Grad student seeking atheist to interview

[brewer]

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.

(bold) Pathetic. The seminary school must be desperate. Apparently they'll accept any regurgitator.

[brookelauren25]

Thanks again to all the people who were helpful. As for everyone else, good luck to you.

I can see this particular forum is not going to be a good place for me. If anyone else wants to speak to me privately, I will check my messages for a few more days. I won't be checking this thread anymore. Unfortunately a few people have to ruin it for everybody. Oldandeasilyconfused, if you are interested, you can send me a private message and I will address the scripture you presented. I don't want to be somewhere I am not wanted.

[brewer]

Your perceived entitlement to preach (poorly) was your downfall. Nobody to blame but yourself.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Thanks again to all the people who were helpful. As for everyone else, good luck to you.

I can see this particular forum is not going to be a good place for me. If anyone else wants to speak to me privately, I will check my messages for a few more days. I won't be checking this thread anymore. Unfortunately a few people have to ruin it for everybody. Oldandeasilyconfused, if you are interested, you can send me a private message and I will address the scripture you presented. I don't want to be somewhere I am not wanted.

It’s not that you aren’t wanted, it’s that you’re here under false pretenses - you said that wasn’t a ‘covert evangelism project’, then proceeded to evangelize.

Not only that, you broke a rule (which you agreed to when you created your account) by asking for help with a school project. The overwhelming majority of people who do that find themselves banned instantly. 

On second thought, it IS that you aren’t wanted here after all.

BorU

[Ranjr]

It's fun when atheists are more familiar with ancient writings and scholarship than apologists.  There's a clear reason for that.  Theism is not at odds with, as the OP angles, STEMM related occupations.  It's at odds with the broader practice of critical thinking.  Simply asking oneself about ideas and stories offered by theists, "does this make sense?" and being honest and thorough in one's answer is more than enough to dismiss theism.

[Rahn127]

Thanks again to all the people who were helpful. As for everyone else, good luck to you.

I can see this particular forum is not going to be a good place for me. If anyone else wants to speak to me privately, I will check my messages for a few more days. I won't be checking this thread anymore. Unfortunately a few people have to ruin it for everybody. Oldandeasilyconfused, if you are interested, you can send me a private message and I will address the scripture you presented. I don't want to be somewhere I am not wanted.

Yes, when the king has no clothes, a few people can ruin it for everybody. It can be quite disarming when people poke holes in your delusional thoughts.

Imagine if you had a close friend who believed very strongly that they had won the million dollar lottery, yet made excuses for why they hadn't received any money yet.

That is what we have to deal with every day. We've heard all the arguments. We've heard all the excuses and yet no one on the face of the planet has any credible evidence for the existence of ANY god, let alone a specific god.

Stay a bit longer and challenge yourself to justify why you believe the things you believe.

It will be worth your time.

[Astreja]

Thanks again to all the people who were helpful. As for everyone else, good luck to you.

I can see this particular forum is not going to be a good place for me. If anyone else wants to speak to me privately, I will check my messages for a few more days. I won't be checking this thread anymore. Unfortunately a few people have to ruin it for everybody...

You are that person, Brooke.  You pulled a fucking bait-and-switch on us, pretending to be an academic and then resorting to cheap, sophomoric preaching that we've all heard a thousand times before.  If you've made it all the way to "graduate student" without being exposed to the problem of the Gospels not being contemporaneous eye-witness accounts, you've wasted your tuition money on a degree that will be worthless in the real world.

May you lose your faith and never regain it.

[brookelauren25]

You all consider what I said to be preaching?! I highly doubt that. I think it's called NIT-PICKING and LOOKING FOR ANYTHING TO CRITICIZE! Just because.

You don't know me IRL so I don't take this personally, I just know now this isn't the place for me. I enjoy discussion with people of different opinions and beliefs. But this is no discussion - the people that want to have a discussion are the minority and that's a shame because this could have been interesting.

[Mister Agenda]

You all consider what I said to be preaching?! I highly doubt that. I think it's called NIT-PICKING and LOOKING FOR ANYTHING TO CRITICIZE! Just because.

You don't know me IRL so I don't take this personally, I just know now this isn't the place for me. I enjoy discussion with people of different opinions and beliefs. But this is no discussion - the people that want to have a discussion are the minority and that's a shame because this could have been interesting.

It would have been taken a lot better, I think, if you had brought it up in a thread other than the one where you promised you weren't here to preach. It's not like theists haven't made the exact same claim here dozens of times before without getting their heads bitten off. Everyone had their guard up because of the old 'graduate student seeks to interview an atheist' thing, which we get a LOT, and usually the graduate student gets to preaching in the thread where they were originally 'just asking questions'.

At any rate, good luck wherever you go next.

[Ranjr]

You all consider what I said to be preaching?! I highly doubt that. I think it's called NIT-PICKING and LOOKING FOR ANYTHING TO CRITICIZE! Just because.

You don't know me IRL so I don't take this personally, I just know now this isn't the place for me. I enjoy discussion with people of different opinions and beliefs. But this is no discussion - the people that want to have a discussion are the minority and that's a shame because this could have been interesting.

I don't consider what you said to be preaching.  I consider it making unsubstantiated claims that are easily rejected.  If that doesn't pique your interest, then your claim that this could have been interesting is another lie.