Fifty Questions That Christians Can't Answer

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If it doesn't apply, why did you bother? It's addressed to Christians.

I'm not a biblical literalist, neither are most Christians.

Yes, I got that, but you also are not a Christian, which, again, this article is addressed to. That is not to say that you shouldn't attempt to answer the questions. However, I would say you are taking it rather hard for a person who should not be insulted by it at all.

The author did not suggest that such a world would make him happy, though I am sure it would be fun. The author was pointing out the fact that if god were perfect than he wouldn't have created such things as childhood leukemia, pedophilia, genocide, etc.

Ah, okay. That's not quite what he said, but whatever.

Not not quite, not at all.

You've never heard of people being "healed" temporarily?

No, actually, I haven't. Is this a "faith-healing" thing?

Yes, it is.

Come on. Like you don't know about Creationist claims that the bible alludes to a "young Earth."

My point still stands. The Bible itself never says "Oh by the way, this is how old the earth is."

The point is that claims have been made that the Earth is that old, judging by bible passages. I am the last person to agree with that claim. However, the claims have been made nonetheless. The author is obviously directing that at people who believe that, not Jews and atheists.

*sigh*

Oh gee, sorry for giving a different point of view. I'll make a point of never doing that again.

Are you a teenager? Don't get offended, please. I am just asking.

I'm not Christian either, but I don't think that Christians believe in Hades, at least by that name.

Actually, they do.

(Crap, apparently I can't post links until I reach ten posts. That's kind of lame. Anyway, search "Hades" on Wikipedia, and there's a section called "Hades in Christianity".)

However, I'm not sure of the specifics. Not really a big deal since it doesn't concern me.

Sorry, I don't rely on Wikipedia for information. It's rarely reliable. It doesn't concern me either, anyway.

Or why don't we take it down a notch and say "What good is free will if we don't get to have premarital sex?"

Funnily enough, the Hebrew Bible never actually says "no premarital sex". Maybe the NT does, I'm not sure.

Funnily enough, I didn't mention the bible at all.

While you're at it, point me to a Christian that doesn't argue against evolution. I haven't seen one of them in a while. Wink

Damn, do you live in the Bible belt or something? I've never met a Christian who's been seriously anti-evolution (though I know a Muslim who is). For example, Catholicism is accepting of evolution.

No, I most assuredly do not live in the bible belt. Seeing that I have the internet, it wouldn't be difficult to meet many people that are anti-evolution.

So, you can have sex whenever you want in Judaism?

Pretty much. Therefore, Judaism = best religion

That's not my understanding of it.

I laughed at the first part and agreed with the second.

What's funny about free-will? Jew-God goes out of His way to make sure we keep it.

Free will granted by the sky wizard is funny, not free will in itself.

Why wouldn't we?

Because we're supposed to live this life as well as we can, I already addressed that.

And I already personally discounted it.

I'll give you that. But, if you start denying that a shitload of wars have been perpetrated by believers in the name of god, I'm just going to have to bow out of this discussion.

True as that may be, I'm of the opinion most of those wars would have happened anyway. Religion just serves as the justification - even if it didn't exist, assholes would find reasons to kill each other.

I am of the belief that they would have been less evil, if they hadn't been operating under the false assumption that they had god's permission.

Tell me where he mentioned the Tanakh (sounds like a sneeze) or the New Testament.

This is addressed to Christians. The Tanakh ("old testament") and NT are their only holy books, and nowhere is heaven so described, meaning that such descriptions are unbiblical and are no more Christian doctrine than Dante's description of Hell.

This guy disagrees.