Becoming a (train) conductor is a conscious decision....
To not drive a train isn't.... (unless perhaps your father was a conductor and said to you one day "Son, how about joining me in the family business?)
2007-11-28 04:32:28 · 12 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was going to say "the conductor of a mythological train", but that would have made NO SENSE
2007-11-28 04:38:20 · update #1
Works quite well, yes.
I don't drive trains. The only reason I was ever interested in driving trains in the first place is because somebody told me that I would be able to drive it to a nice happy little eternal place where all my dead relatives are. Once I figured out that was a big fat lie, my interest in driving trains pretty much died.
Well, wait. Actually, this doesn't exactly work, because trains still exist, whether we drive them or not. God doesn't... so people who think they are driving trains are actually driving imaginary trains.
2007-11-28 04:38:06 · answer #1 · answered by Linz VT•AM 4 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Lot's of people choose to not drive the train.
Let's examine this further...the train has three components: the engine, the engineer and the load. When compared to the Christian Trilogy, the engine become the Holy Spirit, or power of movement. The load becomes humanity, or the souls thereof, in the boxcars of Jesus. The engineer is God the Father, the decision maker.
Therefore, to ride this train to heaven, you simply pile into Jesus' hopper and let the power and the glory take you there.
But then, there's the problem of the tracks. The train cannot go where there's no track. Who put those there? I think it was Charles Darwin because they have to be designed to start and stop in the right places. What good is a train that goes nowhere full of people just along for the ride?
That's all I'm trying to say...
TD
2007-11-28 12:50:01 · answer #2 · answered by TD Euwaite? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is a pretty good metaphor for whether or not there is a God but I bealive most Atheist make a conscious decision to become an Atheist I know I did. Most everyone is exposed to religion in some form and have to make a conscious decision about it. And of course theist make a conscious decision to accept God.
2007-11-28 12:55:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never thought about driving a train so it was not a conscious decision. I have never even been on a train.
I think that being a theist is a decision made because people are taught that there is a God.
2007-11-28 12:44:15 · answer #4 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some answers is not by words only there is a big deference between the answer you want and the (answer) and both could be right or wrong .
believe in this first .. now read this carefully
Reading from the source is the base of human character( dimension) which it has no knowledge in this world once it born
which means that HC's(human character) knowledge increased by the reading from the source in multi dimensions
Muscle , nerve and capability from the dimension of progeny
Logic from self dimension
Conclusion from Experience embodied in Nucleus Nucleolus
Knowledge from choosing your (dimension) own trusted source .
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Now ask yourself ?
Where/when HC learned expressing self to Smile and Cry ?
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The father who teaches his own son have been taught from another father from another HC from another HC by multi-dimensions in one array of start birth of train makers using multi-dimensions to reach the Conclusion of a train after many Experience embodied in Nucleus Nucleoluses of HC who trusted his own sources --- > the same source HC learns to cry and to smile in the 1st 40 days of birth .
Feel free to name this source by your own best words u ever have in your own deeper dimension .
2007-11-28 13:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by Maged 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you are saying that theists make a conscious decision to believe what they do.
That flies in the face of all the atheists that say theists are brainwashed.
So, no, that isn't a good metaphor.
2007-11-28 12:46:00 · answer #6 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The problem is that you can prove that a train exists. You can prove that the train engineer exists. You can even prove that the conductor exists.
You cannot prove a god exists. So your analogy does not measure up.
2007-11-28 12:36:55 · answer #7 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It depends on whether you believe that one has free will and is in charge of their own destiny.
2007-11-28 12:35:47 · answer #8 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes, the same can be said about the little yellow goblins who run the electricity from your light switch to your light when you flick the switch.
you don't decide to not believe in them, you have to decide to believe in them
2007-11-28 12:36:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
That seems to work.
2007-11-28 12:37:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋