What Would an Evangelical Christian Country Be Like

[cannabineer]

The cycle continues until enough of us accept how insignificant we really are.

There seems to be a leap of logic here, between religion and significance. Fill it in?

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Ah, but the “inerrancy” fantasy! …Which has allowed those same (& many other) pastors to “prove” that the criticisms are bogus & that their (‘non-interpretations aren’t interpretations, but WHAT IT’S ALWAYS MEANT IN EVERY LANGUAGE & EVERY TRANSLATION

In this fantasy, nothing in the thing CAN be wrong cuz TWoG & God miraculously force it to always say and mean the same things…that they say it means. The Bible says so.

ALL OF IT hangs - not on ‘proof of gawd’ or ‘moral imperatives’ - but on whether the ‘blanket immunity’ to reason & real experience can have any basis at all…and so far, all I’ve seen is demagoguery, bombast, & apologia. And a complete failure of the theory in practice.

Absent any sane, non-self-recursive look at the matter, it’s just an other Procrustean bed, ready to lop off whatever can’t fit…we believe it as a literal description of reality (if we do) at our very great peril

I have read the bible, and the torah, and the koran...Not as a believer, but more as a way to know when i'm being bullshitted and lied to.
Anyone who can read the contradictory passages, the false logic, the contrasting writing styles, the cruelty committed by a just and loving god, the hypocrisy, and think that innerancy applies to any of them is already pretty much insane.
You don't argue with insanity, you just humor it if it isn't dangerous, or isolate it if it is.

 

[bursto]

Every organized religion in the entire world has always done more harm than good, and i doubt that will ever change.
I personally don't have any use for any of them, i can think for myself, and don't need the advice of a "biblical expert".
I do and will vote against anyone who claims to be guided by religion. I will vote for a "godder" if the alternative is a worse one, or to avoid a republican getting elected, but i consider a religious democrat to be dangerously close to a republican...not to be trusted, they've already given their allegiance to an organization that they will place higher than their government service.

you guys do definitely have a lot of radical nutjobs over there. So i understand your view, but God and Religion are two different things
your right about religion causing wars an strife, through out history, but that was mans greed not God's fault

 

[bursto]

ok, tell some truth then.

easy its all the truth,

all are real humans that lived on earth

 

[CunningCanuk]

There seems to be a leap of logic here, between religion and significance. Fill it in?

Religions exists because too many of us can’t accept how insignificant we are in the universe.

 

[CunningCanuk]

easy its all the truth,

all are real humans that lived on earth some for more than 100 years pre flood
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[bursto]

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oh ok yeah how stupid of me the simpsons has always been right

 

[MtRainDog]

easy its all the truth,

all are real humans that lived on earth some for almost 1000 years pre flood
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Why did their lifespans shorten over time? Did they run out of Elf blood?

 

[bursto]

Why did their lifespans shorten over time? Did they run out of Elf blood?

i think God got bored of us hanging around 1000 years running a muck not listening to him so he changed it to 100ish
imagine how much weed you could grow if you were around pre flood, if you lived for 1000 years

 

[CunningCanuk]

oh ok yeah how stupid of me the Simpsons has always been right

The universe is expanding. Why?

 

[cannabineer]

Religions exists because too many of us can’t accept how insignificant we are in the universe.

not sure I agree.
not sure I’m up to formulating a rigorous counterargument either.

Though I recently read a book Inside The Neolithic Mind that made a pretty brave argument that religion and animistic cultures are neurological in origin. Perhaps we are wired to see nature as the stage for supernatural agencies.

 

[cannabineer]

The universe is expanding. Why?

It overate?

 

[bursto]

i dont think i could handle changing the water in my res tank for a thousand years

 

[CunningCanuk]

not sure I agree.
not sure I’m up to formulating a rigorous counterargument either.

Yeah, me either.

 

[bursto]

just remember that because i think the bible has credible information in it, doesn't mean im anything like the nut jobs you guys have over there

 

[CunningCanuk]

i dont think i could handle changing the water in my res tank for a thousand years

That’s a lot of trimming.

 

[cannabineer]

just remember that because i think the bible has credible information in it, doesn't mean im anything like the nut jobs you guys have over there
i still grow weed and stuff

you mean like, dude built a floating zoo and lived 950 years?

 

[bursto]

you mean like, dude built a floating zoo and lived 950 years?

totally possible pre flood and pre the change made to our life span by god, that is written in the bible
thought you guys didnt have the steam for an discussion

 

[cannabineer]

totally possible pre flood and pre the change made to our life span by god, that is written in the bible
thought you guys didnt have the steam for a discussion, on this

ive tryed to pull the bible apart myself its pointless

the trouble is that you’re using the book to defend what’s in the book. That doesn’t work well.

[I’ve tried] to pull the bible apart myself[;] [it’s] pointless

Soak it first; it’s pretty thick.

 

[Ozumoz66]