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Forums - General - "Why I'm Agnostic" (Good read for believers and non-believers)

That's a pretty great find - I love how poetically he writes his points, reminds of religious texts

And I agree with it, makes too much sense



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d21lewis said:
It really makes you think, doesn't it?

I loled



Jay520 said:
Zlejedi said:
And we care about this exactly why ? That's the most funny thing about those left wing/atheist so called "intellingence" that they belive that we should share their beliefs or that anyone cares what they do with their private lives.

 Well, some people care. They enjoy discussing their beliefs with other people & are interested in what people think. This thread is for them. 

this



sapphi_snake said:
DélioPT said:
God doesn`t hate anyone. It´s really the other way around. He absolutely loves us even before we were even born/made, that`s why His mercy has no boundaries and that`s why He offered Himself through Jesus to suffer for us so we could once again be in His presence.

If Adam and Eve started our decay it was Jesus divinity and purity who sanctified us once again so we could go to heaven. You don`t erase impurity with impurity, you erase it with purity: That`s why Jesus died and ressurrected.

Yes it is true that we are imperfect, but we are also the ones who chose the path to walk on. And that goes for everything in your life.
"A perfect and all knowing God should have made it so that even the proverbial "village idiot" should be able to find Him--and that is clearly not the case"
Everyone can find Him. You don`t guess Him but that`s not the case here, so to those who know everything you know, ask yourself why they believe and you don`t.
"who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself" - God only asks for you to be responsible for what you do with your freedom and will, for the good and for the bad.

Except all the people he hates.

This thread is supposed to be serious but I'm loling everywhere I look



@Jumpin:

* Why your argument is falacious - you accuse Christianity of being immoral because it fueled the Crusades which occurred between 720 and 915 years ago:
-The ideal of atheism was one of the chief fuels for the Communist revolutionary wars throughout much of the Eurasian continent during the 20th century.

Ummm, do you even know anything about Communism. Or atheism for that matter? There is no 'atheism ideal'. You should read about MArx's views, and why he was against religion.


-The ideal of Patriotism and National spirit fueled World War I, II, and the Prussian wars in my own country - also a spirit strong in the United States today.

I actually consider both patriotism and nationalism to be negative things, so I'm not really being inconsistent regarding this.

-The ideal of Capitalism fueled the Congolese massacre in the 19th and 20th century where workers had their loved ones (wives and children) held captive, and if the men of the family didn't gather enough rubber, their women and children would have their hands cut off. The massacres involved 10.5 million deaths all so Belgians could become wealthy. It also fueled the Boer War which saw genocide against the Boers and Afrikans as they were pushed into concentration camps; all so the English could gain access to gold. Cecil Rhodes, the main instigator of war in Africa for gold and diamonds, is celebrated today with the Rhodes Scholarship, and the Deburs diamond company is still huge.

Unregulated Capitalism is immoral. I do not disagree with that ideea.


-The ideal of Freedom fueled the French Revolutionary war, the following Reign of Terror, the military campaigns of Napoleon; the American war of independence and the torturing of United Empire loyalists (tarring and feathering); all of this in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

This is just stupid people going overkill.

* You accuse all Christians as being fundamentalist by saying that they don't disapprove of warfare against people of differing ideologies. This is unequivocally a bigoted accusation.

I said that I never met a christian who disagreed with the Crusades.

The core beliefs of Christianity are peace and love;

Could've fooled me.

and those which do support violence and fundamentalism are not people who are really following the religion as it is written, they're just fans - and I think those types of people are only very frequent in native English speaking countries (maybe Spanish too, I don't know), particularly the United States.

I'd say it applies to christians from all over the world.

Although, in short: saying that religion is immoral because religion causes immorality is circular logic, and there for a logical fallacy.

So, saying that fire is hot because if you touch it you get burned is circular logic? Seems more like a cause and effect thing to me.

* Lastly, the reason why I say you haven't come up with any argument against my point is because you haven't shown how atheism can determine an objective morality.

It's not atheism's job to determine morality.

Without objective morality, there is no reason why any atrocities, such as Hitler's, can be said to be wrong;

You can find other pillars of morality, other than religion.

when a male Lion commits infanticide, how is that naturally wrong?

Seriously? You're bringing wild animals into this discussion?

Had the Christian morality prevailed as the dominant morality, it is unlikely that people would have been so willing to accept the glory of war;

LOL, seriously? I guess you're ignoring history on this one.

 



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