"Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people."
Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
Tommy Davis: Asking About Scientology Beliefs is an "Offensive Concept"
Thursday April 9, 2009
It probably goes without saying that few religious believers are truly embarrassed by the doctrines of their religion. This doesn't mean that there isn't anything in their religion that they should be...
"Writing science fiction for about a penny a word is no way to make a living, If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion." - L. Ron Hubbard .Yup that is clever.
If its "Philosophically, it's impossible for the universe, which is a collection of contingent beings, to come from nothing" Then using that "logic" its also Philosophically, impossible for a god, to have always existed or to come from nothing.
This one is quite interesting as well
When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girga****es, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are all more powerful...
This one is quite good as well
Ex 35:2
2 For six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
Here's another one I like
Ex 21:20-21
20 When a slave-owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. 21But if the slave survives for a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property.
I really like this one
1Tim 2:11-12
11Let a woman* learn in silence with full submission. 12I permit no woman* to teach or to have authority over a man;* she is to keep silent
here,A prayer for health - The Boston Globe
and here,Prayer Does Not Help Heart Bypass Patients | LiveScience
The belief in prayer is a superstition. It has been proven scientifically over and over again. When a prayer appears to be answered, it is a coincidence. Quite simply, prayer has...
The fact is, God never answers any prayers. The entire idea that "God answers prayers" is an illusion created by human imagination.
How do we know that "answered prayers" are illusions? We simply perform scientific experiments. We ask a group of believers to pray for something and then we watch...
Gods laws (any god,any law) change when human knowledge expands.For instance the law on killing people who work on the sabbath gets "adjusted" to suit modern day life.The religious are in a continous battle with science and humanism and continually have to readjust what the bible "really means"...