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originally posted by: randyvs
I didn't know you had to prove your statements in a court of law.
Is that an atheist court of law?
On TV everyone just wears on what the courts consider a Holy book of truth.
Your question is stupid but at least I answer yours.
No, people who are not religious are not required to swear on a holy book because they don't believe in it.
originally posted by: randyvs
So they can just get up there and lie there ass off.
I guess there are advantages to being an atheist.
originally posted by: randyvs
The same one I asked cosmetic cat. Pay attention.
Explain how the first man became a living being and don't just say abiogenesis like Christianity says Genesis or God. Explain how we got here and why were here? Where we came from and where we're going?
originally posted by: WarriorMH
I have some questions
1. How old are you?
2. When you were a kid, did you grow up on a religious family?
3. Did you at some point believe in something, when growing up?
4. Did you at some point stop believing because something made you change your mind?
5. If you don't mind, what was that?
Or maybe you never believed right from the beginning?
I feel like all this trillion pages of arguing over this are pointless, no one will ever win this and a better effort would be to discuss ways to prove/disprove or bring up a theory on how it could all work, just so that if it reaches a dead end it can be considered progress and mutual work in trying to figure out if it exists or not
I find this entire discussion sad and tiring. Keep throwing sticks and rocks at each other, human kind has been doing it for thousands of years, why change now right?
like you said "a little very very sensitive girl" and that makes you right and me wrong somehow, so whatever. I'm 17 and don't treat me like i'm dumb
Then don't have a hissy fit when your faith is questioned. Either back up your statements with something OTHER than scripture or don't engage.
If believing in a God works for you, and makes your life better - awesome! Brilliant. I mean that genuinely.
But don't expect me to believe your position and don't expect me to 'respect' your belief and in not doing so, is some form of 'oppression' or bigotry.
can say this for me, i never knew anything about religion until like about 3 years ago, i mostly just grew up without ever thinking about it or knowing any details so i don't have a real opinion on why people believe or what they feel.
As i explained before i didn't get a good experience when i tried to learn what it was all about and i don't have a concept of following anything at all, i just exist and focus on the things i like the most, i don't feel tied to any way of thinking or any religion or anything at all like people who feel the have to support democracy or socialism or whatever, i don't get why you have to chose sides
You could always present this evidence you keep saying exists, and then i’d have to believe you.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Woodcarver
Wood, I don't give the first rats ass what
you don't believe. You can't live on this
planet without believing something about
your existence. Grow some and tell
everyone what that is?
Or do I have to try another word arrangement?
originally posted by: noonebutme
Ok, so, as far as we know (because science doesn't claim to know what it doesn't, unlike religion) the basic building blocks of life derived from the elements that were on or around the Earth however many billions of years ago.. 3.5, 4, etc.
These elements combined and arrived at very basic organic compounds. Now there's debate as to whether this happened on Earth or came from space from comets
These organic components interacted with the environment and over time, formed the first single celled organism. And who knows? Maybe it died out, but then it happened again.
IN any case, over millions and millions of years, single celled gave way to multi-celled, from invertebrates to vertibrates, etc etc. I don't really need to explain evolution to you, right? Surely the Apple Valley had basic high school education?
originally posted by: noonebutme
Unlike religion, which just says it was divine and that's it. It offers no genuine answers to how it all began. Apart from mythology. At least science is open enough to say it doesn't know but it trying.
You could always present this evidence you keep saying exists, and then i’d have to believe you.
Oh Randy, shouldn’t you be outside shooing kids off of your lawn? Or helping jesus hide dinosaur bones?
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Woodcarver
Oh look, more avoidance.
Look I refuse to keep hounding you okay.
No big deal carry on with whatever you
this.
Good day Wood
originally posted by: Woodcarver
Oh Randy, shouldn’t you be outside shooing kids off of your lawn? Or helping jesus hide dinosaur bones?
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: Woodcarver
Oh look, more avoidance.
Look I refuse to keep hounding you okay.
No big deal carry on with whatever you
this.
Good day Wood