RE: What is "FAITH"
July 10, 2013 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2013 at 1:27 pm by Bad Wolf.)
(July 10, 2013 at 1:12 pm)Maelstrom Wrote:(July 10, 2013 at 12:35 pm)Consilius Wrote: What is immoral is that a wrongdoer never gets punishment by any means.
Life is unfair. Justice is not perfect. Sometimes bad people get away without punishment. Sometimes good people are punished for acts they did not commit. It comforts theists to believe that all bad people will suffer after death if they escape punishment during life, but the fact of the matter is that the universe simply does not care about humanity. There is no retribution after death, and for some illogical reason that fact frightens theists more than the sociopathic glee they experience thinking souls suffer at the hands of a tyrant deity.
Totally agree, justice is a human invention, none of that in the wild
(July 10, 2013 at 1:19 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Well, given that human beings don't have an inbuilt mechanism for replenishing an embryos chromosomes to a diploid state... yeah, I feel pretty good about saying it's impossible in humans without scientific intervention.
But all that is secondary anyway; you know what you'd need for anyone to consider the possibility that a human could do it? Evidence of it. You got any? Or is this just another "anything's possible!" handwave to justify nonsense?
I think what with genetic mutations and stuff like that, it would be a bit bold to say it is impossible thats all. I'm not trying to prove it can happen or that it has happened, i'm just thinking aloud. Its kind of like an argument from ignorance except that i'm not really arguing anything. We don't know everything about the human body, i just think it would be better to keep an open mind rather than say things are impossible.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
