The Faith & Religion mega Thread

Originally Posted by bluegospel You don't have evidence for God because you're not looking for it. You're looking for evidence against God. There is plenty of "evidence" for both cases. Those who love God favor the evidence he gives, and obey accordingly. Those hating God have their plethora of philosophies, and will not admit God's Son or descendants as evidence, and if they do, they discriminate inwardly against them.

??? What god ???? if there is one why does he/she/it allow so much evil to exist? why do we have such upheaval in the world? why are the muslim extremists so bent on destruction? why do babies die before knowing life? why do we have such sicknesses as cancer? why can one man not love another as his brother? Don't say it is gods will and walk away ... these are questions that (as you claim to know god) should be able to answer . or perhaps you could just simply answer some of the questions put forth earlier instead of jabbering in circles as you tend to do until people get pissed with you! BTW quoting passages from that piece of fiction "the bible" are getting very thin .

Originally Posted by bluegospel That day is but a moment away!

Pointless speculation.

Originally Posted by TobiSGD Haven't seen any evidence for god still.

You have the testimony of his church, which you reject.

Originally Posted by TobiSGD Nope, they favor blind faith, and obey accordingly.

To the contrary, we recognize Christian testimony as evidence, not only valid, but preeminent.

Originally Posted by TobiSGD The usual mistake of believers. Atheist/agnostics don't hate your god. Why should anybody hate something that is non-existent?

Pretense.

Originally Posted by bluegospel You don't have evidence for God because you're not looking for it.

There's no evidence at all.
Human brain is made in such way that if you'll start looking for "proofs" you'll find them everywhere, even when they don't exist. That's called confirmation bias or delusion and is treated by psychiatrists in extreme cases. IMO, people that see image of jesus on a piece of fried bread fall into that category.

Originally Posted by bluegospel You're looking for evidence against God.

Before trying to put everybody into single category, you should remember that there are atheists, agnostics, and followers of different religion (compared to yours) who do not have that goal.

Originally Posted by bluegospel There is plenty of "evidence" for both cases.

There is none. It is said that Jesus has been performing miracles, which could be fairytales. Right now we have sufficient technology to distinguish miracle from trickery, and there are no miracles performed by your church, no visits by angels, jesus, no communications with god, nothing. The reasonable assumption is that your god either did not exist to begin with, has died, has disappeared, or has abandoned humanity, or that maybe there's another god that do not find humanity worth attention.

Originally Posted by bluegospel That day is but a moment away!

Nonsense. Unless you have immortality pill, I'd advise not to hold your breath - the sun may die long before people find THE proof that god exists or that it does not exist.

Originally Posted by bluegospel You have the testimony of his church, which you reject.

"church" cannot be trusted, because it is not interested in finding "truth" if said truth will destroy the church or religion. They're interested only in keeping people believing, even if entire belief is a lie.

Originally Posted by bluegospel Those who love God favor the evidence he gives, and obey accordingly. Those hating God have their plethora of philosophies, and will not admit God's Son or descendants as evidence, and if they do, they discriminate inwardly against them.

And here we go again.
In other words, your argument (again) is "I'm special so I have access to secret knowledge, while you do not, and if you disagree with me, you hate god". You're not special, and people don't hate something that they aren't even sure exists. If you can't prove your position without bible references, it is because it does not have any logical foundation behind it.

Also, I happen to live in the same world, and I definitely see no "signs of god's love" anywhere. There are plenty of "signs of indifference", though, but absolutely nobody is "loved", as far as I can tell. In any direction you look there's injustice, indifference or suffering. In my opinion, if you the only thing you see is "god's love", you need to wake up, take off your "rose-colored glasses" and take just one hard look at the world you live in.

Wow..people this gets boring. So many evidence around you in information age yet you still choose to be ignorant..oh well..your choice..for people who need visible proof ancient civilisations were not dumb and that ancient constructions were not done by slaves or for lame purposes here is something that prooves they were smart + that man in his writings also mentioned existence of Gods..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle
http://maps.google.com
Also watch this video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO5TRhVlUQ8
Conclusion after everything in this topic + if you searched for God in your own life ignoring brainwash craptalk - force we call God exists and religions didn't come from empty air!!! Take this you ignorant atheists..
P.S.I'm done trying to open eyes for you here - rest is your choice..

Originally Posted by Arcane in information age yet you still choose to be ignorant.. ... God exists

"The irony is strong with this one".
That's what I meant when I was talking about confirmation bias and delusions. So believing in "new age" "spiritual talk" is okay, claiming to be able to communicate with "aliens from andromeda" (I knew a guy like that) is okay, but questioning existence of god is not? Pfft. That's not "information age" at all.

Anyway, maybe you aren't aware of that, but the reason why some people do not believe in god, is because they DID search for god, but did not find it. Christians turn into atheists and agnostics, you know, and they normally have a good reason for that.

Originally Posted by Arcane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

The structure is considered mysterious by some who have claimed that Leedskalnin constructed the castle using some unknown form of science, however, these claims have not been rigorously analyzed by either engineers or scientists, and [15] such theories seem to be discounted by evidence, such as photographs showing Leedskalnin working, apparently using traditional methods like block and tackle.[16] [3] The Coral Castle site states that "if anyone ever questioned Ed about how he moved the blocks of coral, Ed would only reply that he understood the laws of weight and leverage well." [5] He also stated that he had "discovered the secrets of the pyramids",[15] which of course could be interpreted in either esoteric OR engineering terms.

http://www.livescience.com/680-myste...iful-myth.html

Also:
http://www.cracked.com/article_19418...years-ago.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_18718...en-solved.html

Originally Posted by Arcane Wow..people this gets boring. So many evidence around you in information age yet you still choose to be ignorant..oh well..your choice..for people who need visible proof ancient civilisations were not dumb and that ancient constructions were not done by slaves or for lame purposes here is something that prooves they were smart + that man in his writings also mentioned existence of Gods.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle http://maps.google.com Also watch this video.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO5TRhVlUQ8 Conclusion after everything in this topic + if you searched for God in your own life ignoring brainwash craptalk - force we call God exists and religions didn't come from empty air!!! Take this you ignorant atheists.. P.S.I'm done trying to open eyes for you here - rest is your choice..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0

Originally Posted by Arcane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

Regarding coral castle.
There's this video you might want to check out.
The dude explains how to build stonehenge using gravity. Also, he rotates buildings. Alone.

It is all quite simple, once you throw away the whole "aliens/gods must've done it" thing.
The problem with "there's no way humans could've done it" (pyramids) or "there's no way it isn't designed by god"(life) is that such situation do not prove magic, existence of god, or miracles. You simply surrender/give up on trying to find truth out, shut down your brain, throw your sense of reason away, and annouce "it is a miracle!". While in reality you simply haven't tried hard enough to research and find out how it could've been done by humans, or how it could happen without god.

been quite quiet on this topic lately ... did everyone decide to give up the fight? LOL

Yeah. They've all been running around in ever decreasing circles and disappeared up their own rear ends.

You know what, I propose we set up our own religion or cult; lets start by deciding how many wives we get to keep. I suggest 8. One for each day of the week and one for your birthday.

Originally Posted by DJ Shaji You know what, I propose we set up our own religion or cult; lets start by deciding how many wives we get to keep. I suggest 8. One for each day of the week and one for your birthday.

I think you have forgotten about women who make up some part of LQ community.

Originally Posted by DJ Shaji You know what, I propose we set up our own religion or cult; lets start by deciding how many wives we get to keep. I suggest 8.

EIGHT wives? That sounds like Hell to me.

Thanks but I'm very happy with my one beautiful wife !

Originally Posted by sycamorex I think you have forgotten about women who make up some part of LQ community.

hmm, well, they could also have 8 husbands, no problem ;-)