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In need of a book suggestion
December 28, 2015 at 12:28 am
I need a book, or even a good website that can help a Christian understand atheism. So much I see just trashes Christianity and that's not what I want to do I just want to show how my world makes sense with no god.
Any one have any suggestions?
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RE: In need of a book suggestion
December 28, 2015 at 12:31 am
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RE: In need of a book suggestion
December 28, 2015 at 12:32 am
Not much for even a Christian brain to understand.
We atheists are still waiting for the Christ folks to come up with some real proof.
Walk on the fucking water, raise the dead, regenerate a severed limb, handle deadly serpents, drink poison (and live of course), that sort of thing.
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RE: In need of a book suggestion
December 28, 2015 at 12:39 am
(December 28, 2015 at 12:28 am)Sara0229 Wrote: I need a book, or even a good website that can help a Christian understand atheism. So much I see just trashes Christianity and that's not what I want to do I just want to show how my world makes sense with no god.
Any one have any suggestions?
Just read the bible. Read it as if you personally just discovered it and make your own mind up about it. Try and judge for yourself and ask yourself does this read more like a book of old myths and fairy tales or an actual historical account of talking snakes and magic boats.
I don't know what you mean by how the world makes sense with no god. From the atheist perspective there already is no god and every factual educational book about the world and the universe shows how the world and the universe makes sense and they don't include god.
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RE: In need of a book suggestion
December 28, 2015 at 12:50 am
(December 28, 2015 at 12:39 am)paulpablo Wrote: (December 28, 2015 at 12:28 am)Sara0229 Wrote: I need a book, or even a good website that can help a Christian understand atheism. So much I see just trashes Christianity and that's not what I want to do I just want to show how my world makes sense with no god.
Any one have any suggestions?
Just read the bible. Read it as if you personally just discovered it and make your own mind up about it. Try and judge for yourself and ask yourself does this read more like a book of old myths and fairy tales or an actual historical account of talking snakes and magic boats.
I don't know what you mean by how the world makes sense with no god. From the atheist perspective there already is no god and every factual educational book about the world and the universe shows how the world and the universe makes sense and they don't include god.
No my point was that her world only makes sense if there is a god, she can't rationalize life without some spirituality and a mystic man doing I don't know what, but my world doesn't make sense if there is a god because I just don't believe any of it. I believe in facts and I want to see research. We may not know all the answers to every question but that doesn't prove there's a god we just haven't evolved our knowledge to that point yet.
She is open minded and just wants to understand my point of view but I can't seem to explain it in a way that makes sense to her.
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RE: In need of a book suggestion
December 28, 2015 at 12:53 am
(December 28, 2015 at 12:50 am)Sara0229 Wrote: No my point was that her world only makes sense if there is a god, she can't rationalize life without some spirituality and a mystic man doing I don't know what, but my world doesn't make sense if there is a god because I just don't believe any of it. I believe in facts and I want to see research. We may not know all the answers to every question but that doesn't prove there's a god we just haven't evolved our knowledge to that point yet.
She is open minded and just wants to understand my point of view but I can't seem to explain it in a way that makes sense to her.
You explained it just fine right there, and if she cannot understand your position from what you have shared above then she is lost.
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