dsgrue3 said:
Slimebeast said:
dsgrue3 said:
Slimebeast said:
Not just thumping the bible, but partly.
The second sentence is what you describe as bible thumping, yes, and it's actually the core of Christianity, to claim that Christ is God. Yes, it could be described as bible thumping, but there's nothing wrong with that, it works that way. The Good News spread that way.
My first sentence though, has to do with what I think is the interesting part. Our search for truth. I am making a point about it, because I'm not primarily interested in comparing ideologies and beliefs and try to determine which is "better" for mankind by some contemporary, humanistic standards. I am interested in truth. And a Karmic worldview just doesn't make any sense.
The belief in karmic justice, that if somebody does wrong to you, "you let the world sort it out" is idiocy to me, because it's not just childish, but unlikely and unlogical, and so therefore it just can't be true, and that's why in my opinion it ultimately doesn't matter much, if any, if the belief in karmic justice by some measure causes people to behave in a "good" or "better" way than any other worldview.
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This post was hilarious to me for how inept it was.
Karma and Christianity are similar in that they both share the idea that things will be sorted through some authority, be it "the world" or "god". It is some pervasive force that doles out judgement. Both are absurd, for the same reason.
Guess when you're blinded by one side, you can't see the overlapping stupidity. By the way, the word is "illogical".
OT: Karma, no brainer. No one has ever been compelled to murder or terrorize as a result of it.
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There's similarity from your atheist perspective, but the concepts are philosophically different. In Christianity the authority who enforces the justice is a person (God). It's a concept not just grounded in childish hope, but grounded in logic. In Bhuddism the authority for karmic justice is a cosmic nameless force and that's illogical.
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This is why no rational person can take your type seriously. There is nothing logical about a faith position; it is devoid of logical arguments and all forms of evidence.
God is a person? So "he" is comprised of matter and resides in a dimension with space? I think most of your bretheren would disagree with the description. I'll just sit here in total bewilderment as to how this is "grounded in logic". Heh.
I'd love to hear what similarities exist between the rejection of a position and the position itself, because logically that is a ridiculous statement on your behalf. Maybe you should stop pretending to know anything about logic and simply admit you know very little about anything.
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I don't know if you are ignorant or just malicious on purpose.
"There is nothing logical about a faith position; it is devoid of logical arguments and all forms of evidence." That's a very ignorant sentence. It's like you know nothing about philosophy at all. Look up the definition of faith, and how it is used in philosophy and religion. And when you say "faith position" you are opening up for something that is even broader, something more in line with worldview. You have a "faith position" too, it's part of human existance, of human perception of reality.
Of course God is a person. Any Christian agrees with that. Go read the basic ABC of Christianity if that description sounds alien to you. I don't know your exact definition of "person", but you should rethink that too in this case.
Can you really not see the logical difference between the Christian agent for justice (God) and the Bhuddhist agent for justice (a nameless karmic force)? That there is a principal difference.
