(November 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm)justthetruth Wrote: It is amazing how atheist describe Christians. We are the fools who believe in a make believe God and they don't have a clue that the god of this world Satan, the fallen one, has blinded their eyes from the truth.
My eyes may be blinded but I can still recognise preaching. And it's "atheists'.
(November 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm)justthetruth Wrote: If God did not exist there would be no existence at all. The periodic table of the elements is not my daddy. And I am not a monkey’s uncle.
Wow - a triple strawman non sequitur! And I thought they were just a myth. To paraphrase Tracey Harris of The Atheist Experience: "You believe without question in fallen angels and miracles etc, yet things like evolution and the periodic table of the elements blow your mind."
(November 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm)justthetruth Wrote: All God ever does is ask me to trust him.
Do you hear an actual audible voice asking you these things, or is it more of a feeling? Either way, how do you know it is your god doing this, rather than one of those fallen angels that you believe have lied to us? If they can lie to anyone at all, they can certainly lie to you.
(November 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm)justthetruth Wrote: I do and I will face my death when the time comes with high anticipation. I will never regret my decision to follow him.
Though I agree that you will never have regrets once you're dead, if you anticipate your death as much as you say shouldn't you be in more of a hurry to actually achieve it?
(November 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm)justthetruth Wrote: Not here to save anyone, just shine some light into the darkness.
You're not here to save anyone yet you tell us we're deceived by Satan. I see. As for the latter half of the above sentence, I have a quote in my extensive collection which will put it better than I could:
Quote:Actually, you've got it backwards. It's you fundies who want to keep everyone in the dark. After all, doesn't the name Lucifer mean "light bearer"?
Okay, okay. I'm feeling slightly magnanimous this evening, so I'll give you another answer, one that's more in the spirit of your post. A better analogy would be you repeatedly shining a large flashlight directly into our eyes while....
* not understanding that we actually can see just fine without it;
* not grasping the concept that a bright light shone directly into one's eyes does more harm than good;
* thinking we don't really mean what we say when we politely ask you to point your flashlight elsewhere (see points 1 and 2);
* not understanding that it won't make any difference if we sit and hear you ramble on about how a flashlight shining into your eyes changed your life for the better and it'd do the same for us if we only allowed it to hit our eyes for a little longer, perhaps from a different angle than we're used to (see point 3); and finally...
* not grasping the concept that, even if the company that manufactured your flashlight printed explicit instructions for its user to go out and shine it in other people's faces, said instructions are still unacceptably irritating, and do NOT, in fact, deserve immunity from criticism simply because the flashlight manufacturer says it's okay.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
