What's really mind-boggling about all of this, Rekeisha, is that you want us to take your personal experience as evidence of your claims and accept your personal testimony about what you believe, but you won't accept our personal testimony about what we believed and felt while we were Christians, and you wouldn't accept the personal testimony, visions, prophecies, miracles, or texts of other religions as evidence of their claims. It's pure hypocrisy.
Your religion is not the only one where people feel their prayers have been answered. There are whole scientific studies devoted to prayer, and what science finds is that it has no impact on what a person actually experiences, only how they perceive what they experience. Theists experience and survive hardship and illness at the same rate as the rest of the human population, with or without prayer.
Your religion is not the only one with prophets who see visions and relate the words of their respective deities. All religions have visions and prophecies, and all those visions and prophecies have roughly the same success rate as Christian ones (which is to say their success rate is appallingly low).
Your religion is not the only one that claims miraculous behavior concerning their mythical characters. Various religions make claims about ancient and modern miracles (mostly faith-healings and various deities showing up in stains and toast burns and shit). They all have the same level of evidence (which is to say none), and they all have the same general theme in terms of the gods being much, much more obvious and powerful when there are no cameras and scientists around to see them do this shit, then once modern documentation shows up all they can do is show up in paint spills and use the placebo effect to make people feel a little better while they get over a cold. What, did they all start running out of magic points or something?
Your religion is not the only one whose adherents claim scientific revelation and accuracy in its texts. Muslims are particularly well known for trying to do the same gymnastics with the Koran, and it all amounts to force-fitting texts to science under the presupposition that the Bible is true.
Your religion is not the only one whose adherents insist that their personal experience, perception, revelations, and testimony should be accepted as evidence of the claims they believe. Every religion does that. Every single religion says, "Oh, you just have to experience this for yourself, and then you'll know, and if you don't believe it, you haven't truly experienced it." Every...fucking...religion...does this.
If you applied your current standard of evidence to all the other religions, you would believe in all those, too. You don't, though. You only apply that standard of evidence to other religions and to atheism, while reserving your own beliefs as a special case because it's your own personal experience it's based on and not someone else's. You're a hypocrite.
Sin is not real. Your Gaud is not real. He cannot save you or me because he does not exist, and there is no Hell to save us from.
Your religion is not the only one where people feel their prayers have been answered. There are whole scientific studies devoted to prayer, and what science finds is that it has no impact on what a person actually experiences, only how they perceive what they experience. Theists experience and survive hardship and illness at the same rate as the rest of the human population, with or without prayer.
Your religion is not the only one with prophets who see visions and relate the words of their respective deities. All religions have visions and prophecies, and all those visions and prophecies have roughly the same success rate as Christian ones (which is to say their success rate is appallingly low).
Your religion is not the only one that claims miraculous behavior concerning their mythical characters. Various religions make claims about ancient and modern miracles (mostly faith-healings and various deities showing up in stains and toast burns and shit). They all have the same level of evidence (which is to say none), and they all have the same general theme in terms of the gods being much, much more obvious and powerful when there are no cameras and scientists around to see them do this shit, then once modern documentation shows up all they can do is show up in paint spills and use the placebo effect to make people feel a little better while they get over a cold. What, did they all start running out of magic points or something?
Your religion is not the only one whose adherents claim scientific revelation and accuracy in its texts. Muslims are particularly well known for trying to do the same gymnastics with the Koran, and it all amounts to force-fitting texts to science under the presupposition that the Bible is true.
Your religion is not the only one whose adherents insist that their personal experience, perception, revelations, and testimony should be accepted as evidence of the claims they believe. Every religion does that. Every single religion says, "Oh, you just have to experience this for yourself, and then you'll know, and if you don't believe it, you haven't truly experienced it." Every...fucking...religion...does this.
If you applied your current standard of evidence to all the other religions, you would believe in all those, too. You don't, though. You only apply that standard of evidence to other religions and to atheism, while reserving your own beliefs as a special case because it's your own personal experience it's based on and not someone else's. You're a hypocrite.
Sin is not real. Your Gaud is not real. He cannot save you or me because he does not exist, and there is no Hell to save us from.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
