highwaystar101 said:
Ack I've been drawn into a theological debate now. This was not my intention. I originally wanted to stand up for atheists against being seen as boring grey emotionless machines. |
You know from what I read the Atheist population of the United States... essentially those who don't hold any specific deity as their judgments compass is around 13%. That number out strips the amount of Jews, Hindu's, Animists, Bhudists and Muslims combined in the United States. That the number of Atheist in the US is second to the number of Christians in the US is an interesting statistic... I think it needs some clarity though.
To be a Atheist all a person has to do is be a non-believer.
To be a Christian all a person has to do is believe in the words of the Bible.
The problem with the Christian argument as far as "grey emotionless machines" go is to cede that they themselves are without emotion of even character without believing in a god of some sort.
The second problem is that most Christians do believe in a god but not the bible, or confuse a cultural holding as a theological holding. To make is short; Christians can and have personalized god to where the only thing if asked to explain god that you would get is that he/she is all knowing, all loving and ever present. The thing is that they can believe these things because of faith.
My point though is that when approaching any religious debate I've found the best tactic be is to go at faith and expose exactly what it constitutes, the only thing the religious hold on to more than faith is pride after all Christianity is founded of vindication and the last thing a Christian wants to hear is how faith is irrational.
All other arguments are just details to be overlooked by those using faith.
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Either way glad to see that the creationist argument is over, I haven't seen it brought up in a while.
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