The world is a burning airplane. Religion offers some small degree of hope. Anthropology offers dinosaur bones. It would be wise to look for a parachute before jumping.
I decided to build a temple to atheism in my home. I thought it would be appropraite if the temple was made from dinosaur bones. The bones were just like god. Not available.
2007-07-19 05:57:23 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great analogy....
...except the world isn't a burning airplane...and religion offers no "real" hope...and dinosaur bones are real... (where did you go to school?)
2007-07-19 06:01:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Dude it's Paleontology that offers dinosaur bones. Anthropology is the study of humanity. And on your later question you said you were Christian. Obviously you are a two faced liar. No wonder your other questions didn't make sense.
2007-07-19 16:36:54 · answer #2 · answered by Ten Commandments 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion offers hope....false hope. If that was all it offered i think everyone will be fine with it. Unfortunately it also offers intolerance, discrimination, sexism, war, repression and now in our modern world, pedophilia.
So before you look to the atheist how about looking at yourself, examining those beliefs with open eyes and not blind faith. i do recall no one who ever jumped out of a plane with blind faith that they will be fine. No everyone makes sure their parachutes is working. This has nothing to do with athiesm and science it has more to do with christians and other religious people actually finding out what is the evidence behind what they believe.
2007-07-19 13:16:56 · answer #3 · answered by uz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, your world is a burning airplane, not mine. (My world is a happy place with my family, my children, and my sailboat.)
Second, you are looking to a spiritual entity and/or you are looking to a reality, but a reality from the past.
You will never find what you seek until you look at the here and now.
Perhaps that is why you fear the reality of the present and cannot face it.
It offers the real answers you seek, just not the ones you want to hear..
2007-07-19 13:06:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
A more apt analogy would you jump out of a perfectly good airplane without a parachute because some crackpot claimed it was burning even though there was no evidence it was burning..
2007-07-19 13:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The last I heard anthropologists studied human bones. Dinosaurs were gone millions of years before people existed so anthropologists would not find them very exciting.
It is hard to imagine what the point of this "question" is.
2007-07-19 13:01:50 · answer #6 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would grab the controls and hope the stupid plane didn't blow up, I might look for a dump fuel button. To fit in your metaphor I would look for the actual truth, that the christians are trying to burn the world to bring about their apocalypse but I would grab the reigns of humanity and steer us to safety. It might be painful when we finally reach solid ground and nobody will be happy at first but we will survive and grow.
2007-07-19 13:02:02 · answer #7 · answered by PoseidenNeptuneReturns 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yawn. The difference between parachutes and god is that we can all verify they exist. Your all-powerful all-present sky daddy seems strangely absent. Like the Easter Bunny.
2007-07-19 13:04:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The problem with your insult is that the parachutes are a material object and can easily be found if looked for.
2007-07-19 13:00:28 · answer #9 · answered by Spencer Y 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Anyone that would jump based on an unsubstantiated claim of another without verifying the facts based on observable evidence would deserve to go splat. It seems to me your metaphor has backfired.
2007-07-19 13:05:51 · answer #10 · answered by Murazor 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋