RE: Faith healing couple acquitted of manslaughter charges! How can this happen?
July 30, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Quote:I disagree. One can associate prayer with talking to yourself if there is no evidence that anyone is listening.There is no evidence no one is not listening. I thought we had been over this. It is pointless to just up and assume that god doesn't exist, as I could just up and assume he does. That gets us no where, so we should treat the question as unanswered.
Quote:How exactly would you argue such a statement? Evidently you thought it was appropriate since you mention it.I wouldn't, it is untrue. It is not appropriate for me to call all atheists crazy, only because we disagree. You can call religion a mental illness... I can call atheism a mental illness... Who is right, neither of us. Who sounds more silly, the one claiming the other is a mental defective for having a different point of view.
I only maintain that prayer as a concept can have a good side, and it would be easy for you guys to miss it. Just like it is easy for you to see no good from the concept of god.
Thanks,
-Pip
