(July 8, 2014 at 10:20 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(July 8, 2014 at 9:57 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Nope. It depends on your experiences and the information you have. I could see it as easily leading to agnostic theism or deism, or even Christian Lite, if it's 'lite' enough. I have trouble seeing how skepticism could be reconciled with any form of fundamentalism, though.
I'm kinda on the fence about it myself. If skepticism is withholding belief in something as true without sufficient evidence, then I don't see how anyone could take any religious doctrine as true. But, on the other hand, there are tons of people that genuinely and honestly believe they have personally seen direct evidence or had direct experiences with their God(s), so I guess that's evidence for them. I dunno.
The next time an Xtian tells you to prove a god does not exist - respond -
On the contrary - there have been Thousands of god of thousands of religions. PROVE god is not ALLAH - or Isis - or Rah - or Vishnu - or ........
And worse - you can also say that many of the gods as defined by their relgions actually exist - or existed. I can - without question - prove that the SUN exists. Prove it doesn't!
I can prove that dozens of Egyptian , Mayan , and Incan "gods" - actually lived - we have their remains - and writings from their times. Show me ALL the actual documents that can be dated from the supposed time of the christ that WE HAVE - that even mentions his name.
AND YES - I can say that there never was a person named "Jesus" on earth at that supposed time. No language that existed at that time had a letter "J" - and in proper English - you do not Translate proper names!
