RE: Personal experience II - the sequel
August 16, 2010 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2010 at 7:50 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(August 16, 2010 at 6:23 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: No one has ever returned from a personal experience with god with any new information. Why? Surely god would have given someone, something of value or something we did not know. Instead nothing, silence, indifference to our plight and our need for knowledge. Instead the only gains we have made is through our own hard work and application of critical methods and thinking. The one thing he could do to verify a personal experience he refuses to do. All this is much more likely assuming atheism is true. Is it asking to much for just 1 of the billions of encounters people have had with god would have yielded something useful to us or new to us?Indeed,
This isn't different from predictions of future events and messages from beyond the veil as all points are extremely vague and no one can say for certain what actually happened except that it wasn't insignificant to the point to where even the eyewitness him or herself has to 'interpret' what has happened.
Honestly, UFO encounters are more consistent across eyewitness accounts, often more than a single eye-witness for a single event, and vastly more credible in the cases that aren't outright falsified or hoaxes. (I'm not even joking.)
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
