Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
Boiler, you make unsupported claims every single day, and then you weasel when asked to verify them. So you indeed shouldn't expect anyone to listen to your demands.
So you're saying that you're behaving a lot like Boilerman, right?
You know, that's nothing to brag about.
Originally posted by: MisterPicture
So you're saying that you're behaving a lot like Boilerman, right?
You know, that's nothing to brag about.
Say what?
Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
Yes, but a major element of the problem is that religious believers (of all stripes) elevate their religion from a belief system, the tenets of which have absolutely no basis in fact, to "gospel truth" (so to speak), to the extent where even suggesting that the man with the long white beard sitting on a cloud may not be real is a moral and often legal crime.
If you think the Christian faith is rational, I suggest you ask yourself if there is even one tiny shred of evidence in the totality of human experience to confirm the existence of God, heaven, hell, life after death, Cleveland, etc. If you're honest with yourself, your answer would be "none," and the next step, if you had the courage to take it, would be "Well, why do I believe it, then?" And your honest answer would be " Because it makes me feel good."
I'm kind of weird, apparently, in that the more pleasurable a belief might be, the LESS inclined I am to embrace it. That's because I don't want to disable my bullshit filter. And yeah, I get it; it's tempting. Wouldn't it be great if we had eternal life and our time in this world was just a prelude? If people's suffering would be alleviated and compensated for a thousandfold after they left this world? If bad people were ultimately punished? If good people were ultimately rewarded? It would be soon wonderful. But there's no evidence at all--not one iota-- that that's the way things are.
You'll find the truth one day, but it will be to late
Originally posted by: MisterPicture
So you're saying that you're behaving a lot like Boilerman, right?
You know, that's nothing to brag about.
Nice MP!
Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33
Nice MP!
Except that MP got confused and didn't realize that I'm not the one who started this thread, and I made no claims about what Pence said or didn't say.
