I have not been on this forum long but I have been here long enough to realise this,
someone once said "Time is the thing we have least of and waste the most",
so I am wasting no more time here, good luck to you all.
If a scientist has a theory but can only answer 49 out of 50 questions put to him,
his theory is considered to be wrong, even by the scientist,
if a creationist can only answer 1 question in 50 they consider that to be irrefutable proof.
God comes to the rescue, and the creationists win again,
thank God for God, any doubts about anything? just bring on God, God is the answer
to everything, think up some crazy theories and if anyone puts up a decent argument,
bring in God and God will destroy all reasonable arguments.
Are you saying only Christians can love and nourish someone? and what has Jesus Christ got to do with it? I don't believe in Jesus Christ or God so does it follow that I am incapable of giving love and help to people? whole communities go for years without mentioning God but they are still good...
It could also be argued that the absence of proof is proof that religion was created by man as a form of domination, what better way could you find to keep people in their place, not to fear you, but to fear what will happen to them when they die if they break the rules, and if those rules...
I was also smacked as a child but it never occured to me to 'get back' at them,
they smacked me when I had done wrong, they never once smacked me for nothing.
Forget the bible, even monkeys smack their offsprings to teach them right from wrong,
try watching your child running into the road after you have shouted stop five times,
you have to be cruel to be kind, to use words like physical abuse is ridiculous, if you love
your child you owe it to them...
I would agree the words have meaning in the fact that we all know what they are conveying,
but do they really mean anything, we could talk all night about aliens from space but would we just be going around in circles? not really talking about anything but, perhaps and maybe or could be, nothing...
Which only proves my point,
had the job been done properly in the first place they would not have converted, they would not have been given a choice, therfore someone or the system messed up.
When I used the words "messed up" I was thinking about Muslims, they are the masters of religion, if you are brought up a true Muslim you have a snowball in hells chance of deciding for yourself not to be a Muslim.
Not true about all Atheists but I think we were brought up mostly without any...
As someone else pointed out, you are trying to use Logic when talking about religion, when it comes to religion there is no Logic.
Logic just gets in the way of belief.
This is what I was trying to get at, everyone thinks they have the true religion, even had they been born on Mars they like to think they would have been able to seek out and find the religion they have now, deny everything they were taught to believe as children and convert to their true...
Have you ever asked yourself why you believe in a God?
by that I mean, do you believe because you were brought up to believe?
did you come to believe after a long search for a meaning to life?
have you always believed? do you believe because someone else believes?
I don't suppose for one...