Sorry I was gone for a couple weeks, I had my summer 2 week drill.
This is going back a few pages so bear with me here.
Stoney McFried said:
But it is hurting us if a religion insists upon interfering with the education of out children.Promoting ignorance is doing harm.The catholic church covering up the rape of children is doing harm. The church burning people in medieval times for proclaiming the world was not flat was doing harm.It has held science back,women back,minorities back, for years.Who is to say where we would be if we didn't bear the yoke of superstition?And how so YOU KNOW god gave you free will? Or anything?Where is your proof outside of the Bible?Has he spoken to you directly?
My religion is not forcing its beliefs onto anyone. With any group you will have your radicals, and you happen to be dealing with a few who are in a spot of authority. The Catholic church covering up molestations is shitty, but that was not a belief of the religion that was an act of corrupt individuals.
Oppression never fully works, this forum is a perfect example. I cannot legally do anything in regards to what this forum is here for, but yet here I am. Where there is a will there is a way. Slavery and Sexism were not developed on the basis of religion, they've always been there and non religious took as much part of those acts as the religious.
Stoney McFried said:
That's a baited question, if I say yes you'll slam me for the whole belief in God thing again, but yes I do believe in "God's Will" and I am not required to prove the logic of faith.
Stoney McFried said:
Now you're just arguing semantics by panning my choice of booki.SUbstitute whatever title you like, the end result of the argument is the same.
I apologize you weren't able to recognize my sarcasm, it can be hard to convey in writing at times but I thought you would have gotten it. My bad for attempting to be humorous.
Stoney McFried said:
Then believe.Just leave my children's education OUT of it.
Never brought them into it, I am not fighting to have school curriculum changed at all one way or the other.
Stoney McFried said:
"Were said to be?"Who said?Them? Who else?
Yes them, who cares who else, I'm not the one looking for clarification.
Stoney McFried said:
Yes people have done that throughout history.Creationism is another incarnation of just that.Here's a handy pocket list of some of the do's and don't of the bible.Amusing, but true.Please don't tell me Jesus was all about love;he preached on many occasions the exact messages of his father.
http://exchristian.net/pics/wallet bible1.pdf
http://exchristian.net/pics/wallet bible2.pdf
Jesus was not only about love, that is true. There is still a cause and effect scenario in play here, but with Jesus you have forgiveness for wrong doing instead of condemnation.
Stoney McFried said:
Plenty of proof.There is no historical record of him.Period.None that cannot be proved a forgery.The ROMANS WERE METICULOUS RECORD KEEPERS.There is no mention of Jesus being executed by Pontius Pilate by the Romans.The only proof any crationists can ever cite is the bible.And using the bible to prove the validity of the bible is kinda silly.
See this is not proof, the lack of information is never proof, you believe in science you should know better than to try and pass this off as proof.
Stoney McFried said:
So, if the big bang never happened,who created god?Did he just arrive out of nothing?According to creationsists, that simply can't happen, at least when they're referring to the Big Bang.So it has to apply to a creator as well.
This is a question that you will never have an answer to, neither side will because then we have to deal with the concept of time and the concept of a beginning.
Stoney McFried said:
Did you used to be Tronica?
? I don't know what you mean by that one, is that an old member or something?
Well, I'm starting a grow journal, and am done killing time in this section, so I probably wont be posting here very frequently.
It's been entertaining,
-blind