Grad student seeking atheist to interview

[Rahn127]

It would seem from your initial post Brooke, that you want to gain some insight into rational thought.

Your words were "to gain insight into the culture of scientists and thinkers"

To me that implies an insight into rational thought.
And it implies that you currently don't have a rational thought process to base your beliefs on.

Nearly all of us on the forum can help you with this problem if you let us. Step by step we can help you think more rationally.

Let us help you.

[vulcanlogician]

I have an assignment that involves interviewing a non-believer (preferably an atheist), who is in a STEMM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine). 

Wow. The humanities don't get any respect, even with rando online "I need to interview you for seminary" shit.

[Fake Messiah]

It seems this grad student will never graduate.

[brookelauren25]

Mermaid, I found someone and completed my paper but thank you so much for offering to help me! I really appreciate it.

HappySkeptic, If you don't mind me asking, how has your training led you away from theism the past 10 years (though not initially?) Do you feel there is a disconnect between science and faith?

Rahn127, There were witnesses who saw Jesus resurrected and there are many good reasons to believe their accounts. There are more reasons than just this, but it is rational to be a Christian. Now if Jesus wasn't resurrected, none of us are saved and there was no atonement. Christianity differs from all other religions of the world in that there is a means of salvation by grace through faith, and not by works.

[The Grand Nudger]

Witnesses see me causing the sun to rise with my morning shit, too. If that’s not how the sun rises, then I wouldn’t have magical powers. My morning shit is unique on account of how it makes the sun rise.

Sounds absurd, silly..even…huh? Imagine sounding like that.

[Rahn127]

Mermaid, I found someone and completed my paper but thank you so much for offering to help me! I really appreciate it.

HappySkeptic, If you don't mind me asking, how has your training led you away from theism the past 10 years (though not initially?) Do you feel there is a disconnect between science and faith?

Rahn127, There were witnesses who saw Jesus resurrected and there are many good reasons to believe their accounts. There are more reasons than just this, but it is rational to be a Christian. Now if Jesus wasn't resurrected, none of us are saved and there was no atonement. Christianity differs from all other religions of the world in that there is a means of salvation by grace through faith, and not by works.

There are stories about a character named Yeshua written some 70 years after this characters supposed death. There are no contemporary accounts of this character written in any other historical writings of the time. There are no first hand accounts of anyone knowing the character Yeshua. There are no writings or books written by the character Yeshua. They are all 2nd or 3rd handed accounts, again written by people 70 years after this characters death.

The comic book Spiderman has detailed drawings of the city of New York and there is someone named Peter Parker who lives in New York. There is more evidence for the existence of Spiderman than there ever will be for your Jesus aka Yeshua.

So no, it is not rational to be a Christian.

[Fireball]

Witnesses see me causing the sun to rise with my morning shit, too.  If that’s not how the sun rises, then I wouldn’t have magical powers.  My morning shit is unique on account of how it makes the sun rise.  

Sounds absurd, silly..even…huh?  Imagine sounding like that.

  MY shit causeth the sun to rise, you poser! You'd best subscribe to the Fireball God, while you still have time. 

[The Grand Nudger]

Pointless. Christians don’t believe in Jesus, or even a historical Jesus.

They believe in a Christ.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Mermaid, I found someone and completed my paper but thank you so much for offering to help me! I really appreciate it.

HappySkeptic, If you don't mind me asking, how has your training led you away from theism the past 10 years (though not initially?) Do you feel there is a disconnect between science and faith?

Rahn127, There were witnesses who saw Jesus resurrected and there are many good reasons to believe their accounts. There are more reasons than just this, but it is rational to be a Christian. Now if Jesus wasn't resurrected, none of us are saved and there was no atonement. Christianity differs from all other religions of the world in that there is a means of salvation by grace through faith, and not by works.

Umm, as it turns out Brooke, there are no contemporary accounts to show Jesus even existed as an historical person. The Gospels were written not less than 50 years after the death of Jesus, by unknown authors. The names ascribed were done so as a scholarly convenience centuries after the the gospels were written.

The Epistles of Saul (those pretty much accepted as genuine)  were written before any of the gospels. They were written by a man who had never met Jesus. Saul  had an hallucination and fell off his horse on the road to Damascus. Rather than god speaking to him, it's far more reasonable to think the poor chap had an epileptic seizure or perhaps suffered from schizophrenia.

Many protestant denominations claim salvation comes through faith alone, that view is contrary to catholic teaching.  Citing St James:

James 2 14-26 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[b] and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.
25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.




There are no new ideas in Christianity,in moral teachings, cosmology or theology.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mermaid, I found someone and completed my paper but thank you so much for offering to help me! I really appreciate it.

HappySkeptic, If you don't mind me asking, how has your training led you away from theism the past 10 years (though not initially?) Do you feel there is a disconnect between science and faith?

Rahn127, There were witnesses who saw Jesus resurrected and there are many good reasons to believe their accounts. There are more reasons than just this, but it is rational to be a Christian. Now if Jesus wasn't resurrected, none of us are saved and there was no atonement. Christianity differs from all other religions of the world in that there is a means of salvation by grace through faith, and not by works.

So much for this, eh?

 it is NOT a covert evangelism project!

You lying shitsack, you.

THIS is why we don't allow this. If it weren't for interfering with the actions of another member of staff, I'd ban you.

Boru