RE: Need help for a Sunday School class
April 1, 2012 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2012 at 4:45 pm by mediamogul.)
1) Why is it that god always "selects" the craziest and least reliable people to be "prophets"?
2) Why is it that a Christian can so easily see the falsehood of EVERY other religion but their own when they all demand belief in precisely the same way and on precisely the same grounds?
3) Why is it that christians can be so rational and demand evidence and reason in so many other areas but have this compartmentalized blind spot for religion which they feel perfectly acceptable believing on faith in spite of the mountain of evidence against every one of it's claims?
4)Why is it that christians trust science when it makes their sattelites function, makes their cell phones work and cures their diseases but when the EXACT same scientific claims that these devices and methods are based on contradict their religious claims they suddenly are completely opposed to scientific methods?
5) Why is it that every conversation with a theist includes the same three tired "arguments" a) What if you're wrong? b) Pol Pot, Stalin, and Hitler were atheists so doesn't atheism make you evil? c) So you believe the universe and life just magically appeared?
6) What other system of thought in the world would you allow someone to believe merely on the basis of their "faith" in it? Marxism? Fascism? Nazism? Anarchism?
That's it for now. I've got a million but I doubt they are going towards valid intellectual and scientific pursuits. You appear to have the fundamentalist mindset of no matter what you are not going to give up your beliefs and this is more an excercise in attempting to create apologetics.
2) Why is it that a Christian can so easily see the falsehood of EVERY other religion but their own when they all demand belief in precisely the same way and on precisely the same grounds?
3) Why is it that christians can be so rational and demand evidence and reason in so many other areas but have this compartmentalized blind spot for religion which they feel perfectly acceptable believing on faith in spite of the mountain of evidence against every one of it's claims?
4)Why is it that christians trust science when it makes their sattelites function, makes their cell phones work and cures their diseases but when the EXACT same scientific claims that these devices and methods are based on contradict their religious claims they suddenly are completely opposed to scientific methods?
5) Why is it that every conversation with a theist includes the same three tired "arguments" a) What if you're wrong? b) Pol Pot, Stalin, and Hitler were atheists so doesn't atheism make you evil? c) So you believe the universe and life just magically appeared?
6) What other system of thought in the world would you allow someone to believe merely on the basis of their "faith" in it? Marxism? Fascism? Nazism? Anarchism?
That's it for now. I've got a million but I doubt they are going towards valid intellectual and scientific pursuits. You appear to have the fundamentalist mindset of no matter what you are not going to give up your beliefs and this is more an excercise in attempting to create apologetics.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"All thinking men are atheists." -Ernest Hemmingway
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
