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Again that is your view. IMO, Buddha is the most important man in the history of the world.The most influential man in the history of the world and you say "if he ever existed".
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Again that is your view. IMO, Buddha is the most important man in the history of the world.The most influential man in the history of the world and you say "if he ever existed".
you're not paying attentionI know all about old books. We have one which may be older than 10,000 years.
You have no evidence for what you claim.
By what you are saying, your God created wickedness. He should be the first to be punished.
Jesus made no difference to that. They remain just as wicked as before.
Again that is your view. IMO, Buddha is the most important man in the history of the world.
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This world, this oblate spheroid which doth hang in space upon which we stand. You know, planet Earth, the one infested with neotenous apes that believe in Gods. Contained within a galaxy of over 200 billion stars, itself part of a grand cosmos one of over two plus trillion galaxies, so much greater than your obnoxious primitive deity and thy parochial little holy book. Do you not see what a joke your faith is to me?..I'm sorry, which world and universe are you actually referring to?
Buddha may not have been the most influential person in the world (I wish he was, he was closest to truth). Yes, Jesus and Muhammad have been more influential, but think of all the strife they brought to the world over centuries and continue to do so. That is why I said Buddha was the most important person in the world.I didn't say most important (even though I could have.) I said most influential.
Universe has existed for 13.78 billion years. Humans have been around for just 200,000 years.Without love the universe cannot exist
Love is emotional attachment displayed by higher animals.Without love the universe cannot exist![]()
I feel no guilt over things I have played no part in, no. Always fascinated how Christians just love feeling guilty and filthy and covered in sin. Horrible way to live, in my view.
I am not trying to be terribly rude here, but consider your statement from the point of view of the atheist (or perhaps the Jew, the Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, etc..)...Christians are inspired by the reverence that they have for their Maker: His wisdom, holiness, justice, mercy and wrath.
Yet you offer no rebuttal - just dismissal with the wave of a hand.Believing that the only evidence that either a Christian or a theist has, is from a book of antiquity, is the epitome of blindness and ignorance.
None for you, but that one is way down on my list of possibilities. All naturalistic explanations are more parsimonious that those invoking supernaturalism.God created the heavens and the earth - there are no other options to explain the miracle of the universe.
I find your religion "wicked." Look at the ugly things you post because of it:Man is wicked; God is holy and merciful - Christ is Lord.
Your intolerant religion would have governments harm such people. Go ahead and hire a gay prostitute and smoke pot if you like. There is no harm there. The harm is the religion that teaches you that such things should lead to punishment to appease an imagined, bigoted god. More fruit from the rotten tree.Your civil laws permit pornography, pot smoking, homosexuality, prostitution (in some states), guns (in some states).
What an absolutely vile and -- let me say it without regret -- unChristian thing to say. I want to say so much more, but my anger makes me aware that I would have to say things the forum does not allow.Homosexuality is a vile and perverse lifestyle, and all those who practice it, and equally those who either condone or endorse it, have nothing more than a depraved and corrupt mentality.
The only ideology, in recent centuries, other than homosexuality, that has had such a subversive and destructive affect on society and its populace, is now the gender dysphoria movement.
My flag is either black and white or pink and blue, one stripe each. Anything other than that is an abomination by any sane person's standards, ...but then, look who I'm talking to.
What an absolutely vile and -- let me say it without regret -- unChristian thing to say. I want to say so much more, but my anger makes me aware that I would have to say things the forum does not allow.
And let me also point out that you have made a bald, flat statement about a very large group of human beings, probably, all added up, about a billion of them -- and those who "condone or endorse" (their families and friends) numbering billions more. You did not say "in my opinion." You said, in as factual a style as you were able, that those billion people are "vile, perverse, depraved and corrupt."
What I think about you, I will keep to myself. Your statements, however, are vile and totally unChristian.
(You might consider what Pope Francis himself said, "who am I to judge?")
Thank you. You might have noted that I did not report the post in question. I would prefer that staff do not delete and censure the poster, for the very reasons that you give. I want people to see and understand what it is they do when they behave in that fashion.First and foremost, I'd like to express my sorrow that you witnessed such hatred and religious intolerance on RF. It should be called out for what it is. I'd like to say that you've expressed my sentiments exactly. Well said, and I commend you for calling it out. Ironically, Christians are commanded in the Bible to be ambassadors for Christ and to love their neighbor and their enemies, yet the majority of them tarnish their personal character and Christian witness by how they behave and treat others. They don't seem to care that they severely damage the public's perception of Christians and Christianity in general. It seems obvious to me that they don't care about the biblical commandments to love their neighbor, love their enemies, turn the other cheek, go the extra mile, and treat others the way they want to be treated. They certainly don't inspire me to become a Christian again. I doubt that they inspire you either.
Thank you. You might have noted that I did not report the post in question. I would prefer that staff do not delete and censure the poster, for the very reasons that you give. I want people to see and understand what it is they do when they behave in that fashion.
Hatred hurts all of us, and with nothing to be gained by it. What a waste.
Your bias means nothing. Your so called moral capacity is an abstract concept, as subjective as your point of view. You can deem what you like, I do not care what you think. Your opinions are just whiny and bitter. Your recent replies have been most petulant.Listen to me ape-man, when a creature lives by such barbaric standards: dog-eat-dog and kill-or-be-killed, just to survive, without any other option to sustain their existence, and have absolutely no remorse or conscience related concerns, then we deem these creatures as being devoid of any moral capacity, or any spiritual cognizance and attainment, intrinsically so.
Who cares what you assert? Do you have proof?But, there are exceptions apparently - judging by your comprehension, your ancestors are probably primates, but I will assert categorically: not mine.
Maybe it's time to redefine the word Christian. Christianity has declared itself a moral pinnacle such that people call moral behavior the Christian way to act, and immoral behavior un-Christian, but if the humanists consistently outperform the Christians you encounter morally, perhaps they should be told that their morality isn't very humanist.You behave more like a Christian than the majority of Christians that I know in person or have encountered online. I'd like to say that I respect you for it.
Eh, true, Hammer, to a degree we are nuisances. We did steal fire, and why was that bad? Unadapted Industry, of which we are currently, as the years go on, leaving. We also regulate the atmosphere with the rest of life, breathing in poisonous to anaerobic bacteria oxygen, whom generate by eating poop (yes, poop!) their poop of which is food for plants. Nothing is much more caring, it forms planets by sheer necessity, as if Nothing itself was the mouth for the omnipresent breath of gravity. This forms, as a sort of great butterfly effect OF the sky and not only keeps us going but forms us and is, not only the first in the great causal chain, but the great chain of everything. We are very important, and God (nothing) and the rest of the Gods, like the Sun and Earth, are much more caring in practice than other theory would have you beleieve.Well the Gods certainly didn't need us around. We're more of a nuisance to them really.
We stole fire and screwed ourselves in their eyes![]()
Give the Sun 500 million years or so and you will see how caring it can get, as it begins to exhaust all the helium it started with, and starts to increase in volume and luminosity as it begins to fuse other elements releasing more and more light and heat, overwhelming gravitational contraction. Eventually all the oceans on Earth will evaporate away and all life will be removed from the surface. Of course by then, humans wont likely exist, having either evolved into something else or just gone extinct, leaving no descendants.We are very important, and God (nothing) and the rest of the Gods, like the Sun and Earth, are much more caring in practice than other theory would have you beleieve.
AH, you fool! An easy trap. No we and our environment will have escaped to star systems far from our origin by then.Give the Sun 500 million years or so and you will see how caring it can get,
an easy trap again. We will never die if we reach space.as it begins to exhaust all the helium it started with, and starts to increase in volume and luminosity as it begins to fuse other elements releasing more and more light and heat, overwhelming gravitational contraction. Eventually all the oceans on Earth will evaporate away and all life will be removed from the surface. Of course by then, humans wont likely exist
, having either evolved into something else or just gone extinct, leaving no descendants.
Humans will never leave. Mwahahaaa.AH, you fool! An easy trap. No we and our environment will have escaped to star systems far from our origin by then.
Yeah I know.We will never die if we reach space.