The all new, totally accepted, bigotry thread - "Blame a Christian"

[Traitorfish]

Including you?

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Including you?

But of course. I've long believed in the patheticness of my own posts in a religious topic.

 

[Borachio]

But of course. I've long believed in the patheticness of my own posts in a religious topic.

NIce one.

 

[Borachio]

Behold trees. Standing upright with arms stretched heavenward in praise and worship to the Almighty. So would we all stand if God revealed Himself directly, as we would have no power to resist Him.

But God grants us free will to choose. To make a choice involves consideration. I pray you will consider God and I trust Him to save you if you do.

Rembering this, that for all things there is a season, and as the winter comes withering the leaves and leaving a tree's limbs as bare ruined choir lofts, so also comes the day when men shall no longer have the hope of eternal joy facing instead the fate of a fallen tree rotting in cold dead isolation.

Or fueling the fires of a reaper's furnace.

I like this post, very much.(almost poetic) But aren't all the posters to this thread in fact considering God?

 

[Borachio]

There are thousands of religions around the globe - there is no point in arguing which one is right unless you have some solid evidence.. which none of the religions so far have been able to produce

A Jehovahs Witness* - and they do seem to do their research - told me the other day that there are over 40000 varieties of Christianity, alone. It seems to be a feature of religions that no sooner do they begin but - lo and behold: schismatics!

*I'll talk to anyone, but a lot of my conversations are to people's backs as they quickly disappear down the road.

 

[peter grimes]

Rembering this, that for all things there is a season, and as the winter comes withering the leaves and leaving a tree's limbs as bare ruined choir lofts, so also comes the day when men shall no longer have the hope of eternal joy facing instead the fate of a fallen tree rotting in cold dead isolation.

False.

Much of the plant life in the tropics does not experience seasonal growth variation, which is one of the reasons tropical hardwoods have particular engineering characteristics that separate them from their northern & southern hemisphere cousins.

Some might read this as poetry, but poetry doesn't get you very far when shoe-horned into the role of an instruction manual for living in the reality-based world

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

i'm confused now. What do you want a Dawkins quote dis-ing the Christians?

Well, I haven't read Dawkin's books but I've seen lots of interviews, talks and debates of/with the man. Nothing struck me offensive enough to deserve the ire he gets. In debates he is particularly polite towards the individual, but harsh against their ideas. As should be. He often criticizes religion, and he does get on his horse whenever he gets on the topic of creationism.

But considering the Bible itself goes personal and calls atheists fools, I don't see the high ground here.

edit: By the way, not sure you're familiar with it, but you can use the

button and combine all the posts you reply to in one post.

 

[GhostWriter16]

But considering the Bible itself goes personal and calls atheists fools, I don't see the high ground here.

Well, except that the Bible is right

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

I lost a lot of respect for Dawkins and several others when they involved themselves in the New College of the Humanities project. Something like that tends to throw one's integrity into question along with their whole philosophy.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

Well, except that the Bible is right

Please. I consider myself a Christian, but you can't logically argue "X is correct because X says so".

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

That seems to be what a lot of apologists are doing these days: "I assert that it is correct, therefore it is correct."

 

[Borachio]

@Whiskey #129 Oh yes? What have you got angainst New College of the Humanities? I've not heard of it before.

 

[Core Imposter]

There is nothing logical about faith. Faith lies beyond.

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

There is nothing logical about faith. Faith lies beyond.

So stop asserting that things are true on faith and expecting others to just accept your illogical arguments.

 

[Borachio]

but poetry doesn't get you very far when shoe-horned into the role of an instruction manual for living in the reality-based world

I think it is certainly true that poetry fails as an instruction manual and indeed my appreciation of poetry in general is decidedly ********. But one of the things that religions have been good at historically - correct me if I'm wrong - is encouraging people to continue in very adverse conditions.

Nothing struck me offensive enough to deserve the ire he gets. In debates he is particularly polite towards the individual, but harsh against their ideas. As should be. He often criticizes religion, and he does get on his horse whenever he gets on the topic of creationism.

I agree. A religion that cannot accept criticism is scarcely a religion.

That seems to be what a lot of apologists are doing these days: "I assert that it is correct, therefore it is correct."

We all do this, don't we? At least, I assert we do.

 

[Core Imposter]

So stop asserting that things are true on faith and expecting others to just accept your illogical arguments.

It is my job to assert my faith in Christ's death as payment for the sins of humankind.

It is my expectation that some of you will go to heaven and my fear that too many of you will go to hell.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

You know, I would like to be a Professor when I'm older, but that's not going to be easy unless I give up my faith.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

Christianity burned our crops, poisoned the water supply, and unleashed a plague unto our houses!

 

[JollyRoger]

You know, I would like to be a Professor when I'm older, but that's not going to be easy unless I give up my faith.

The roadblocks may not end up faith-related.

 

[Borachio]

There is nothing logical about faith. Faith lies beyond.

I did a course in logic. There's nothing logical about logic.

It is my job to assert my faith in Christ's death as payment for the sins of humankind.

It is my expectation that some of you will go to heaven and my fear that too many of you will go to hell.

Well, shame on you! Please, please, please consult your texts properly. Pray a bit harder will you? If you think that will help. But I doubt it. (This has made me a bit angry - I don't like it.)

Christianity burned our crops, poisoned the water supply, and unleashed a plague unto our houses!

Did it? Or was it "Christians"?

You know, I would like to be a Professor when I'm older, but that's not going to be easy unless I give up my faith.

I don't see why. Unless you hold some views according to your faith which would be contradictory with common sense. In which case I should revise my faith, if I were you. Which I'm not. Go on. Tell me to mind my own business.