RE: Present a BETTER worldview
September 22, 2010 at 2:15 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2010 at 4:56 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 22, 2010 at 2:02 am)blood_pardon Wrote: Tell me when is the last time a Buddhist tried to convince you about spiritual things? A jew? Muslim? Hindu? African witch doctor? Maybe at some point in your life someone has (i know there are some muslims here) but 99 percent of the time its a Christian in your life reminding you again and again maybe not directly but their there and you hear it. Over and over again you have heard that you sir are in a desperate condition and NEED a savior. This sir is God trying to get your attention, believe it or not.This is why I like christianity the least of most of the major religions. I can deal with the irrational beliefs, but only Christians try so very aggressively to convince me to believe in their irrational beliefs. Plus, some of those religions are far more rational in many ways.
Be that as it may, christians are not god. Since Christians are not god, their constant annoyance is not a direct representative of God attempting to get my attention so much as Christians being very annoying.
(September 22, 2010 at 2:02 am)blood_pardon Wrote: Coming to the conclusion that God created the universe doesn't solve all mysteries your right. Once you reach this understanding then you can begin to focus on what ACTUALLY MATTERS, like what is God? what has He been doing for all eternity? What's next? How should I live?No, but the problem is that it presents more problems than you've solved.
Essentially, not only didn't you not solve the problem of how the universe and life came to be, but now you have to prove how and why this being exists.
(September 22, 2010 at 2:02 am)blood_pardon Wrote: So then you have completley eliminated the possibiltiy of intelligent design even though you have no BETTER explanation.Intelligent design is nothing. It solves, predicts, and answers nothing about anything. It's not an explaination at all. It's philosophy based on zero empirical evidence.
(September 22, 2010 at 2:02 am)blood_pardon Wrote: I never meant to imply that God is a simple being. We might go through all eternity trying to get a grasp on what it is He even is. That's what heaven is all about I think. Marvelous revelation after revelation after revelation.I believe the wise philosopher Murderface stated this best: "I'd rather die than go to heaven."
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
