Official Religious Debate Thread

[Demonic]

a video in which this poster baits even the good christians with the help of The Chasers

[Swastika von Judenbutt]

I don't really think you can debate religion, it's as useless as debating sexuality or favorite colors.  It's in the brain of the believer.

[Veritas]

I don't really think you can debate religion, it's as useless as debating sexuality or favorite colors.  It's in the brain of the believer.

You're right, nobody ever changes their mind on religion.

[iDante]

a video in which this poster baits even the good christians with the help of The Chasers

lol
Very true, and yet denied by most christians.

[Shard]

I don't really think you can debate religion, it's as useless as debating sexuality or favorite colors.  It's in the brain of the believer.

You're right, nobody ever changes their mind on religion.

Is that sarcasm? Cause if its not(do excuse my mistake) I am living proof of that statement being wrong.

[ds dude]

Religion is the biggest trick mankind has ever pulled.

[Smegma]

Religion is the biggest trick mankind has ever pulled.

God must be angry at us.

[ds dude]

Yeah he must be, but sadly I believe in the quote. I can't help to be an atheist. My parents never forced me to go to mosque, so I gather as much knowledge as I could and went for my own path.

[Smegma]

Yeah he must be, but sadly I believe in the quote. I can't help to be an atheist. My parents never forced me to go to mosque, so I gather as much knowledge as I could and went for my own path.

That doesn't mean you have to be an atheist.

[UnknownSniper]

Atheists and non-believers many times are kids who were forced to go to church and such, don't use that as an excuse.

[The Geologist]

Oh, the perilous path of the atheist. 

DISCUSS NAO.

[Veritas]

Well we are the most distrusted minority in the US, so

[UnknownSniper]

Well we are the most distrusted minority in the US, so

In the US, but Americans are the most hated in the world. It all works out fine, the opinions of the average American shouldn't matter to anybody.

[ds dude]

I've got my reasons.

I honestly think that the bible is beefed up using the term God.

I find that people seem to think that God wrote the bible, yet it was humans who were "inspired" by the Holy Spirit.

I honestly don't know, I haven't done enough research to start discussing.

[Smegma]

So you can't discuss it, yet you've decided you are an athiest?

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

I find that people seem to think that God wrote the bible, yet it was humans who were "inspired" by the Holy Spirit.

Besides semantics, what's the difference between God writing the Bible and God telling people what to write?  How would God write something EXCEPT through people? What interface would he use?

[Smegma]

God told me to kill someone.

[Lord Frunkamunch]

Besides semantics, what's the difference between God writing the Bible and God telling people what to write?  How would God write something EXCEPT through people? What interface would he use?

...Anything he wanted? Being omnipotent, there aren't any conceivable ways by which he couldn't have given us his word. Short of carving them on rocks too big for him to lift.

From a 'loving god' viewpoint, it would have made a lot more sense to go with a less fallible method than humans. Something humanly irreproducible, to avoid the whole "making s**t up so that people will take your misguided opinions as godly law" temptation that comes along with every game of theological-text-translation telephone.

[iDante]

Besides semantics, what's the difference between God writing the Bible and God telling people what to write?  How would God write something EXCEPT through people? What interface would he use?

That's not the point. The point is that it did go through humans who are flawed, and is taken as the literal word of god.

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

From a 'loving god' viewpoint, it would have made a lot more sense to go with a less fallible method than humans. Something humanly irreproducible, to avoid the whole "making s**t up so that people will take your misguided opinions as godly law" temptation that comes along with every game of theological-text-translation telephone.

Oh come on, you know how people are.  Just as it's incredibly easy for some people to accept mundane as divine, it's equally easy for some people to brush of anything presently unexplainable as just that: they can't explain it, but they know it's not divine.  I mean, heck, there are things in the current world that we have no idea how humans accomplished them, but saying "God did it" seems like such a cop-out.  In the same way, we might uncover "scriptures" that seem inhuman to the point of being supernatural, but the people who are skeptical now will remain skeptical then.