(May 2, 2015 at 4:01 pm)Theoretical Skeptic Wrote:(May 2, 2015 at 2:19 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Every christian is a former atheist turned Bible believer, since you had to not believe first before believing. It's a non-nonsensical phrase. The implied meaning is that "you saw our side" and we were wrong! Nyah!
I am a non-smoker, and heve always been a non-smoker. I studied Pre-med in College before later changing majors but I did get a healthy interest in Anatomy and disease. So with my studies, I can give many terrific reasons that it is wrong to take up smoking. My arguments against smoking are vastly different than someone's who just thought it was stinky and made them cough. Similarly, as a Former christian, son of a loudmouth argumentative Southern Baptist preacher, and who has been interested in debunking all the lies that he heard all through his childhood by studying theology and ancient archeology, I am sure that I am a much different atheist than the one you claimed to have been.
You sound very secure in your beliefs. Have you ever studied the history of the medical profession in the united states? The battle of the allopathic vs. the imperical or homeopathic medicine? The A.M.A. under the influence of big business and the pharmaceutical industry. It wasn't so long ago that smoking was encouraged by the medical profession, was it? All doctors used to smoke.
You reference a time when very little of the scientific method was in use and superstition and religion were more paramount. Of course pre-modern medicine was primitive and wrong about many things. but then we started using the scientific method and questioned, experimented and observed empirically causing our knowledge to shoot up. New discoveries build upon our previous observations and with each iteration our medical knowledge is fine tuned. We may change our biological models of certain diseases as replacement test results come in, but we will never ever go back to the "SIN" and "Demons" disease model of the bible in my opinion, so yeah, I'm very secure in my beliefs.
As we can't get into such deep discussion here on an introductory thread, point out a discussion thread that you would like to continue on and dig deeper.
I mentioned "sock" earlier because we just had a theist leave that seemed similar to me, but if not, I'm glad for fresh discussions, so welcome.
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