People or Religion, who corrupts who?

[DaRev]

dsgrue3 said:

DaRev said:

I knew you were going claim that I was one sided as well. OK, so let’s try not to be “one-sided”. Here goes, logically I can admit and understand why people have difficulty believing in religion, for a number of reasons, but one reason in particular is the fact that people today believe mostly in what they can see or prove. I assume then that man non-religious people can’t prove there is a God/deity or see him so they don’t believe, which is understandable.

OK, now lets see you try to understand religious people, and not be one-sided.

Of course you can, because it is logical to take the stance of a skeptic. We do it in every facet of life.

If I tell you I can lift an elephant, you remain uncertain until you see me actually do it. That isn't to say I cannot do it, but you certainly don't just concede that I can based upon "faith."

I can understand belief in God, but I cannot understand a belief in a particular doctrine governing this being. It makes sense that there could exist some force/being that manifested everything. It does not make sense that this being has any attributes such as omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and certainly it is absurd to think it responds to prayers from a particular species of primate on one planet out of the billions which exist.

However, if the resurrection of Jesus Christ were documented at the time (not 30+ years removed) I would at least entertain the idea. OR if other historical documents confirmed this event (resurrection, not crucifixion), I could place some salt in that.

But right now, it's simply circular reasoning. i.e. The resurrection occurred because the Bible said so and the Bible is true because Jesus was God. Get it?

I might be mistaken, but that was a piss poor attempt at not being one-sided. So I can only conclude that you really are one-sided. In any event, let me ask you this, was your ancient gandmother an monkey and do you suppose that she had flees?