(November 9, 2018 at 11:26 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:(November 9, 2018 at 9:17 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I do agree that religious topics get too repetitive but I really wonder do theists have any interesting ideas anymore? I think I heard all the arguments and that's why religious topics get repetitive.Nail on the head. I think this is why I stopped with the religious threads. They aren't bringing fresh conversation to us they are just spitting out the same thing over and over. If they would just read through the already made threads they could see the debates and conversations without bothering us.
That's why, I guess, people on this forum have their expiration date. If I look at the posts in back to several years ago I see almost completely different cast of characters or should I say users. People come here, run their circles, say what they have and move on. And, also, I must admit that my own expiration date, for some reason or the other, on forums is usually four years, will this be longer - who knows.
Also, the thing is that religious people don't have any logical reason for believing in god. They pretend they do here because they think it makes them look more intellectual. So when they roll out their twisted logic here atheists point the faults to them and they usually ignore it or simply insist that they're right or just switch to the "I feel god" argument, because the reason they believe in god is their parents and family. So there is nothing left for atheists then to ridicule them and then theists get offended because they feel like their whole family is being ridiculed and so on.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"