RE: What are your answers?
September 23, 2011 at 11:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2011 at 11:42 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:but I don't hate organized religion in general.
I do.
Organised religion is a flesh eating disease on the body of humanity, They perpetuate one of the greatest confidence tricks in human history:that human beings need interpreters and specialists to explain and mediate between them and their gods.

Quote:I thought I made it clear that you two have a ban on the supernatural and no level of evidence will satisfy your desire to disprove me, therefore I have no response for the flood, creation and exodus.
Nobody here is trying to disprove anything. We are asking that you prove your claims, no more. Why is that so threatening to you?
Quote: I believe they all happened and the Bible is historical and divine.
That you are able to believe that in the face of evidence,suggests willful ignorance,cognitive dissonance (George Orwell called it 'doublethink') or quite severe intellectual impairment (stupidity). My money is on cognitive dissonance,although I also suspect you may not be the brightest bulb in the theatre.
Quote:Cognitive dissonance is a discomfort caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions.[2] Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying. The phrase was coined by Leon Festinger in his 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, which chronicled the followers of a UFO cult as reality clashed with their fervent beliefs.[3][4] It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. A closely related term, cognitive disequilibrium, was coined by Jean Piaget to refer to the experience of a discrepancy between something new and something already known or believed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance