(March 4, 2014 at 12:55 pm)Esquilax Wrote:Quote:There's clearly something more at work. About 90% of the world firmly believe there's some kind of God, wheras the "Flat Earth Society" accounts for an uncalculatably small amount of the world's population.
So was there something more at work in the theory of the flat earth when ninety percent of the world believed that was true? Or was it still incorrect, even then?
Quote:Well it was not a spirtual thing, they just assumed, so it was not something they based on faith but the evidence at the time, religion is based on faith and the spiritual realm.
I really wish I could get my parents or someone from our church on here.There's a guy my dad is friends with who spends almost every waking moment with the Bible.
We'll welcome anyone who comes on, so long as they do so in the spirit of discussion and not preaching. Your acquaintances are as welcome as anyone else.
Quote:Yeah but they'd all just say they want to avoid negative people, I remember that guy I mentioned once said he used to not believe because he was "an ignorant, ignorant man". They don't want they're beliefs challenged. They all think you guys are crazy and just trying to sway people away from the truth.
But the whole point of religion is to have faith, which is believing without evidence. If there was evidence, there'd be no point to faith.
What's so great about faith? You can use faith to justify anything, which just means it's not useful in justifying anything. You can have faith in a giant rooster that farted the world into existence seven minutes ago, that doesn't make it true.
I don't know, honestly it seems like a copout from questioning the existance of God.
