RE: Two babies discussion.
February 21, 2015 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2015 at 2:54 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 13, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Lek Wrote: How can you even say this? People have been worshiping gods since our beginnings, since it is evident in the creation. People have always sensed that there must be a god.
That is only evidence of the human assumption that causes require agency.
People have been killing each other since the beginning, too. Does that mean killing one another is right?
(February 13, 2015 at 9:11 pm)Lek Wrote: I don't discount scientific theories. I'm open to learning from science everything I can. I just don't rely on science for what it is inadequate to show or prove to me.
Given your admitted ignorance of science, you're hardly in a position to decide its capabilities.
(February 14, 2015 at 3:07 pm)Lek Wrote: Not so. I think most communists thought they were doing good by killing people of faith.
This is incorrect. Religious people weren't killed wholesale. The vast majority of the Russian population was religious; killing people because they were religious would have depopulated the country.
Orthodox priests were put into camps insofar as they resisted the state's appropriation of church property. If they didn't resist, they were left alone.
(February 14, 2015 at 9:38 pm)Lek Wrote: Christianity does nothing bad. People do bad. If people follow christianity and do what it teaches they will do good. If people do bad things and try to use christianity to justify themselves, that's not christianity. You guys are saying christianity is a bad thing when it's not. You tell me christianity does this and that, and I think - "christianity doesn't do that!"
Matthew, in chapter 7, verses 16-20, Wrote:16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ew+7:16-20