RE: How Much Evidence Will It Take You To Believe In God???
November 13, 2016 at 3:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2016 at 3:11 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(November 13, 2016 at 9:18 am)Edward John Wrote: We Catholics have another thing Called the catechism it interprets the Bible.
It's called "Pick and choose" what you like and discard what you don't like. Meaning that you already have secular morality in you when you read the Bible. Your morals don't come from the Bible unless you're insane, which proves that god does not exist when even us have greater moral then that fictional being has.
(November 13, 2016 at 9:18 am)Edward John Wrote: For example, you have never seen your great great, ... grandfather.
Yes it's called "missing link". Usually we have documents for people that used to live, but for those that didn't leave any evidence of living except their genetic inheritance in us we can call missing links. Even if you believe you came from Adam who was created 6000 years ago you don't know names of all your forebears and don't have skeletal remains so they are missing links from Adam to you.
(November 13, 2016 at 9:18 am)Edward John Wrote: If God exists in our mind only and is the greatest possible being and object which no greater being and object can be thought of then God by definition is greater than our minds, Therefore God must exist.
Again this "if I can imagine perfect being" but the truth is nobody can imagine perfect being. People just project "values" they think are right. For some it's a being that hates Muslims, for others it's the one that hates foreskins... you get the point. That's why you have god in bible that hates Midianites and I mean really hates them: their kids, their women, men, everything that has to do anything about them YHVH wants them dead.
For this and the rest of your questions I mean really why don't you read a popular science book? I mean we have people here constantly coming with tremendous lack of knowledge in science and they ask the same questions thinking they're so profound. You know some of those questions were profound 400 years ago (although very few), but now they just make you look stupid.
Try reading Richard Dawkins "Magic Of Reality" it was written so that even kids can understand it and it deals with science and particularly the same questions you asked. I mean are you afraid of Dawkins that he's the devil? Did Vatican demonize him so hard that Catholics run for their crosses when they hear his name? What do you have to lose?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
