RE: What's not to love?
April 26, 2012 at 12:55 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2012 at 12:55 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(April 26, 2012 at 12:45 am)radorth Wrote: So it seems fair to say that if there is an afterlife, I will end up in the company of at least 50 American Founders, Newton, Bacon, Locke, the abolitionists who were virtually all "fundy" Christians, most if not all leaders of the Enlightenment and revivals which changed the world, Solenzenitzen and probably Mahatma Gandhi.
That's assuming they followed the "true" path of salvation as detailed in the Bible. According to many Christian understandings of salvation, Gandhi is roasting in Hell right now.
(April 26, 2012 at 12:45 am)radorth Wrote: And the more cynical unbelievers here will end up in the company of ...er...Minimalist, Deist Paladin and the Pharisees.
The atheists here sound in so many ways like the Phariees.
It ain't true. Don't believe anything Jesus says. He's a fake. He's crazy. He's not for real. You have to wonder how many atheists really know the difference between honest skepticism and mere cynicism.
The way you know and think of the Pharisees comes from the Gospels which many of us think are obviously almost entirely fiction.
"The atheists here sound in so many ways like Lex Luthor."
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
