It seems strange that folks who are so vehemently opposed to a God Who created everything often do not read the Bible, or study fulfilled prophecy from an unbiased and interested mind. They have their minds already made up, without any reasearch done on their part. The blind leading the blind, is what Jesus said....how sad. Believing in creation by a loving God is the most wonderful way to live. Check it out, someone?
2007-07-12 02:18:02 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You go girl!!! Right on.
2007-07-12 02:23:23 · answer #1 · answered by Jim B 3 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Science vs. magic #3?
It seems strange that folks who are so vehemently opposed to a Wizard Who protects everyone often do not read Harry Potter, or study historical facts from an unbiased and interested mind. They have their minds already made up, without any reasearch done on their part. The blind leading the blind, is what Dumbledore said....how sad. Believing in protection by a loving Wizard is the most wonderful way to live. Check it out, someone?
Doesn't the above look totally ridiculous to you? Yet all I did was take your sentence structures and replace christianity with the fictional Harry Potter universe. That is about what your own question looks like to us atheists, just as ridiculous and biased and absurd. You're going to have to provide something a lot more convincing than that, believe me.
2007-07-12 08:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what a friggin joke. lets just take another look at this rant...
"It seems strange that folks who are so vehemently opposed to evolution that created everything often do not study the science or see the proof from an unbiased and interested mind. They have their minds already made up, without any research done on their part. The blind leading the blind, is what Jesus said....how sad. Believing in evolution and logic is the most wonderful way to live. Check it out, someone?"
see your entire argument, with a few things changed here and there make a good point from a Atheist view...
2007-07-12 02:27:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems strange that folks who are so vehemently opposed to (evolution) do not read..., or study ... from an unbiased and interested mind. They have their minds already made up, without any reasearch done on their part. The blind leading the blind, is what Jesus said....how sad. Believing in creation by a loving God is the most (deluded) way to live. Check it out, someone?
There. Now does that make it true?
2007-07-12 02:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by Crabby Patty 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Often do not read the Bible". Is the present tense intentional. I HAVE read it, is is necessary that I continue to read it?
"Study fulfilled prophecy". I'd love to. Please show me some "fulfilled prophecies". Just to be clear on what I would call a fulfilled prophecy we would need to establish:
1. The prophecy was made before the event. We need to establish that it was made before the event not "reported after the event as if made before the event".
2. The prophecy needs to be clear and specific
ie
a. It would have been falsified if the "fulfillment" didn't happen.
b. Not overly general: "Everton will win the FA cup" is a predition "A sporting event will take place and a team in blue will do well" is not
c. Not part of a "scatter gun" approach. "Everton will win the FA cup" is a prediction, but if I predict that and then predict another team and then another and then another I can't start crowing about by predictive ability if ONE comes true.
So a passage that makes a specific, isolated, prediction that we can establish was predicted before the event would be great!
2007-07-12 03:36:12 · answer #5 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read a number of religious 'bibles' including the satanic bible from the temple of set, the holy bible, and numerous other variations. This is what i've got, Satanic bible once you get past all the semi-weird stuff just tells you to think for yourself. It says even the satanic bible wants to teach you nothing but give you the ability to think for yourself and do everything to help yourself. It's rigid and kinda stupid honestly, but i feel the same way about the holy bible, but in different ways.
I agree with you though, i believe in creation by 'A' loving 'god'. I quote them because the bible or no other entity has proven that to me. I believe there is a higher power, but how come you consider it fact that it is YOU who are correct about that which cannot be proven? You know, the crusades felt so strongly that Christianity was the way to go if you didn't convert you were executed... in the name of god. Until you witness someone cutting an innocent humans throat because they will not convert to the religion you believe in and love... only then can you truly say it is the most wonderful way to live.
2007-07-12 02:28:03 · answer #6 · answered by Agnostic Front 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll just add one more... I have read at least most of the Bible. Much of it, I have read several times. I find non-believers are often more knowledgeable about the Bible than most believers.
What I think you really want is for people to accept the Bible with a blind faith, instead of looking at it rationally. Would you do that with the Koran? Why not?
2007-07-12 05:46:53 · answer #7 · answered by skeptic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is that the same loving god that had Abraham put a knife to Isaac's throat before he said "never mind?" Everyone looks at this story as if they were God or Abraham. Now pretend you were Isaac.
Is that the same loving God that had Joshua run all the legal inhabitants out of Jericho or kill them? No one said or even implied the residents of Jericho had done anything wrong.
Is that the same loving God that sent Hagar an Ishmael away from Abraham? That was the start of all the problems in the middle east that still boil now.
Maybe you mean the same loving God that watched idle as the Nazis put 6 million of His chosen people into poison showers and cremation ovens. Is that the loving God you mean? Or is it your God that is mean?
2007-07-12 02:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by Owl Eye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"often do not read the Bible, or study fulfilled prophecy from an unbiased and interested mind. They have their minds already made up, without any reasearch done on their part."
strange, i have similar thoughts about those who dismiss evolution without bothering to so much as understand it.
prophet john appears to have a new and interesting mutation.
2007-07-12 02:26:50 · answer #9 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I used to be a "Christian" in the sense that any child could actually be of any religion. When I read the bible, myself, of my own free will, I was very biased about its contents in that I WANTED it to be true. My common sense and true decency were stronger than any blind faith I had in it. I've done extensive research on both sides and can plainly see which side outweighs the other. Because of my bias TOWARDS Christianity, it has taken me years to admit to myself and others that I simply do not believe in a god or gods. It is an interesting read, I'll admit, but that is all that it is.
2007-07-12 02:45:16 · answer #10 · answered by Jacquelyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most atheists are more knowledgeable of the bible than theists,who tend to prefer their biblical knowledge be spoon fed to them by pastors.So in that statement,were you lying from ignorance or malice?"blind leading the blind"Now THAT'S ironic!"believing in creation by a loving god is the most wonderful way to live"Is your OPINION.My OPINION is believing that all this is a dream and I will wake to find out I am actually god,and can create universes with simply my word.Unfortunately,what you WANT to be true has zero relevance to whether it IS true.Wanting a creator does not make said creator exist.So,actually,nothing you stated has any substance whatsoever
2007-07-12 02:30:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋