Originally posted by dominicus
Isn't the whole NDE thing an intellectual surgery for most atheists?? Specifically since most NDE's speak of a God.
reply to post by mmariebored
I have an anti-liar agenda, to be correct. I don't like to see people controlled by people posing as some higher-power authority, and this is what religions do.
Isn't this what your doing now? Posing as a higher authority by saying that others are posing as higher authority. Its the big paradox some dont see.
What you just said is, anyone with an opinion is posing as a "higher authority". I was saying that people who stand behind a religion are standing on what they claim is the "Word of God", which makes my argument factual, they ARE posing as some higher authority, by claiming that what they are saying came from God himself. In order for me to be doing the same thing, I would have had to say that God told me that what I'm saying is the truth, but in fact I said it was MY OWN opinion. I never said it was God's. As religions claim. That whole statement of yours lacked some serious logic and I debated on even responding to the rest.
Subjective proof is proof also, just for that 1 person. If a bunch of people share the same subjective proof, doesnt it make it objective?
No. No it does not. Because that is like saying that everyone who believed the earth is flat, was right.
What if there really is a religion that does know "it" and really is teaching the true path to experience God and be free to see things that are real, beyond the imagination???
What if we all just talk to each other like each other's opinion is what it is, an opinion.
Wouldnt that suck for all those who were bashing it and by doing so missing the point?
"It would be bad" ONLY if we had an unfair God who created us with a brain but did NOT expect us to use our brain, INSTEAD, made us to deny the brain he gave us and believe only what we're told by people claiming to be speaking for him. That would most definately "suck", as you put it.
I wouldn't even want to go to "Heaven", in that case.
Fortunately, I don't believe this is the case. But this is merely my opinion. I do not, in any way, have delusions of grandeur, superior authority on the matter based on some one time experience. No, this is my public forum opinion as one human being speaking to other human beings who also have opinions.
[edit on 22-11-2008 by mmariebored]





