Merged (edited) General thoughts about Christianity and the bible

[Steve]

There was a common disclaimer to do with how the video was produced. That's all.

Still running with that idiocy, huh? You really should familiarize yourself with the word fictional. It does not mean "this is real but we have to say it is not".

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Guys! Crusty has terminal foot-in-mouth disease. Be nice. Help with funeral expenses.

 

[Rusty Tyler]

It was clearly labeled as fiction. It explicitly said you were not supposed to take it as fact. It's not just a CYA disclaimer. It's an explicit instruction from the makers not to use it as you did.

I reread it. I see you are correct.
That wasn't the way I took it.

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[JayUtah]

I reread it. I see you are correct.
That wasn't the way I took it.

The fact that you took it the wrong way is what a dozen people have been trying to tell you for a dozen or more pages. That fact that it took you this long to see what everyone else has been seeing all along is exactly why the saw doesn't cut both ways.

 

[Steve]

I reread it. I see you are correct.
That wasn't the way I took it.

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One small step in the right direction, padawan. There is faint hope that you may yet come to learn to reason.

 

[Minoosh]

Does that really require faith, or is it fear-based activity based on fear?

Don't you have to believe something exists before you can be afraid of it?

 

[Joe Random]

Don't you have to believe something exists before you can be afraid of it?

Kyser Soze ?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yep, exactly as I was saying. He was proposing that adaptation is possible without genetic change. Just like the position you at least seem to propose. Yours is not full-tilt Lysenkoism, but only a very partial version. But still...

And it's stupid beyond ken.

 

[8enotto]

Don't you have to believe something exists before you can be afraid of it?

Maybe not. Having no understanding of a vision, idea or event can cause someone to have fear.
If the only explanation is drought = god of rains angry then some might fear the imaginary god without a real belief in it.

 

[The Norseman]

Two man felling saws had teeth designed to cut both ways, but you don't see them much since the advent of the chainsaw.

Yes, and (vaguely) interesting is that the chainsaw only cuts one way.

 

[The Norseman]

I was told that they ONLY looked at the site. (no research)
Seems generous to call that research. (non-event)

That they only looked at the site speaks more to their determination to be overly thorough, as as been said many, many times already that the supposed global flood is physically impossible from the jump. It is literally impossible for a flood like the bible described happened.

 

[The Norseman]

But it's all over now?

Not for me. Carrying that torch is the only exercise I get these days...

 

[The Norseman]

Actual Canadians get all the hot girls.

Is the reverse true? Canadians wanting the hot American guys? True love, immigration purposes, you know....





Just asking for me for a friend.

 

[Pixel42]

I reread it. I see you are correct.
That wasn't the way I took it.

No, you uncritically accepted the video because it fit your dogma. Because that's what you always do.

There's a natural tendency to do that, because of the cognitive biases that have been built into the human brain by natural selection. Sceptics know they have to fight that tendency, and have invented various techniques to help them do so.

Until you learn basic critical thinking skills and how to apply them you are going to keep making this fundamental error.

 

[SpuriusMaximus]

Put an S. J. on that and drop it in the bucket.

Are you that desperate?

By Odin's iPatch, dude, you've been answering to the SAME message at least three times by now, STILL not offering any evidence or even a valid argument against it, and obviously just trying to bait me. I mean, I'm not even asking for a SOUND argument, just VALID. Or hell, even ONE counter-example would do to invalidate my point. Just ONE case where adaptation changed the appearance of members of some species, without changing the genetic distribution. That's literally what it takes for me to bow down. But you just abandoned all else in favour of trying to bait me into playing your silly game. Even Rusty didn't stoop THAT low so far, and the old gods know I contradicted him more than I ever did your misunderstandings of how Darwinism works. Even he seems to have more dignity. So right back at you: are YOU really that desperate?`

 

[SpuriusMaximus]

Well, I mean Canadian women are mighty fine, but have you even seen Czech young women? By Odin's iPatch... It's like when beauty was distributed, some elder god tripped in Bohemia, spilled the whole bucket, and went, "Eh, I'll just call it a day."

 

[catsmate]

There was a common disclaimer to do with how the video was produced. That's all.

It's fiction.
There is no magic cave under the Euphrates.
You were wet.
You were fooled by an obvious hoax.
Are you going to admit these facts?

 

[catsmate]

Well, I mean Canadian women are mighty fine, but have you even seen Czech young women? By Odin's iPatch... It's like when beauty was distributed, some elder god tripped in Bohemia, spilled the whole bucket, and went, "Eh, I'll just call it a day."

They also tend to be open minded and kinky I'm my favourite experience.

 

[Puppycow]

Doubting Thomas was a skeptic.
Jesus applauded those who believed having not "seen". (scripture below)

It's a very convenient dogma for the church. Faith itself is a virtue (according to the people who profit, or make their living, by peddling faith).

But why is faith per se a virtue exactly? Because, according to the Bible, Jesus and God said that it is? But then you have to take it on faith that faith is a virtue. So it's what they call "begging the question", isn't it? Being a "Doubting Thomas" is considered to be a bad thing within mainstream Christian circles, but the very idea that faith itself (belief without evidence) is in fact virtuous per se, is itself inherently unsupported by anything other than dogma and tradition.

 

[Darat]

It's a very convenient dogma for the church. Faith itself is a virtue (according to the people who profit, or make their living, by peddling faith).

But why is faith per se a virtue exactly? Because, according to the Bible, Jesus and God said that it is? But then you have to take it on faith that faith is a virtue. So it's what they call "begging the question", isn't it? Being a "Doubting Thomas" is considered to be a bad thing within mainstream Christian circles, but the very idea that faith itself (belief without evidence) is in fact virtuous per se, is itself inherently unsupported by anything other than dogma and tradition.

And as many of us know the bible is full of examples of god providing evidence he exists, whether that be Jesus walking on water or the elders kicking it back with god and sharing a meal with him or the holy ghost possessing folk. Why god has become so shy in recent centuries is a mystery given that god is perfect and never changes.