I Haven't Noticed That.........You Must Live In A Very Strange Neighbourhood......... :yikes: Cheers Glen.
I actually was excited to see why I'm retarded but then... well I don't inow, that was a pretty lame way to call me retarded. ... that's all really, nothing to add except that I've decided that this thread no longer deserves to call me retarded
God gives us the freedom to believe or not to believe.I don't think atheists are stupid.I don't think the op gives a very good impression of the church.
where's your evidence? i don't see the signature of any god on your so called bible. its popular because it appeals to the ego wanting to believe it already knows everything and doesn't need to learn anything. of course i'm wrong. when two people argue about any belief, they are always BOTH WRONG. but the thing is, we don't live in a universe that gives a rat what we believe, we DO though, live in a universe where what you screw up for someone else, you screw up for yourself by doing so. your christ has returned three times and been rejected the same way and for the same reason he was the time he was called that, because he didn't put on a good enough show with enough special effects. your god isn't going to come floating down out of the sky, but WE are already bringing about the end of our species as we know it, by how we are treating the world we were given to live on. yes, there IS a universal wonder of strangeness, but it is one we experience LESS the more we try to define it and there may even be god-like beings, lots of them, but the there is not goodness, in condemning everything that doesn't subscribe to some hierarchy, that may or may not exist, nor in wanting to be feared. it flatters the human ego to imagine the universe was created to be our plaything, but everything it it, exists for THEIR OWN reasons, and WE, are little more then its afterthought. which is not a bad thing. its independent diversity is what makes life interesting enough to live, even if we do, at times, find it inconvenient.
Dear Christians, I was raised Christian. I became born again through the church. I identified closest to Republican politics. Then I started thinking for myself. Turns out... Christianity is nothing more than a karaoke mashup. I don't know of any significant tenets or stories in the Christian Bible(s) that are original and not based on something a previous religion already had told. For instance, virgin birth, only son of Creator, world-wide flood, etc... None of it is original to the Bible. Besides that, whatever version you read now, if it's in English, it has only a vague relation to the original works. Let me ask this... If God is infallible and The Bible is the word of God, then what would either side say of the other when asked which Bible is the truth? As in, if I ask a Catholic if the KJV is complete, would they say yes? If I ask a Christian if the Books included in a Catholic Bible (that aren't in KJV, et al) are the word of God, what would the answer be? There are some great things I got out of the church and religion, but I would never say ANY version of ANY religion is a definitive version of the truth of the entire universe. Or even just the entire Earth for that matter.
What's stupid about not believing in God? The question of whether God exists or not is to me hardly an easy question to answer. It's not like answering "Does two plus two equal four?". In fact I'd say it's one of the hardest questions that humanity has ever asked. The world is full of highly intelligent professional academic philosophers and scientists who cannot agree on the subject, so to say you are stupid if you don't believe in God is frankly a ridiculous statement to make.
They haven't found fast numbers of these in comparison I mean. There's billions to the left and billions to the right of that timeline, but relatively few in between found in the numbers of the before and after. I don't disagree with evolution and I believe things do evolve. Just not me from a monkey. Like I say before if everyone else wants to be a monkey then that's their monkey business. :rofl:
"monkey" is a paper tiger. evolution doesn't say monkey. it describes our ancestors as looking somewhat apelike. but it doesn't say monkey. saying monkey is something the ignorant invented to attempt to discredit what real science is and how it works. family trees branch. monkeys are distant cousins only, not ancestors. and anyway, religious beliefs aren't about things in the physical world. they're about how people treat each other. everything else they mention, is only done so to illustrate concepts about how people treat each other.
Like it's said here... The common ancestor is from the Miocene Primates group... or something like that. (I may not have the name exactly right.) Point is, we don't see chimpanzees or bonobos evolving into humans, because they never did to begin with.
I agree. What evolution makes clear is that all species (pick any two you like...an octopus and a blade of grass for example) share a common ancestor at some point in the past. In general, the more different the species are, the farther back in time you have to look to find their common ancestor. There is still great debate about when the last human-ape ancestor lived; 5-7 million years ago seems to be a common answer, but the issue is far from settled. More genetic research should hopefully shed more light on this fascinating topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_common_ancestor
i believe in the one god of people on another planet billions of light years away, i believe in a whole nonphysical parallel universe, populated by god-like beings, who love everything, are at war with nothing, who recognize consideration as morality, and aggressiveness as evil, and never heard of christianity, or any other form of religious fanatacism. the narcessism of the human species is the reason our earth is shunned by the rest of the universe. (and i guarantee if earth tries to export that, it will be committing suicide)