RE: Thoughts on Atheism (and a plea to the religious)
July 8, 2012 at 11:26 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2012 at 11:29 am by CliveStaples.)
(July 8, 2012 at 11:20 am)KnockEmOuttt Wrote: But that's exactly my point. It's convoluted. I'm not going to try and qualify it all for you, that is obviously beyond mine and everyone else's abilities. I'm not going to try to disprove god or religion to you because I'm sure you've heard/read every argument before and still hold steadfast to faith. That is fine, but obviously your only goal here is to simply refute everything at all costs.
No, I just like thinking through things, and trying to understand the reasons why I think/believe a certain way--and why I don't think/believe a different why. And I like to see the reasons other people have. I like to ask myself, "Why should I think a thing like that?"
(July 8, 2012 at 11:25 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Clive, you never did address my point, I notice...
Sorry, I think I must have missed it. I'll go back and re-read.
EDIT: Is this the point you were referring to?
(July 8, 2012 at 5:21 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Because Christians love to pick and choose what they believe in their holy book. The entire New Testament is based on the understanding that the Old Testament is basically prophesy realized. Therefore you have to believe the Old Testament is fact, and therefore you can either choose to believe that Genesis is truth. Or you can pick and choose, in which case why even bother believing in any of it at all if you choose to disbelieve in only certain parts and you choose to discard others?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
