RE: Book of Acts: Pure Fantasy
January 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2012 at 2:10 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(January 22, 2012 at 4:24 am)apophenia Wrote: So, in other words, you have no argument.
Well, you just go on believing that. I've presented my arguments and I think they stand just fine on their own. You obviously don't think so and want me to go down the philoso-babble rabbit hole with you to a world of magic and imagination. I, on the other hand, don't want to waste my time talking about undiscovered hypothetical celestial tea pots or that it turns out we really are a brain in a jar somewhere.
I'm just a simple Kentucky boy who lives by common sense. Everything I've learned, observed and experienced in the universe tells me it's a pretty natural place and that science, not woo, seems the best way to understand it. Now if you've got some black swans or magic handkerchiefs (Acts 19:11-12) for me to look at, I'll be happy to oblige. But if you want to play Fox Mulder and tell me there some strange, undiscovered woo out there that keeps itself hidden for some reason and justify it all with a flippant "gee, it's all mysterious and stuff", then stop wasting my time and go boast of your glorious victory to all your friends.
Q. E. D. Now fuck off.
(January 22, 2012 at 5:36 am)Godschild Wrote: So it's not scripture that you want to argue, it's your idea that you have never nor will ever believe in any miracles because we live in a natural world.
Bingo except for that "nor will ever" part. You show me a miracle and I'll believe. The only thing I'm arguing from scripture is "do you really believe this crap?"
Your god was running amok in the days of old, according to your stories, overturning the natural order the same way that Jesus allegedly did to all the merchant stands in the Temple. These days, he can't seem to do much more than make an appearance on toast.
As I've repeatedly said in this thread, put up or shut up.
(January 22, 2012 at 5:51 am)Phil Wrote:(January 22, 2012 at 5:47 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: By the way ...How is the furniture construction going?
You gotta be kidding. A guy that believes in a book that claims pi is 3 not once but twice builds furniture? well I suppose if he stays away from circles he might be ok but I wouldn't take a chance sitting in a chair he built.
Fortunately, most Christians operate by a different set of rules when they're not in church or trying to treat gays and atheists as second class citizens. Christian doctors prescribe medicine and not exorcism. Christian language teachers try to teach foreign languages rather than get students to speak in tongues. Christian airline pilots rely on aerodynamics rather than angel wings. We all operate by the same rules until Christians want to discuss what scripture says.
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