My Questions For Christians

[vorlon13]

Perhaps the wails of the damned are nourishing ?

[ignoramus]

You're wasting your time Boru.
Why would they reply when you just jokingly mock them?

It's not exactly like the bible is one big joke or anything!
Theists, I'm sorry! That came out wrong, I swear!

[brewer]

Perhaps the wails of the damned are nourishing ?

Do they slough?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You're wasting your time Boru.
Why would they reply when you just jokingly mock them?

It's not exactly like the bible is one big joke or anything!
Theists, I'm sorry! That came out wrong, I swear!

Glad you brought that up.  There is indeed an element of mockery in the questions I posted, but it isn't directed at Christians.

All too often, I see non-theists post questions that are either imponderables that theologians have failed to adequately answer for centuries, or questions of the have-you-stopped-beating-your wife type.  And, very frequently, Christians who attempt to answer the questions in terms of their faith are sneered at for doing do.  It's as if because CL or Neo can't solve the 'First Cause' conundrum in a few paragraphs on an internet message board that their whole faith is some kind of tissue of hypocrisies, that they don't really believe because they can't answer a *gotcha*-type question.

So, any mockery was directed at these types of questioners, not at the respondents.

Boru

[ignoramus]

But as intelligent atheists, we know they believe. Belief is all they have. Belief is all they need. It says so right there in the bible.

Nobody mocks them for believing anything.

They constantly shoot themselves in the foot because they're not content with belief alone.

They take it upon themselves to validate their beliefs against our reality as described by science.

Why would they want to do that? Why would they need to do that?

Is faith alone not enough for them? When did theology start evolving into a scientific endeavour?

We're genuinely curious to hear their reasoning.