JUST OPEN YOUR HEART, DAMMIT!

[Iroscato]

Fuck my shit. GC...for the 876 millionth time - IF SOMETHING AS COMPLEX AS THE COSMOS NEEDS A DESIGNER, THEN SOMETHING AS COMPLEX AS A GOD JOLLY FUCKING WELL NEEDS ONE.

Science is still very young, yet has made remarkable leaps in allowing us to understand reality and its origins. It's made your crock of shit utterly redundant as it is, imagine what the next few centuries will bring.

[abaris]

Science is still very young, yet has made remarkable leaps in allowing us to understand reality and its origins.

Humanity is still very young compared to the earth, let alone the universe.

[Athene]

Science does not provide all the answers to everything. Okay....so what? Magic? Every detail of how the universe came to be is not known, so a magic superhero simply SPEAKING the universe into existence with magic words is a logical conclusion? Oh yeah, that makes perfect fucking sense.

God doesn't do magic, just because you and I can't understand how He does it doesn't mean something else did, with God we have a absolute beginning. Why are you avoiding my question about the Holy Spirit, it's a simple thing I ask, it only requires a yes or no.

GC

Relax, Sparky...take it easy, before you burst a vessel. I don't get your Holy Spirit fetish, or what it is that you seem to need for me to say......what's my line here?

You as a Christian, are in fact promoting Biblical magic. Christians, hypocritically refuse to call it magic, but face it GC...that's exactly what it is. The Bible clearly says that your god spoke the world into existence....no mistaking it. That is a spell. A magic spell. Without a tremendous belief in magic, it is impossible to be true believer. All that you seem to be pushing is magic beliefs. You shouldn't get bent out of shape because people can't accept that
magic is real. Come on, GC. Be reasonable.

[Brakeman]

God doesn't do magic, just because you and I can't understand how He does it doesn't mean something else did, with God we have a absolute beginning. Why are you avoiding my question about the Holy Spirit, it's a simple thing I ask, it only requires a yes or no.

GC

SO god didn't make a mud man and blow air up his nostrils to create Adam and he didn't steal a rib bone to make Eve? All that is a lie? Are you really telling me that 2000 years of christians who talked to god daily didn't get it right until YOU came around??

Do you really think that there is a naturally explainable force that turned mud into a massively multicellular entity complete with DNA within the 3 or 4 minute timespan required to sustain life?

No Magic ... Yeah.. Only bullshit!

[Homeless Nutter]

God doesn't do magic[...]

Correct. That's because:
1. There is no such thing as god
2. There is no such thing as magic

[Randy Carson]

Randy, did you read the Quran? Or the Vedas? Or the book of Mormon?

Qur'an and BoM, yes.
Vedas, no.

[Randy Carson]

ask them for one new thing, that theology accomplished in the past 500 years.

They have managed this.....

Let's assume for a moment that the building pictured was sold and that all the money was donated to the poor.

Okay, now what?

The money is all gone, the people get hungry again and the Church has nowhere to meet to A) worship God and B) provide childcare for working mothers and networking opportunities for the unemployed as well as plan the charity work that would actually feed and shelter the poor for the long haul rather than just the few meals they got from the proceeds.

Wealth works best when it is accumulated and put to work in large quantities.

It's hard to think through these issues clearly when you're bitter and angry, Min, but Jesus loves you, and you should go to confession while you still can.

You're not getting any younger, you know.

[Randy Carson]

Fuck my shit. GC...for the 876 millionth time - IF SOMETHING AS COMPLEX AS THE COSMOS NEEDS A DESIGNER, THEN SOMETHING AS COMPLEX AS A GOD JOLLY FUCKING WELL NEEDS ONE.

Theological error.

God is not complex. He is simple. No parts. God is pure spirit; there is nothing material about him.

And no, it does not follow that something outside of creation had to have been designed or created.

Science is still very young, yet has made remarkable leaps in allowing us to understand reality and its origins. It's made your crock of shit utterly redundant as it is, imagine what the next few centuries will bring.

True. As far as it goes. Science deals with the material. See above for why science will not have anything to say about God even in the next few centuries.

But what you have faith in is not just science but scientism. That's a belief system, plain and simple.

[Randy Carson]

God doesn't do magic, just because you and I can't understand how He does it doesn't mean something else did, with God we have a absolute beginning. Why are you avoiding my question about the Holy Spirit, it's a simple thing I ask, it only requires a yes or no.

GC

Relax, Sparky...take it easy, before you burst a vessel. I don't get your Holy Spirit fetish, or what it is that you seem to need for me to say......what's my line here?

You as a Christian, are in fact promoting Biblical magic. Christians, hypocritically refuse to call it magic, but face it GC...that's exactly what it is. The Bible clearly says that your god spoke the world into existence....no mistaking it. That is a spell. A magic spell. Without a tremendous belief in magic, it is impossible to be true believer. All that you seem to be pushing is magic beliefs. You shouldn't get bent out of shape because people can't accept that
magic is real. Come on, GC. Be reasonable.

Words mean things, and they have connotations that can be positive or negative.

Atheists like to use the word "magic" because it demeans God because of its connotations of things that are false or done by some form of trickery that is not understood by the audience but to the magician alone. Now, if you are referring to magic as in Wicca, etc. well, yes, there are ways of tapping into supernatural powers, but fooling with the "Dark Side" is not very wise in the long run.

While the authority and power of God are not really understood by us, either, the parallel is of limited value generally, and I think we both know that you use it because you know it is offensive to theists. That's my bet, anyway.

[Randy Carson]

God doesn't do magic, just because you and I can't understand how He does it doesn't mean something else did, with God we have a absolute beginning. Why are you avoiding my question about the Holy Spirit, it's a simple thing I ask, it only requires a yes or no.

GC

SO god didn't make a mud man and blow air up his nostrils to create Adam and he didn't steal a rib bone to make Eve? All that is a lie? Are you really telling me that 2000 years of christians who talked to god daily didn't get it right until YOU came around??

I can assure you that the only Church which actually IS 2,000 years old does not teach creationism as the only acceptable explanation.

Do you really think that there is a naturally explainable force that turned mud into a massively multicellular entity complete with DNA within the 3 or 4 minute timespan required to sustain life?

Naturally explainable? No. Supernatural, sure.