RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 15, 2012 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2012 at 6:20 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(August 15, 2012 at 5:10 pm)spockrates Wrote: You were a devout Pentecostal who read the King James Version of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, but you could not understand it.
Very uncharitable of you and arrogant, too. I hoped I did not understand it. Turns out I understood it fine. Not looking good.
(August 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm)spockrates Wrote: So you tried reading a more modern version. You then became what you call an agnostic theist, but (for reasons not explained) could no longer believe the Bible was inspired. You were gullible and interested in all things fantastic--UFOs, Nessie, hauntings, Yettie and the like. Then you became more skeptical and open minded. A teacher of your made a fool of himself trying to defend his liberal, Orthodox Christian beliefs. So you decided a closed mind was more rational.
I hoped I was misunderstanding you, too, but again I was wrong. You are just a troll. Yawn. Really though, it's a compliment. It means I don't think you're really stupid enough to sincerely conclude that I decided a closed mind was more rational. You're just baiting me.
(August 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm)spockrates Wrote: The proper application of the burden of proof that you learned in a class on logic was also helpful. The class taught you that you should believe nothing until it meets that burden of proof. You then made up your mind to not even provisionally consider God as a possibility.
I really didn't expect you to give up the game so early. On the off chance that you're really this dense, I still consider God as a possibility. If that's what you really think, so much for your reading comprehension.
(August 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm)spockrates Wrote: The whole trip took you 20 years without the aid of the Internet.
Does that pretty much sum it up?
In a way that demonstrates you're wasting both your time and mine, I suppose. Good to know. B'bye.
(August 15, 2012 at 5:15 pm)LastPoet Wrote: As to ghosts, when I was a kid, I was walking through an old abandoned house, reputed as being haunted, a flash of light from a window scared the shit out of me. I truly believed at that time it was a ghost of somekind, yet, I wasn't satisfied. The next day I repeated my path, and saw the phenomena repeated itself. Hmmm. I gained entrance to the house and discovered a mirror that was in such an angle that reflected a street light at the distance (those times they were white) when I was passing by.
I used science, and it works bitches!
Similar account: When I was a kid, some other children were in a fret in front of what was locally reputed to be a haunted house. The front door was open and a vase was clearly visible floating in mid-air! I took a closer look and when I was within the house, I could see that there was an isolated shelf sticking out from a wall on the left. It was made of the same wood as the wall behind it from the door. You had to be pretty close to see the shelf since it was effectively camoflauged, so it looked like the vase on it was sitting on nothing.
Had I not demonstrated this, it wouldn't be surprising if one of those children, now grown up, was telling the story of the floating vase as evidence for the paranormal to this day.
(August 15, 2012 at 5:51 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Improbable things happen, and absent any kind of corroborating evidence that there's something supernatural occuring, I see no reason to chalk such happenings up to anything other than coincidence.
The odds of getting any particular Bridge hand (13 cards) out of a well-shuffled deck are about 60 billion to one. We're surrounded by fabulously long odds all the time.
