PROOF! A QUESTION FOR THE ATHIEST...
It is interesting that this site would use the term RATIONAL to describe it's cause. It seems quite irrational to claim with such certainty that there is no God.
You have NO proof that God doesn't exist and I therefore question your integrity. It would seem that, at best, you would be forced to admit your lack of surety and label yourself as a seeker of truth, as opposed to a possessor of it.
Please explain how you could mock something you don't know for sure isn't real?
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I'm not even going to count all the replies and questions you just ignored.
Say, are you by any chance mistaking this discussion forum for your own personal blog ?
Still pretty sure that BELOVED has been crapping on my lawn. She's been unable to prove otherwise.
It's a song from an old movie of the same title. Fortunately, from what I can see of it in this clip, I have never watched the movie.
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=in+the+cool+of+the+day
Didn't listen to all of it, but it sounds just the sort of stuff that would appeal to our Beloved.
-- I feel so much better since I stopped trying to believe.
"We are entitled to our own opinions. We're not entitled to our own facts"- Al Franken
"If death isn't sweet oblivion, I will be severely disappointed" - Ruth M.
I think I saw a cherry ..right over there --->
The Bible proves itself to not be true. Take Matt 21:22 for example, "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." The meaning of that verse is very clear but it doesn't happen. If you are true with yourself, you would have to admit that you have prayed for things that didn't happen. Then you came up with an excuse as to why they didn't happen or you accepted someone else's excuse because you want or need to believe or, like most Christians, you are afraid to entertain any thought that would make you feel like you were questioning God.
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe. - Carl Sagan
Prayer has no place in the public schools, just like facts have no place in organized religion. - School Superintendent on "The Simpsons" episode #1
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A bunch of things popped up and I didn't see what you were referring to. So I went to youtube. Found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVRXCXeShw
Trying to embed here with old embed code so I might need a mod assist.
Although it is a depressing song, a dirge, sheeple should love it. They can be all sad and shit and feel supernatural.
So what is the way to keep his people free?
a) free from thought
b) free from living in a country where there are atheist, gays and non-believers
c) free to living in a fantasy world without challenge
d) free to take away the freedom of those who don't believe like them, say bring back stoning.
e) free to turn "free" countries into theoracies
f) free to turn back the clock on education and science
Religion Kills !!!
Numbers 31:17-18 - Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
http://jesus-needs-money.blogspot.com/
Sorry for referring to old post, but it looks like this argument is unanswered and rather shifted on historicity, logic, evidence, etc. Everything else is excellently answered by Bob, Harleysportster, etc.
Just because some book claims property on this mysterious phenomenon, doesn't mean it's a legitimate claim. This experience of unconditional love is described by some sci-fi authors like Greg Bear, who lets it happen to one of his characters in the novel Darwin's Radio. (the character then gets a fmri brain scan, which is an interesting passage) I also suspect that many other writers also have such experiences, my favorite example are the Strugatski brothers. (they wrote Picnic on a Roadside aka Stalker and many other books) This experience has a deeply transforming effect on personality and I think I can recognize such a person when I get to know one.
Furthermore, religion is not about love. Religion is about an exclusive devotion to one symbol and indifference or even hostility to everything else, specially to serious alternatives. (because scriptures warn you off) This is why we end up with just a bit of devotion and a lot of hostility. Religion is divisive. Love is inclusive. So what you mean is not a religion, although it might inspire all kinds of people.
...yeah, and this exact feeling is felt rather in the middle of chest, not on the middle-left side as for physical heart. (fool's heart is on the left, wise man's heart on the right, you know) But I'd prefer to undergo all sorts of brain scans when the technology becomes available, instead of saying goddidit. I don't care who did it, but how and how can we do it ourselves.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.