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Easter: Message of Jesus?
| February 24th, 2018 at 12:32:09 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Common because it's abundant, and without real evidence to back it up, worthless. Don't pretend this isn't known to you, it's all part of your bag of tricks. Just keep citing testimonial evidence and hope nobody catches on that it's useless as real evidence and proves nothing.
You mean all those anecdotal and conflicting stories about gods throughout the ages? Add them all together and you have a hill of beans. It's the stuff myths are made of. You really need to snap out your befuddlement and read some of Joseph Campbell's books. He was raised a Catholic also, but he came to his senses. I don't hate Xtions, I don't hate anybody. I think they're confused and misinformed, and highly entertaining since all their power has been taken away and they can no longer have you killed or imprisoned for disagreeing with them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 24th, 2018 at 5:59:07 AM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Personal testimony is not worthless, but again let's just leave it as an agreement that it can be considered evidence for God's existence and move on to another. Since you seem to like the unexplainable that has been scientifically studied then maybe the next piece of evidence we could discuss are miracles. I'm talking about the scientificly unexplainable healings and the rigioursly examined miracles like Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Shroud of Turin just to name a few of the hundreds of such phenomenon. Also the fact that belief in God is universally present throughout human history in every culture is evidence that there is a God not that God is a myth. Remember Campbell speaks about myths revealing and carrying profound truths. Finally, I'm just curious. When do you think it was that some Christians imprisoned people for heresy? It happened, I know, but I'm curious about when you think this happened. I can tell you that today, right this very moment there are Christians who are imprisoned and tortured because of their beliefs. There have been more Christian martyrs in recent years than anytime in history. If you don't like ideologies that use force and other means to make you believe then maybe you shouldn't look to the distant past but open your eyes and look around you today! “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| February 24th, 2018 at 10:39:08 AM permalink | |
| SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4177 |
My favorite post of all time. TY BBB. |
| February 24th, 2018 at 10:44:24 AM permalink | |
| boymimbo Member since: Mar 25, 2013 Threads: 5 Posts: 732 |
Fascinating. All Tucker's et al's studies to is to find the bull-hooey and remain with unexplained coincidences with absolutely no scientific mechanism to back it up. Kind of like religion: unexplained coincidences that lead to a conclusion that can't be proven true. |
| February 24th, 2018 at 11:03:17 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 |
Boo-yah. There haven't been many interested in taking it up, either, to repeat, validate, and verify the results through another study. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| February 24th, 2018 at 11:21:55 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
LOL! Whatever, it's like arguing with a flat earth person, a complete waste of time. You still understand nothing about this subject. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 24th, 2018 at 1:08:56 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Bob, why do you get so mad when people question your beliefs? Listen, learn, and respond calmly. These type of answers don't do any good, don't advance the conversation, and make you look very insecure about your beliefs. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| February 24th, 2018 at 1:14:17 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Very "kind of like". Religion has unexplained coincidences, but also: historical fact, revelation, personal experience, testimony, coherent theology and philosophy, scientific evidence, art, beauty, music, creation itself, loving service, and more to support belief. But it all still comes down to faith, just not a blind faith or a faith just based on unexplained coincidences. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| February 24th, 2018 at 3:04:38 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It's not a 'belief'. It's the methodology that they know nothing about and completely dismiss. If they knew the methodology well and then dismissed it, that I could accept. They have to dismiss it because even one person who died and was born into another body totally cancels out the reward/punishment religions of Xtionity/Mormonism/Islam. How did this person miss being judged by their awful god? So all past lives research has to be bogus to them, no matter how sound the methodology. God myths die hard in the face of cold hard facts. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| February 24th, 2018 at 3:07:00 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Really? Name one, I can't think of any, enlighten me. Religion is 99% made up stories passed down to later generations, and then taken as truth because there's no way to verify any of it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |