Religion

If we do indeed "get another chance" as you put it, I'm pretty sure how much money we give to the church or how many times we pray to a higher power has nothing to do with "getting another chance." Treat the earth, animals and fellow man with respect and I'm pretty sure you will be fine.

 

Because you're saying you prefer people you're friends with, and share a major common interest with, over people who you certainly would dislike anyway due to your bias. But you call it logical.

And anyway, you still haven't bothered noting how the golden rule doesn't apply to your own religious thoughts and beliefs, or rather how you don't apply it.

 

I apply it in my everyday life. I do not apply it here because I see my primary objective to be a source of annoyance and a voice of discord. In real life I would not ridicule anyone for their beliefs, but I would be lying. Here I can say what I truly believe.

 

Blind faith? That is rich.

Miss Tery, you could not begin to afford the education that I have, both religous and secular. I have been taught to think logically at one of the top 3 higher education facilities in the US. I have literally spent years studying theology and I believe in Jesus Christ. Hardly blind faith.

You have given absolutely no reason for anyone to respect your opinion over anyone elses. Your repeated attacks on religion leave you incredibly transparent. Which leaves me with one question. What has the church done to you personally to cause you to hate it so? I think you need to answer that question for yourself before you can truly participate in any educated debate about religion.

 

Any discussion of religion carries no more weight than whether one is a Carolina or Duke fan. To take it more seriously than that is embarassing. But then I guess sports fanatics get pretty caught up with their teams as well.

 

You have to have a basic understanding of religion to be able to have an educated discussion about it. I have studied Judeo/Christian through the religions of the Far East. I am confident I can have an educated discussion about religion. What are your qualifications?

 

One can be an educated fool. Debate theology with a Muslim cleric. I do not debate theology, just the existence of a higher power.

 

So ...you're not being true to your own rules? Certainly, you don't like your own beliefs being ridiculed, but you can certainly dish that out.

Generally, intelligence and logic go hand in hand with scientific understanding.

In other words, being condescending and dismissing doesn't make one intelligent. You can't say it's so and make it be so.

 

Apparently the only fool in this thread is the uneducated one.

 

Hehe.....I feel just like I'm in the hoops forum. Athiests are a tiny minority in this neck of the woods. Very few of that minority actually speak their minds. I do, and will continue to do so. Get over it.