(September 2, 2010 at 8:28 am)ibelieve04142000 Wrote: Listen to say there is no God is making an absolute statement. That's like saying there is no gold in China.Saying there is no god and saying there is no gold in china is most certainly not the same thing.
Gold is actually something that I can hold in my hand. I have held it in my hand and I can find more gold both raw and worked to see it personally. I can even see mines were gold is dug up and I can even become a miner of gold, so even if I've never been to china and I don't know if there is a market of chinese gold, I can extrapolate that it wouldn't be too inconcievable that there are gold mines in china.
God has nothing. He cannot be met personally. He can not be talked to directly. More than half the planet doesn't believe that he exists and virtually every individual person has a different account for how god works.
Every book on china and/or chinese mining operations is consistent worldwide.
See the difference? I can say 'there is no god' with far more certainty than 'there is no gold in china'.
(September 2, 2010 at 8:28 am)ibelieve04142000 Wrote: You have made an absolute statement. You must have all knowlege of everything in the universe to make a statement like that. You all pretend like your the "there is no God" expert. You say prove there is a God, and I say prove that there isn't a God! Until next time.There are no absolute certainties in anything. I don't need to know everything about the universe to know there is no god because no being of such 'magnitude' has ever made any kind of thumbprint anywhere. I have nothing other the imaginings of a few primitive men of the bronze age.
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
