bimmylee said:
Here, I would strongly disagree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it takes an even greater leap of faith to disbelieve than to believe. How? One example: Fine-tuning of the universe... The most fundamental characteristics and constants of our cosmos are perfectly calibrated to support organic life. This is sometimes called the Anthropic Principle (the universe seems designed to produce humanity). The odds against those fundamental regularities and constants happening by sheer chance are smaller than one-in-a-trillion. But atheists are right in pointing out that this fine-tuning argument does not prove that a Creator exists. For example, maybe at the Big Bang an almost infinite number of parallel universes were created at once and we are in the universe that happens to have everything right... However, consider the illustration of a poker game in which the dealer deals himself twenty straight hands of four aces. The other players are about to pummel the dealer for cheating when the dealer says, "wait, you can't prove I'm cheating; there are a trillion parallel universes and we just happen to be in the one where the chances of dealing twenty straight hands of four aces has been realized." He is strictly right; it is possible that there are trillions of universes and this is the one universe in which all those aces are dealt. But it's a lot more plausible to believe that he is cheating, so the dealer still gets beaten up. No one lives their life the way the dealer suggests. In the same way, the existence of all those fine-tuned constants is strong evidence that God exists. |
You do realize that if you take it at a grand sacle of things, any single event has 0 probability of happening, right? However let's play it your way. Do you know what the chances of Christ being born was? Do you realize that the fact that Jesus being born and doing all he did in the exact way he did has a chance of 0? Do you know that Muhammad going into a cave and seeing the Archangel Gabriel also has a probability of 0? I am not saying that a supernatural being didn't fart one day and accidentally created our universe, or tinkered around with it to make it to its liking, what I am saying is that the supernatural being, Jesus, you believe in is bullshit, impossible, imporbable, and just stupid to believe in.
It's not about faith, but about plausability, and I find that story far more plausible than what happened in the Bible. Faith has nothing to do with it.
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For your benefit I will compare drugs and religions. Both have mind altering effects. In most cases both are extremely addictive, both can make a person feel a feeling of elation. Both have cause great turmoil in society, both can pass from parents to children easily. Both are used as an escape from reality, both are used as something to comfort someone when one is weak. The only difference is, that drugs are a physical body which can be consumed, meanwhile religion is an idea. Otherwise religions and drugs share far too many commonalities for religions to be considered anything other than a plight.
Religions had their uses back in the tribal days when rulers needed tools to control their people so a tribe couls survive and reproduce. That's why all tribes which believed in the supernatural survived, they could easily be controlled. However these tools are obsolete and antiquties in the modern world. Something not needed, something extremely primitive.
If you read the story I linked, I'd love to hear why that is less plausible than your Jesus Christ.
