true and are facts except those statements about atheists. The statements are all true, the observations are correct but I'm sorry to say that the conclusion is wrong. There are scientific explanations for all those statements and has noting to do with God.
Here's a better example of what is funny:
A child was experimenting on a frog. He put his face close to the frog and shouted jump! To his expectation, the frog did jump. Then he cut off 1 of its leg and again put his face near the frog and shouted jump! Again he was not surprised to see the frog jump. He then proceeded to cut another leg and put his face near the frog and shouted jump. In spite of the frog having two legs left, the frog still managed to jump. The third time he cut the frog's legs and shouted jump, the frog was not able to jump but was able to move. The child, still not satisfied with his experiment, decided to cut the last leg of the frog. So for the last time he put his face close to the frog and shouted jump several times. When the frog did not jump or move, the child smiled brightly and had a eureka moment. He observed that if you cut all the legs of the frog the frog will not be able to move. The observation is correct! He therefore concluded that if you cut off all of the legs of the frog and shout at the frog to jump, the frog becomes deaf that's why he can't move. The frog can't hear you shout.
Correct observation but wrong conclusion like the topic of this thread.
Actually that's also incorrect, if you know a bit more about the items in the statements that were made. Let me point out a few.
There is actually at least one tribe discovered that has no god concept. So that's at least one place in the world that religion hasn't been practiced in. So that's wrong.
Also men and women aren't all built with a desire for one another. There's homosexuals, and people who identify as asexual. Or bisexual. Lots of flavors out there, but of course if you're the kind of asshole who believes that any such sexual predilections are a choice, then of course that would be denied.
The 'automated' food chain didn't help 99% of every form of life that ever existed from going extinct, or large portions of the world from becoming deserts or frozen wastelands.
And the human body's functions can be fucked with and still function. Pancreas shutdown, colostomies, etc.
Scrutiny is a powerful tool against arrogance and bullshit. I know you're new but please remember that believing in god is not really a statement compatible with being a 'freethinker' since you have to suspend quite a bit of thought to be able to believe it. Just wanted to point that out.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.