(February 24, 2018 at 9:56 pm)Banned Wrote:(February 24, 2018 at 8:08 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: I'm not hiding. Of COURSE I only believe in what I see. I believe in what can be measured, documented, and verified.
-- What? A love life is based only upon fantasy? Well, that's just sad.
And I'm pretty sick of snake-oil salesmen disrespecting me because I don't share their fantasies and their imaginary friends.
All of that "you have to SEEK", "you have to PRAY", "you have to FEEL HIM IN YOUR HEART" is crap that only works in group-think tribal gatherings where people feed on each other's emotions and suspend critical thinking skills. And it's crap that is pure manipulation. Witch doctors have gotten away with that "believe me or burn" bullshit for thousands of years, and it's well beyond time for people listening to them to say "put up or shut up". PROVE IT.
Not a single preacher, Pope, Imam, Priest, Guru, etc., has been able to offer a single millisecond's worth of proof that a deity exists in the last 2000 years at least. The Pope has no proof. Prove it, without religious books or writings, without a human being yammering on about their fantasy witness stories, without "apologetics". If your God can't prove its own existence all by itself, it's not worth a moment's attention.
If you don't have anything to do with the above, you should be fairly contented I'd imagine, but your language says otherwise.
(February 24, 2018 at 9:44 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: My mind, which has the capacity to reason, critically think, and evaluate, understands that unevidenced supernatural claims can and should be rationally dismissed.
Like a work of art that has no artist if the artist can't be seen.
Or a book that has no author, if he or she doesn't show up on demand by those who would like to burn the book.
+1 I have 2 paintings in my living room blessed to me by the holy FSM, Materialized in my room before my eyes.
They are signed but It's just to throw off the doubting Thomases.
RAmen
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming" -The Prophet Boiardi-
Conservative trigger warning.