(April 8, 2014 at 12:12 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(April 8, 2014 at 2:07 am)Cinjin Wrote: Again - that phrase is taken from the same book that makes the claim of his deity.
With that sort of logic, every religion can argue that they have proof of their deity simply by drawing attention to the witnesses they wrote in for themselves.
Indeed. The faithful are unable to point to anything pertaining to their pet gods that doesn't come from their mythology. It's the only place where such things exist and the fact they don't even try to deny it or even realise it - until they're forced to retreat into personal experience, which can be dismissed out of hand barring evidence never proffered - does nothing to contradict that. They don't worship a god; they worship a book.
Of course they worship a book. It's a magic book, such that, everything in it is absolutely true. Even when the book is obviously wrong -- it's still magically right -- just add lame excuses, word games, and threats of hell.
As an added bonus the book is vague and ambiguous so it can be construed to mean anything the believer wants it to mean -- so it's an always handy-dandy excuse for any kind of bad behavior the believer wants to engage in without having to be accountable for that behavior, because -- magic storybook said so.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- don't pollute it with bullshit.
