RE: What beliefs would we consider reasonable for a self proclaimed Christian to hold?
March 16, 2018 at 9:12 am
(March 16, 2018 at 9:06 am)Khemikal Wrote: I don;t think that matters to a person who believes in cantrips. Frankly, I don't know why a comparison between a 747 and a cell ever appeals to a believer....because it's not biology or engineering the person is trying to assert either way. God is not a biologist or an aeronautical engineer. He's a sorcerer. We weren't grown or drafted. We were breathed into existence out of mud and ribs.
Hey, here's one for all the cretinists...did adam or eve have belly buttons? Was that included in their "perfect bodies"? Did their dna contain hereditary disease, waiting to procreate it's way into the next generation? Was that included in their "perfect bodies"? Male pattern baldness, is this caused by a flaw in the "design"..or is it one of the many wages of "sin" pursuant to the curse and fall?
Yeah, at the base of it, they're not arguing facts at all. I have asked questions of many fundamentalists, and they all revert to "who cares what science says? God can do anything he wants!" This protects their ability to turn their brains completely off and still feel superior.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein