(February 13, 2013 at 1:43 pm)Drich Wrote:(February 12, 2013 at 5:41 pm)Chuck Wrote: Because the development of science and technology points overwhelmingly to a reality incompatible to centrality of god.Why?
Because you only understand god to be mythical? What if 'God' can be now classified as a 'Transdemsional being?" does it make Him any less God simply because we have expanded our vocabulary? Does our vocabulary somehow superceed what this being has done?
Quote:A religionist is either stupid, or disingenuious, or both, if he avails himself the benefit that something that was only made to work because of the strength of the world view which expells god from centrality, while clinging ostentatiously via words to the centrality of god.Or maybe, one needs to open his mind a little and not assume he knows how a 'religionist' should think when he claims not to be one.
(February 13, 2013 at 1:28 pm)Alternate Wrote: Why a sunflower as your avatar, Drich?
I took that picture in my darkest time, it was/is a reminder of however dark it gets, their is hope.
(February 13, 2013 at 1:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Not compared to this.....
David, Ran from those who persued Him for a time. Christ intentionally kept a low profile (telling the deciples not to tell anyone He was God) until the time was right. I am not a big fan of the pope, but protecting yourself from the evil this world may want to visit on you is not a matter of faith.
(February 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, it's just a coincidence that 'God' had to wait for medical science before 'he' could deal with so many medical conditions.
How do you know this to be true?
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Of course protecting oneself IS NOT a matter of faith, that's reality, and you don't need a god or a pope to buy bullet proof glass, own a gun, or join the military.
Do you need Allah to protect yourself? Do you need to be a Muslim to have a gun in your house? No and you don't need faith either. The bullet proof glass makes the idea of an all powerful god pointless and exposes the absurd concept for the fraud it really is.
The Pope protects himself because that is reality, but the reality that someone may want to kill someone else for ANY reason, doesn't make stupid stories of Superman vs Lex Luthor real.
