RE: Please describe your god's loyalty reward scheme.
November 17, 2017 at 4:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2017 at 4:32 pm by WinterHold.)
(November 17, 2017 at 2:14 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote: Wow. Quotes from a book that support your beliefs from a book that you believe is true without any evidence. How novel.
mmm, Exactly ?
(November 17, 2017 at 2:25 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 17, 2017 at 2:18 pm)alpha male Wrote: Seems appropriate considering the questions asked in OP. What exactly were you expecting?Typical lame atheist tag-team tactic.
That is exactly what he (and the OP) was expecting.
Like we said, some folks ask people questions but aren't actually interested in their answer/in discussion.
The post was asking a question for theist's; so it's quite normal for theists to answer with reference to their own holy books.
(November 17, 2017 at 2:26 pm)Harry Nevis Wrote:(November 17, 2017 at 1:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I don't believe in other religions or other gods, but I'd still be interested in talking to a Buddhist or a Hindu, etc, about their religious beliefs in genuine discussion. I think it would be interesting to hear their views. I certainly wouldn't ask them questions just so i could mock the answers they took time to give me, and be sarcastic and condecending towards them. But that's just me I guess.
I guess growing up in a culture (as well as being raised RC) filled with christianity means that we've heard every rationalization and apology about the holes in the belief that it gets pretty old. Also, the condescension and sarcasm goes both ways. So many believers create atheist strawmen to knock around, without even knowing the definition of the word. But I never have to make up a ridiculous example of what a christian believes, as so many willingly fill me in, contradicting so many others. When all these believers with opposing stories (with all claiming a personal relationship with god) claim they have the insight on what their god wants, there is little left to go to beside condenscention and sarcasm.
I would also be interested in talking to followers of other religions, as I've had comparatively little exposure to these. But there is nothing new to be learned about christianity, except the lengths believers will go to to convince themselves they are "right".
If you launch your sarcasm torpedoes at theists who didn't fire first; then you have an issue.
You won't find a hater for the religious institution more than me. But some religious people are good, not arrogant and not selfish; actually seekers of vengence scare me more because they see the face of the religious person they hate in every other face around them.
So torpedoes begin to fly everywhere. And suddenly I find myself falling a victim for stereotyping; or she is being blamed for what the pope did 1000 years ago.
The pattern is so obvious here.
