Quote: The human race comes from God so we are like him because he is the originator.
That’s a claim that you can’t back up. However, this is something I’m getting very used to, when briefly talking with theists. “I know exactly how many stars are in the universe at any given time.” That’s what your claim looks to non-believers.
Quote:Let take me and my mother for instance. I look like my mother she doesn't look like me because she existed before me and I get some of my DNA from her.
You’re wrong there. If one things looks like another, then they look like each other.. If Mountain X looks like Mountain Y, then they look like each other, no matter what order you phrase them into a sentence. If Mountain Y looks like X, you can’t say that Y doesn’t like X, it doesn’t any make sense. This has no relevance to anything, so we can just drop that.
Quote:By what means do you judge God?
Well, I don’t know a god, so it would be hard for me to judge one. Nevertheless, I can look at our world as critically as possible, and see a lot of messed up stuff going on every single day. All you need to do is turn on the news for a few minutes to see a murder, rape, people starving to death everyday, etc. To me, if there is a god, that god doesn’t care about us, or is a deistic god that just doesn’t intervene at all. Does god choose one person to save in a natural disaster over another? Does god choose to prevent one rape, but not another? Many christians seem to think he intervenes in these type of ways. If you believe that, then you’re a little crazy. “Thank you god for the food on the table, thanks for answering our prayers.” Meanwhile, in a 3rd world country, there are christians crying out to god, and he doesn’t answer. It seems that your god doesn’t intervene or prefers you to other people starving to death.. which doesn't sound like the characteristics of a god that loves us all the same.
Quote:How can you claim what is right and wrong?
First off, I think morality is subjective, so, I can claim whatever I want about it. You’re allowed to think spray painting a blasphemous phrase on a church is wrong, I’m allowed to think raping someone is wrong, and John Doe may think killing someone for no reason is ok. Some people will disagree with me on some things, some will disagree on many things. Most civilized people can agree that going out and raping, murdering, and stealing is wrong, hence, we as a people, decided that the law should include those things in order to attempt to protect everyone else from those things, that most of us would agree is wrong.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
