Good exists - a Catholic comments

[Barry]

For us faithless, kindly spell out the answer. What makes you think it's so terribly binary? What makes you think these are the only two possible answers?

What makes you so afraid to admit that we may not know, that you'd adhere to a synthetic explanation totally absent of proof?

I'd argue you 1) lack the imagination to consider that the answer may still be unknown and 2) the fortitude to say "We just don't know". You insist that this is binary, but you don't say why it may only be so.

I'd argue that you in your turn don't understand science as a process.

You are essentially pushing a god-of-the-gaps argument. How's that working out for your religion? Your pope concedes that natural selection is likely true, and we've had for decades experiments and observations showing that amino acids arise naturally. We've got a hypothesis about how they might congregate into cell-like structures.

We've made good headway into reducing deaths from  cancer, which seems to be beyond your god's purview.

We ship food to starving regions which your god seems to care little about.

In so many ways, the "perfect" god you worship pulls up short of human efforts, so you fall back upon, "But yeah, who made it all?" And when shown that something may arise from nothing, you shake your head. Not out of rational objection, but out of beliefs. And you're afraid to say "We don't know". No! Because you must have The Answer™ You! Your evangelism is ego writ large.

I don't care what you believe. I care what you can demonstrate.

Until then, you're just another blowhard who thinks nonbelievers will (at last!) take you seriously ... like any other blowhard.

Meanwhile, why do you still tithe to an organization which shuffles molesters off to hide them from law enforcement? Do you like supporting that stuff? Or are you simply afraid of what the Joneses will think? And if so, is that not ego as well?

 What a great post, pity it was wasted on a Troll/Sock

Hi, wow that’s a lot to unload on me. 2+2 =4 or not. How can the existence of God not be binary? Saying you don’t know the answer is not an answer. That doesn’t make sense. I say the answer is yes, God exists. It doesn’t make me right. If you say “no”. One of us is right, the other wrong. The people who don’t know don’t have an answer. They are not right or wrong. I respect all 3 positions, buy it is binary.
Cheers Barry