Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Originally posted by: PipBoy
Originally posted by: fjorner
As for proof... what good would that do? If God is God, then how could us humans... mere chemical reactions and intricate bioelectric impulses... dream of comprehending proof of God's existence? Would not the proof of physically, substantially knowing of God's existence be so far out of our realm of existence that we could stand no hope of conceiving it? And in the case of such cosmically fantastic proof of God's veracity, wouldn't the proof against God's existence be equally mind-boggling?
Something to think about when you go along in life demanding proof of God in exchange for your sovereignty.
If there were a God I'm sure he would be smart enough to be able to provide evidence of his existence in a way we puny mortals could understand.
What kind of evidence would you like? Should he have made mountains to spell out "I AM GOD"?
edit: it looks like we have quite a few Christians here... Why don't we all start defending ourselves more in anti-religious conversations???
Originally posted by: VisionsUCI
Not all Christians feel the need to engage in arguments on messageboards.. hence, lots of Christians but very few *standing up* for themselves.
I think the real question here is:
Why do YOU visit this messageboard?
a. to defend Christianity
b. to make jokes
c. discuss things intelligently
d. for all the HOT Deals, but sometimes wander around to OT
I'm sure there are more categories that posts fall into, but this is a pretty basic framework.
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Originally posted by: SammySon
The dark lord has nothing on my .
Last time that bitch was out, he was snoozing in the car by 11pm.
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You shall burn in the eternal fires of hell for your impudence!!
Oh, and the Dark Lord prefers :beer: dark !
Originally posted by: nan0bug
Originally posted by: WarmAndSCSI
Originally posted by: MacBaine
No no... this won't do at all...
Christians are mostly redneck liberal hippie conservatives who emit a foul and unpleasant oder.
There, now it's more like an ATOT thread.
dude, no fvcking flame wars! why don't you go STOP BREATHING
You're not a christian with that attitude. You're one of those pick and choose christians, who reads the bible, picks out the parts they really like and conveniently forgets about the other parts.
Originally posted by: WarmAndSCSI
Christianity is winning thus far. I wonder if the results are accurate...
And, look again. Christianity is not 'winning'. Athiest/Agnostic/Other combined is larger, and thats not even counting the other religions you listed.
For the record, I'm one of those agnostic lost my way types. A while back, god decided my life is going to suck. 10 years later, I decided God can do some sucking of His own. Maybe someday we'll meet in the middle, but for now I'm perfectly content saying God hasn't shown himself to me in the way that is written in the bible, and for all intensive purposes does not exist in my opinion until further notice.
That is all.
Originally posted by: WarmAndSCSI
Oh, and along the same lines: I don't believe you'll burn in Hell if you don't believe in Jesus. If you've read my other posts about my opinions on the afterlife, you'd know that I believe you go wherever your mind is set on going in your afterlife when you die... Seems weird, I know, but it's what I believe.
example: If you believe you're going to Heaven, you're gonna go to Heaven
example: If you believe you're going to Hell, you're gonna go to Hell
I used to be a devout Christian. I'm not sure what I am now, but I guess I'm between Christianity and agnosticism -- I don't go to Church or much of anything; I believe in a personal relatonship between God and myself and that's pretty much it. Ever since I met my fiancee, who is from a VERY Catholic family, organized religion really turned me off on how ritualistic it is for my fiancee's family. I just couldn't swallow some things like how saints are supposed to take care of the lesser work of God and all that. Screw that -- God should be able to take care of everything if you believe that. Again, I feel religion is what YOU make of it, not what other people have made of it. It's all about personal discovery for me...Originally posted by: SWScorch
I consider myself agnostic. Used to be atheist, but I realized its ignorant to think that I can be positively certain that go does not exist.
Even if I did decide that god exists, I doubt I would be christian. Organized religion scares me. A lot. Religion is the work of men, not god.
Originally posted by: WarmAndSCSI
dude, no fvcking flame wars! why don't you go STOP BREATHING
Originally posted by: Insane3D
example: If you believe you're going to Hell, you're gonna go to Hell
You mean New Jersey?
Originally posted by: Eli
No, I am not apart of any religion.
However, I do have my own strong belief system.
Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
"What kind of evidence would you like? Should he have made mountains to spell out "I AM GOD"?"
How about creating a really tasty diet soda ?
Originally posted by: Reliant
Originally posted by: Eli
No, I am not apart of any religion.
However, I do have my own strong belief system.
That is exactely how I am.
Originally posted by: MindStorm
edit: it looks like we have quite a few Christians here... Why don't we all start defending ourselves more in anti-religious conversations???
At first, I thought this was a simple survey to see the various beliefs of AT. Then when I read that, I realized the fool was just trying gather an army to help defend his faith, which he doesn't seem to be able to do by himself.
I'm AGNOSTIC - and yes, I know what it means (response to fjorner). My question to him would be does he even know what being a christian is. I'm sure after you break down his long-winded, overly wordy (congrats, you know how to use a thesaurus), it will say a christian is someone who allowed someone else to shove the bible down their throats.