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2007-02-24 05:37:43 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you should actually read it first. i didn't say i agreed. jeez. u ppl.
2007-02-24 05:41:19 · update #1
"I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day."
2007-02-24 05:46:46 · update #2
"Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around."
2007-02-24 05:52:09 · update #3
I thought it was very good and informative. He had a point in many ways. It was inspiring and intelligent.
2007-02-24 05:48:04 · answer #1 · answered by honeyluvsyou2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some human beings have confidence that God is a tension that set issues in action yet that would not have a hand on each and every thing that happens as though our international replace right into a checkerboard. some human beings have confidence that because of the fact God is a tension He has no arms or actual skill to repair some issues. some human beings have confidence God is love, and whilst there is hate there is no God latest - in basic terms evil. some human beings see that for the period of Nature there are forces that are in charge for the two the effective and the damaging issues. Penn Jillette does have a ingredient, yet there is likewise a ingredient in believing that there can the two be God and the potential of our with the flexibility to help others interior the destiny, considering that according to danger - because of the fact God has no human arms - we've been created incredibly for this interest. according to danger God does not have created us if there have been no issues to be solved. on a similar time, according to danger there is conflict between the theory that an entire universe would be brilliantly defined to artwork with perfection on the vast scale mutually as we human creatures are yet a tiny area of that super scale with particular standards/desires that are actually not inevitably matching those of the grander universe.
2016-10-16 09:47:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is interesting, but I think faith is a good thing, he even said it in his eassy he has won the genetic lottery. a lot of people are not so lucky to be a multimillionair with everything they could ever hope for already given to them, and a family that loves them like he has. To him it seems like he dosen't need God, he has it all ready. well what about people who are not as lucky as he is? Just because he has ever now here on eath dose not mean he will have everything he needs.
2007-02-24 06:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Speak freely 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say " HE HAS NOT FOUND JESUS YET " so of course to him it sound like fiction.doesn't heaven even sound to good to be true to christians like us ? Of course it does !!! Thats why we need to read the bible and all the sudden it all makes sence. Why do so many people call the bible fiction ? Because a lot of times to believe the bible you have to live like it and to live like it means to really really change our life styles wich is probably a lot harder then just saying " oh well the bible is just fiction there is no god "and I'am going to live my Life the way I want ! A lot easier but not the way to heaven !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blessings , Nicole
2007-02-24 05:50:51 · answer #4 · answered by Nicole C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree with his statement or beliefs, but I do admire his honesty and openness to others. His thought process that goes beyond simple atheistic ideas is admirable as well. It seems as though he doesn't use his ideas to simply bash Christians or make himself feel morally superior. I wish that more Christians would treat atheists with such Christian courtesy.
2007-02-24 05:49:04 · answer #5 · answered by skimdaddy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he has made a decision and has not really searched for God. He says this choice not to believe in God opens up his life, but in reality it closes it. He is missing out on everything God can do for him, including making him complete. To be honest, I pity him, although I respect him for making a choice and standing by it. How sad it will be when he dies and is proven wrong with no chance to change his mind.
2007-02-24 05:47:25 · answer #6 · answered by janejane 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Witty, yet deeply incoherent and circular. Sorry, but believing or disbelieving in the existence of anything should pull one out of solipsism. And what is so virtuous about exchanging subjective truth for intersubjective truth when that is what you accuse Christians of doing?
2007-02-24 05:50:26 · answer #7 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'd say he's wrong. Do you automatically believe everything any celebrity says? That's even more foolish than believing the Pope is infallible.
2007-02-24 05:40:08 · answer #8 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He writes "Without God, we can agree on reality"... um ... sorry we cannot. He has taken a leap of faith that denies reality, it denies history, it denies the evidence of nature, it denies the conscience.
He has placed his faith in the absence of God. I rest my faith in the presence of God. We are making contrary claims about reality. On this we cannot be in agreement; only one of us can be right.
2007-02-24 05:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by tj 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that's a great essay. Of course, I'm no christian...
2007-02-24 05:43:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋