One question for Christians

[DeistPaladin]

How convenient!

Atheists: “Jesus never existed!”
Theists: *Point out how absurd that position is
Atheists: “Well it doesn’t really matter if he existed anyways!”

It's called "different people having different opinions".

The only thing atheists have in common is believing in one less god than you do.

[Bad Writer]

Truly, you don't think I can say with 100% certainty that he did or did not exist. I'm just pointing out that it's silly either way to get caught up in such a trap.

[Statler Waldorf]

It's called "different people having different opinions".

The only thing atheists have in common is believing in one less god than you do.

Oh stop it! Atheists (and apparently agnostic deists) actually have more in common than many Christians. I’ve been debating atheists and Christians for years now and can assure you that for a group of supposed free thinkers atheists are the largest group of “goose steppers” I’ve ever encountered. It makes debating them rather easy though because you never run into any argument even slightly resembling novelty.

Truly, you don't think I can say with 100% certainty that he did or did not exist. I'm just pointing out that it's silly either way to get caught up in such a trap.

History does not really deal with 100% certainty, but the existence of Jesus is as certain as any other figure from that time period.

[Brakeman]

[Minimalist]

I’ve been debating atheists and Christians for years now and can assure you that for a group of supposed free thinkers atheists are the largest group of “goose steppers” I’ve ever encountered.

A ridiculous comment coming from one of the sheep who unquestioningly accepts every bit of bullshit in an absurd old book. But, you should be used to looking ridiculous by now.

[Brakeman]

I’ve been debating atheists and Christians for years now and can assure you that for a group of supposed free thinkers atheists are the largest group of “goose steppers” I’ve ever encountered.

A ridiculous comment coming from one of the sheep who unquestioningly accepts every bit of bullshit in an absurd old book. But, you should be used to looking ridiculous by now.

Yes, it is really ridiculous that sane rational people keep "goose stepping" towards reality and rational thinking. It must amaze SW that we don't bell curve towards Mystical magic, psychotic rituals, and psychic communication with beings in imaginary dimensions.

[Bad Writer]

Somehow I'm now imagining SW being involved in one of those faith-healing-gone-wrong debacles. If it's rational to believe in the god of the Bible, it only makes sense to think that if the power of Zombie Christ can heal the blinded Saul of Tarsus, that it will do the same for the afflicted of today who hold enough faith. When the faith healing fails, the faith of the victim or those helping the victim is always what's at fault, isn't it?

[catfish]

[Bad Writer]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312698/

Nice god of the gaps attempt there. Obviously, anything that we can't explain naturally must have a supernatural cause. Kinda like how Astronomers couldn't explain for the longest time how planets kept their orbits or moved the way that they did in the night sky; was the answer for that particular phenomenon god? If you answer "no", then you're a blasphemer.

[catfish]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3312698/

Nice god of the gaps attempt there. Obviously, anything that we can't explain naturally must have a supernatural cause. Kinda like how Astronomers couldn't explain for the longest time how planets kept their orbits or moved the way that they did in the night sky; was the answer for that particular phenomenon god? If you answer "no", then you're a blasphemer.

lol, I don't need a god to demonstrate the effectiveness of "faith", research the placebo effect...