SkepticThinker
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Translation: You can't.
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What's the Deal with Evolution?
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Jose Fly
Fisker of men
That's been the running question among folks on the science side for years. Do folks like Behe, Ham, Hovind, etc. really believe their nonsense, or are they just fleecing the rubes? We likely will never know.
SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
So your belief in God is the only thing keeping you from raping, pillaging and murdering?
Yikes, that's terrifying.
Wildswanderer
Veteran Member
Is that what I said? No.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Not if you know what to look for on them bones.
Not uncommon in religious folk.
With the deontological crutch of axiomatic rules divorced from consequences; doctrine, and and the church's traditional antipathy toward critical analysis, skepticism and individual opinion, the religious have no need to develop an internalized morality.
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Muffled
Jesus in me
I believe that says a lot. God heals completely but physicians prescribe tablets that you have to take until you die.
Muffled
Jesus in me
I believe I enjoy watching the TV series "Bones" and a lot can be told but often the crime is solved by the FBI man finding out what the story actually is behind the story the bones tell.
Muffled
Jesus in me
I believe you wish to limit God to a book but the truth is that He is the living God.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
LOL this is so ironic an accusation, considering that in another thread about Abrahamic faiths being limited to God in a book, I one of the people arguing that the sacred texts are only one way of knowing God. For example, there is prayer.
Justanatheist
Well-Known Member
Fine, but I will put my faith in something that can be shown to exist in the real world not your imagination.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
God is not a book, Muffled, nor have I made that claim. God is much bigger than the Tanakh.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
The thing is, you cannot depend on God to heal. Most of the time he does not, even though people pray for healing. A medication however, works on everyone who takes it.
tas8831
Well-Known Member
No it isn't.
According to.... a dude on the internet who's main sources of information on the subject are creationist websites and books?
I am like SOOO convinced...
No it isn't.[/quote]
tas8831
Well-Known Member
It is a pretty common theme for some folk. Way back in the days of AOL chat rooms, had a 'good Christian man' tell me outright that if it were not for his fear of God, he would be doing those things. Pretty sick.
I like Penn's take on this (paraphrasing) - I DO engage in all of the raping and murder I want to - which is ZERO because I do not actually want to do those things.