(February 19, 2018 at 12:02 am)vorlon13 Wrote:(February 18, 2018 at 6:58 pm)Chad32 Wrote: For me it boils down to my moderate religious grandmother thinking I'm not going to get into heaven. Even though she knows I'm a good person. She believes you can't get into heaven just by being good (It would make christianity and the bible completely obsolete otherwise), so she thinks atheism causes good people to go to hell.
I would remind your Grandmother that extremism in religiosity is no vice! And let me remind her also that moderation in the pursuit of religiosity is no virtue!
I believe extremism in anything is a vice. It's what leads to conflict and wars, doesn't it? Two or more sides refusing to budge, to the point that violence breaks out. Without compromise, groups of differing beliefs can't get along, even if they both make some decent points in one area or another.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
