SantaniasGirl
The Catfish Blues
SantaniasGirl
You, sir, have made me lose faith in society, also. Do you not realize that his whole argument INSULTED both you, me, and agnostics? Are you so blind and prideful as to not admit that someone who has faith in a god is right?
Firstly atheists are mostly agnostic, next no-, he gave a well reasoned argument against religion, and its largely negative impact on society and people, and how we would be better off leaving the bronze age behind, and going forward in a world based on reason and hope, rather than myths that simply create fear, and depict genocidal megalomaniac god, who simply wants people to stroke his metaphorical god-peen.
And I will admit someone who has faith in Yahweh is right about mundane matters, but no, I do not believe god exists. So I am not so blind, nor prideful as the one who feels he or she has all the answers to the universe already, and they can be found in a bronze age book, edited by a roman church for £15.00 in any bookshop.
He gave a well-reasoned argument?! Hah! I could make a better argument than him, and I'm not even an Atheist. Also, look up the definition of agnostic in the dictionary, and you'll find that it's separate from atheism.
A-gnosis, without knowledge, gnosis knowledge. Whereas theism and atheism relate to a belief and lack of it. An agnostic atheist lacks a belief in a god, but admits he doesn't know for sure. Even Dawkins is only, 99.75% sure.
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Just because you believe in God, it doesn't make you blind, you know
It makes you more closed minded. .
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An Atheist can be blinded by science just as much as a Christian can by Christianity.
Nope, science is a method for finding things out, Evolution, photons and the big bang, aren't science, they are theories which have a mass of evidence provided by the scientific method to be shown to be consistent with empirical reality. If you gave me an empirical scientific test that could show that god existed and we could repeat that in seven labs around the world consistently, and it was printed in reputable journals, undergoing statistical analysis and peer review, then maybe I would accept god existing, a 2000 year old tome and some bronze age myths, are not proof.
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Science doesn't provide the answer to everything.
No, its a method that allows us to discover things that are true and retest them so we could be sure. It is not too arrogant as to say it has all the answers.
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Most of what it proposes happened to create us and the universe are theories that can be disproved any day.
I love the fact the theories it provides are falsifiable, I mean if science showed that the universe was actually 24 billion years old I would accept it. As would most others, science holds nothing sacred, thats the beauty of it. Wheras religion just kills people for it and has to apologise hundreds of years later.
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and I, even being a Christian, don't follow the Bible, myself, because it has been edited throughout the years and is probably false on a few things, therefore I am not blinded in your eyes.
No you still are because you believe in a bronze age sky daddy which has no evidence in reality and attack science because it challenges your beliefs. Guess what I do when science challenges my beliefs? I evaluate them and change them.
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Christianity also never claimed to have all the answers. I can't open up the Bible and pull out a story saying "Oh, this is how God was created!" or whatever. It doesn't work like that...
Um yes it does, its a complete religion. I am the way
the truth and the life. And Christianity claims Yahweh was not created, thats their god is the first cause argument.
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Also, Christianity teaches you to not be prideful, for it is a sin. *shakes head*
Why is Yahweh such a prideful monster then?
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You obviously have no idea what you're talking about just like the guy who started this whole argument.
Um I've read the bible, I've read apologist sites, I've been christian, I've been buddhist too for about 6 years, I've studied into concepts such as the traces of henotheism in the bible. So excuse me, but I know what I am talking about.