Thoughts

[KevinM1]

What else did you expect?

Very few come for honest debate.

Or to even understand atheism/atheists honestly.

[JackRussell]

[Shell B]

What else did you expect?

Very few come for honest debate.

I didn't expect anything. I'm pretty sure I've never noticed this person until this very post.

[ignoramus]

It's fascinating to see christer mating rituals in the wild.  

So, I have a question.  Given that christianity has been/needed to be "going back to it's roots" for pretty much the entirety of the last century...particularly in the US, how much soil do you reckon is still at the base of that tree?  Additionally, if it was ever going to help, after all that time going back to whatever roots any of you imagine...why hasn't it?

They dig and dig to find the very core to the tree of divinity and they find a jack-in-the-box instead?
Because the whole concept of organised religion was built on control via self deception.

Get over it theists. Jesus H Christ.

[Jehanne]

I'll finish by saying that as an American I observe that the christian church in America has in large part strayed from the church that Christ founded and is in need of reform.  But it seems that as church congregations shrink, those left behind are the true believers that are going to bring the church back to its roots and the world will again see God through them.  To that end, I intend to use the time that I would have spent in this forum to do God's work for the people around me.  Maybe they'll see God at work, and if thy ask me about him then I'll tell them about him.

Jesus did not found a church; you need to get over that.  He was a Jewish apocalyptic preacher who was born in northern Galilee who preached the end of the World, and with it, the end of Roman occupation.  He was 100% Jewish, and his message was 100% Jewish.  He did not believe himself to be divine, let alone God, or the son of god, nor did he perform any miracles, and no one even claimed that on his behalf.  Eventually, some of his followers convinced him to take his message to Jerusalem.  After arriving, an altercation happened in the Temple and Jesus was arrested.  The Romans interrogated him and after a brief consultation with the Jewish authorities (Roman federalism), the Romans executed Jesus, burying his body in a mass grave.

[Godscreated]

[Crossless2.0]

[Minimalist]

But it seems that as church congregations shrink, those left behind are the true believers that are going to bring the church back to its roots and the world will again see God through them.

Actually, demographics suggest that the ones left behind are the old fucks who are too indoctrinated to leave.

[Amarok]

None of that is proof of evolution, you do not even understand the science you think is real.

Says the idiot that didn't refute any of it.

[Godscreated]

None of that is proof of evolution, you do not even understand the science you think is real.

Actually, none of that is . . . anything you've ever bothered reading.

But what the hell. Enlighten us. In broad strokes, what is the theory of evolution?

I've read it, unlike you I look at opposing arguments. That's called studying, something it seems you want do. You trust in your evolutionary science gods to tell you what to believe and never question they could be wrong, where is that critical thinking atheist chairish. Short but true evolutionary science definition, bunk.

GC

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None of that is proof of evolution, you do not even understand the science you think is real.

Says the idiot that didn't refute any of it.

It's bunk it refutes itself if one uses critical thinking.