(October 22, 2012 at 1:09 am)Lion IRC Wrote: Many people have all the proof they need. Some others say, that's not proof even when it appears that someone has risen from the dead.
Appears; until they then find the scientific explanation and know they didn't.
(October 22, 2012 at 1:09 am)Lion IRC Wrote: Others go so far as to say...no matter what happens I will never have a deathbed conversion so dont believe anything I might say.
What will you do once you see this ''proof'' - take back all the horrible things you said about God?
Well, since he would know what I was thinking, there would be no point in rescinding it. If god did exist, he would be just as much of a tyrant as he is within the bible as a fictional character. So, no, because I genuinely think he is a bad person.
(October 22, 2012 at 1:09 am)Lion IRC Wrote: The funny thing is, if a hardcore, skeptical atheist experienced a convincing personal epiphany and honestly believed they had been given ''proof'' of God, they would - from that moment on - find themself in the ranks of the very same people whose testimony (and sanity) atheists assert must be doubted.
I wouldn't, why would a personal epiphany prove god? If there is no hard evidence, then it is more reasonable to conclude that my brain had some sort of malfunction than that an omnipotent universe creator outside the spacetime continuum contacted me telepathically, when he won't do it for other people for some reason, unless they are under extraordinary circumstances, or have a mental disorder.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
