(August 30, 2012 at 2:30 am)CBA222 Wrote: #1 The world doesn’t make sense without God.
Carl Sagan said it better than I ever could.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag6fH8cU-MU
And I have a question for you. Why do you assume that it was the christian god who created the universe? I say it was actually the goddess Ilmatar, on whose knee a duck laid it's egg, and when that egg fell it broke into two halves, it became the earth and the heaven. True story, it's said so in the Kalevala.
Quote:#2 Near Death Experiences
Read up on neuroscience. If conscious people can have a hard time separating imagination and the real world, don't get me started on unconscious ones.
Quote:#3 Bible Prophecies
I predict that it's going to rain tomorrow. You know what? I'm right. That must make me a prophet.
You can basically take any text and twist it into a simile to something that is happening now. That doesn't prove that someone could foresee the future, it merely means that shit happens all the time.
Quote:#1 Religion =/= Faith in Jesus
Many people who call themselves Christians aren’t really Christians. Just because they go to church or because they celebrate Christmas doesn’t mean they’re Christian. Being Christian means have an open relationship with God and accepting him.
Oh, so you're a True Christian™ then, are you? So devout muslims, who have an open relationship with God are suddenly Christians? What about Jews?
Quote:#2 Christians are idiotic jerks
Good people are good, bad people are bad. It has nothing to do with religion.
Quote:#3 Christians discourage sex
They do, before marriage.
Only do it in a committed relationship.
I'm in a committed relationship, but not married, so I should not have sex then? If your god made us sexual creatures, why put limits on something so wonderful?
I'm sorry, but I can't take you seriously, you just textwalled all the most ignorant ideas and fallacies and you're not the first one to do so. You could at least come up with something new..
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura