What about history classes? Didn't they teach what went wrong with religion?
Do you have any idea how many more people died because of good ol' fashioned human greed & avarice as opposed to religion? WW1 - 20 millions casualties, WW2 - 40 million casualties, An Shi Rebellion - 30 millions casualties, the list goes on & on. The casualties of wars caused by religion is pathetically small in comparison. In addition, religious groups have done their part to clean up the mess & improve this world.
I'm not talking the bible as a science book.
In the first post you said that you don't understand why they tell you to read the bible when you could read a history or science book instead. This implies that:
a) you think the bible is a collection of fairy-tales, which is fine, but if that was the case there would have been no need to make this topic.
b) you think that people are treating the bible as something that can offer 100% proof of god.
And I didn't say that theists owe us a scientific explanation for god at all.
You did here:
Their obligation is to convert people, and asking for an agreement if god is real.
Which says that they are obligated to give you proof that god is real, though I'm not sure what you mean by the second part; it reads as "theists' obligations are to ask for an agreement if god is real", whatever the hell that means. I'm sure your sentences make sense in your own convoluted mind, but I can't make sense of it.
In addition you said in the first post that Christians are wrong. Give me proof.
The real argument is asking why the hell are people trying to convince people to read the bible?
Because they think that the stories in there will inspire you to believe in a god, along with other evidence that there might be for god's existence.
Did you not read the first post? It's not George W. Bush that I was mainly talking about, it was the polls and comments. And again with the flaming, I'm a little short on my reading comprehension skills? Oh the irony.
No excuses dude. I don't care if you were talking about other people as well. You clearly stated that George W. Bush doesn't believe in evolution, even when the article says the opposite. In fact you didn't even have to read the article, you could have just look at the title: "Bush Says He Doubts Bible Literally True". But I guess that slandering our president doesn't bother you? (even if he deserves it)
Isn't it obvious in the comments on which certain set of individuals are at what side?
I'm not going to go through 3000 comments, and even if I did, 3000 comments out of the 215000 voters are hardly indicative of anything. It's the statistics here that are important.
And besides, the only thing I ever done is clicking your profile, then saw your registration date. Obviously not your posting history. Even if I did use the search engine on the forums, it did say all of your posts belonged to here after all. I assume you're just a guest who's like "OMG WTF" or someone's friend that wants you to argue.
Yeah so I'm a lurker and I registered so that you wouldn't give theists (and frankly, atheists as well) a bad name. I might also want to use some of this site's other features as well.
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