Just curious........
"If it can't be seen how can it be proven?"-Common question of the doubter "Faith"-Common answer of the believer
2006-06-12 09:38:10 · 15 answers · asked by BuckFush 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely.
The definitely exist because no one has ever proven they don't exist. Scientists have spent years trying to prove they don't exist and they have never done so.
Which means they exist.
I love the Easter Bunny and have ever since Hugh Hefner showed her for what she really is.
2006-06-12 09:43:36 · answer #1 · answered by Left the building 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
*sigh*
Even as someone who is not an atheist, even I am saddened by the depths to which atheist apologetics have sunk. We've gone from Nietsche and Albert Camus to the "flying spaghetti monster" in the span of three or four generations.
I do not believe in the "Easter bunny." I do, however, believe in the existence of Saint Nicholas, a man who was once the bishop of a place in Turkey called Myra, during the era of the Diocletian persecutions and the edict of tolerance from Constantine.
As to God? The existence of a deity is not something which can be said to be without proofs, although both sides of that debate have some things they can point at. However - I frankly think, given the highly anthropic character of the universe, that deism of some sort actually has the stronger scientific case. Then there are the natural and scholastic proofs of God, of the kind Thomas Aquinas makes.
However, the idea that all knowledge must - and can only - come from observation and deductive reasoning, that is a modern and recent conceit, and requires a kind of crippling and murder of the soul. A sunset is more than angled sunlight ionizing the atmosphere - it is arguably beautiful. But knowing the latter cannot come from deductive reasoning.
I decided sometime ago to stop killing my soul, and simply experience "what is" - in all its possibility.
2006-06-12 16:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will not insult you or question your belief for that would be against what Jesus stands for. I will share with you a story about an atheist who now knows that Mathematics and G-- are the only two that are never ever wrong.
Faith is in your heart. You feel it and it is very real. Nothing breaks that. Nothing you say, nothing scientists say, NOTHING.
For me to lie, would be a crime against my self and mostly G--. So I will tell you with the out most truth. I SAW JESUS' FACE APPEAR BEFORE ME AT A WOODEN WALL. HE SPOKE TO ME.
The funny thing is that I tried to make up any possible reasonable excuse to belittle and discredit that apparition. Then, it happened again. I asked myself why me? I don't believe and am certain these things don't exist. My heart was far from the truth, so I denied it for 3 months or so. Then, one morning it just came inside of me. I guess, this is what people always meant be the "holy spirit" cleansing you. But now, I only spend time in the Internet for one and only one reason. To glorify his name.
"love everyone just like I love you. Only then will people know that you are my disciples."
I plan to do just that. I am a little shy right now, but soon will find it within me to pull myself together and share and do more for G-- in the name of Jesus Christ.
Nothing will ever change my mind and could ever test my faith.
Jesus said, "blessed are those who have seen the glory of G-- in me and believe, but more blessed are those who haven't and yet still believe."
2006-06-12 16:59:15 · answer #3 · answered by lam_9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in some of them. Honestly, the boogey man? give me a break. But I was playing cards with the easter bunny and the tooth fairy the other day...strip poker, it got a little distrubing.
What's wrong with believing in something you can't see? I believe in atoms, electrons, quarks, and extremely distant solar systems, and I am not likely to ever be able to see any of these things with my own eyes.
Everybody has to have some faith in something, even athiests believe in themselves and what they know they will achieve, even though it has yet to come to pass.
2006-06-12 16:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by thenetnomad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never believed in Santa (don't celebrate xmas), same with the easter bunny, never was told about the tooth fairy as a kid so no on that one too. Knomes, fairies, and lephrechauns, no again. But I do believe in the boogey man, used to hear many scary stories about him!!!!!!!!!!
2006-06-12 16:44:04 · answer #5 · answered by Shqiptare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see love. I can see the coldest person on earth even he has compasion even if its just a bit.
If an airplane was in a million peices on the ground I dont think it would be feesable for it to put itself together without an inteligent hand.
I dont think this universe just fell together by chance. That to me is as feesable as the easter bunny. The universe runs to well to have been an accident and it is not to me sceince to beleive that it was all just a mistake. I do beleive in evolution just as when you bake a cake you place yeast in the dough let it rise by itself add heat and let sceince do the work but bread dont fall into an oven by chance thats silly as silly as the tooth fairy.
2006-06-12 16:47:47 · answer #6 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone believes in the Easter Bunny! Those who claim they don't believe are just pretending because they are evil! The other beings you mentioned are of course false idols and don't exist at all, you evil person! I bet YOU get no candy eggs at all next Easter. Then you're gonna be sorry when all us Bunny believers laugh and laugh as we eat our magical candy eggs. By the way the Bunny is brown. Only evil false bunny worshipers say he is pink. They get no candy eggs either.
2006-06-12 16:54:55 · answer #7 · answered by gilgamesh4003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are things that my mind beleives in and there are things my heart beleives in. To dismiss Santa, leprechauns, gnomes, etc. out of this world takes out much of the joy.
Besides the gnome is the spokesperson for Travelocity! The leprechaun is the spokesperson for Lucky Charms! The elves are the spokespeople for Keebler! So how dare anyone say they are not real.
2006-06-12 16:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, there is no such thing as any of these things. And my children know it too. They are way more advanced in their thinking and maturity because I have always told them the truth and not allowed them to believe in such garbage. Jesus is the TRUTH!
2006-06-12 16:52:52 · answer #9 · answered by proudmatriarch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SINNER! Just see if the Great Pumpkin visits YOU this Halloween!
2006-06-12 16:58:06 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋