cont. Behe? Who the f*ck are you talking about? And we aren't looking to beleive anything at all, thats the point of the word, atheist. We aren't in "rebellion against god" or "angry with the lord"; we just don't beleive. Thats it.
"second, Darwin's sad-ass THEORY has been
disproven so many times, you atheists wouldn't even believe in it
yourselves if you weren't grasping for ANYTHING to believe in OTHER then a
God. Screw you idiot people. Honestly."
Ok, first, understand your scientific terminology, dumbass; "theory" reffers to an overriding idea which describes multiple facts. You know gravity? That's a theory too, smartass. And disproven by who? Kent "I got a Ph.D from a degree mill" Honvid? Michael "I got embarrrased in Dover"
LOL swaying back and forth in the name of all those "common sense judges who know that our rights are derived from God"(quote from Dubs)... much like the common sense judges who know that our rights are derived from Thor...
"It's a good thing to instill solid moral principles at an early age."
Hitler youth instilled "solid moral principles". Faith schools in Palistine, Iran and Saudi Arabia instill "solid moral principles".
Problem 1. There have never been any truely Atheistic nations: Hitler, according to HIS OWN F*CKING BOOKS, was a catholic, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. were worshiped in a cult of personality. Sorry kids, but being hostile to organized religion doesn not an atheist make.
Problem 2. You present a false choice; Atheism versus a part of a part of a religion, a religion, and a puppet state of a Catholic. If you are going to compare the deaths caused by atheism to the deaths caused by religion,
"For God to be able to do everything that is claimed he must be
able to multitask to an infinite degree. We are not too small to be seen or
effected by God, he even knows the number of hairs on our head. God has
seen our distress and is merciful."
Really? Have you heard of the problem of Evil... at all?
"What of the next realm? what happens
after you die? That is where the questions go unanswered for those without
faith."
Why? Why not have a SCINETIFIC inquiry into where consciousness lies, so that you DO know what happens? All you are saying is that, because you cannot conceive of a scientific solution to what are now "metaphysical" questions, there is not a scientific solution, and will never be. This is not faith, this is willful ignorence.
"does it take a smaller mind to believe something you can't see....or a
smaller mind to believe only what is sitting in front of you"
No, it takes a gullible mind to beleive what cannot be proven.
"THANK HIM FOR BREAKING THE ROMAN
CUSTOM OF ALLOWING FATHERS TO EXECUTE THEIR CHILDREN UNTIL THEY TURNED
EIGHTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!"
Lol, that's a Jewish standard too, and he supported it, too (Matthew 5:18-19). Phail.
"But when it comes to religion, I am agnostic, as there are
many questions that need to be answered, too many coincedences in the
concept of existence. I am quite skeptical of religion as a whole, but that
does not make me atheist."
In a way, I am an agnostic too, as I cannot "prove" that God doesn't exist... but I don't need to. The burdan of proof lies in the laps of those who make claims to ultimate knowledge, not the other way 'round.
Really, it isn't that complicated; you don't need miracles to say that the Golden Rule is a brilliant summarization of ethical precepts, you don't need holy stories to say that the Sermon on the Mount is a work of good morals, and you don't need God for anything.
"Just like a lot of other issues
in life, its not just black and white."
Is it really? Is it honestly more complicated than "God exists/ god does not exist"? By the Bible's own admission, it is the "word of God" and, also by the Bible's own admission, the word of God is infallible. By these two facts alone, one can either say that the Bible is real, or not; there is no middle ground, one cannot simply abandon certain concepts because they do not fit with a life now, that is theological ignorence.
"I don't care what your stance on religion is or what your religion is. You
should let others mind their own beliefs as well."
Really? Do you let people who say that the holocaust never happened "mind their own beleifs"? You do? Would you let them "mind their own beleifs" if they activly killed for their beleifs? If they passivly killed for their beleifs?
"but even if he did, he would be sickened by what
people have done in his name. Religion is an ugly scar on the face of
humanity." No he wouldn't, as I have just proven. God, even if he did exist, is not even worthy of mankind.
cont'd: "When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do [that which is] right in the eyes of the LORD thy God." This is, by far, the most evil chapter of any book I have ever known of.
cont'd:" And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;"
cont'd: "Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, [if it be] truth, [and] the thing certain, [that] such abomination is wrought among you;Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword."
cont'd: "And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.If thou shalt hear [say] in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,[Certain] men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;"
cont'd:"Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
cont'd: "If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;[Namely], of the gods of the people which [are] round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the [one] end of the earth even unto the [other] end of the earth;"
cont'd: "Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn [you] away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst ofthee
Just so y'all know what it is, here we are: "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul."
"The
Bible actually directly addresses the issue of how God still cares for the
individual despite the vastness of the universe"
And it also adresses... Deuteronomy 13.
"I was offended, being a religous person, a protestant Christian, in fact,
but that's aside the point." We don't care. You offend ancient greeks by saying that their gods don't exist, but no one cares, now do they?
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