re christian morality is in article eastman uucp dps nasa kodak com dan schaertel writes in article ousrvr oulu fi kempmp phoenix oulu fi petri pihko writes dan schaertel dps nasa kodak com wrote i love god just as much as she loves me if she wants to seduce me she ll know what to do but if he she did you would probably consider it rape probably because it is rape simple logic arguments are folly if you read the bible you will see that jesus made fools of those who tried to trick him with logic our ability to reason is just a spec of creation yet some think it is the ultimate if you rely simply on your reason then you will never know more than you do now your argument is of the type you ll know once you try yet there are many atheists who have sincerely tried and believed for many years but were eventually honest enough to admit that they had lived in a virtual reality obviously there are many christians who have tried and do believe so so nothing it may work for some but not for others it doesn t give any insight into an overall god or overall truth of a religion it would seem to be dependent solely on the individual as well as individually created and since christians have failed to show us how there way of life is in any wy better than ours i do not see why the attempt to try it is necessary or even particularly attractive to learn you must accept that which you don t know what does this mean to learn you must accept that you don t know something right o but to learn you must accept something i don t know why this is not the way i prefer to learn it is unwise to merely swallow everything you read suppose i write a book telling how the great invisible pink unicorn tm has helped me in my daily problems would you accept this since you can t know whether it is true or not no one asks you to swallow everything in fact jesus warns against it but let me ask you a question do you beleive what you learn in history class or for that matter anything in school i mean it s just what other people have told you and you don t want to swallow what others say right well we will nerver know for sure if we were told the truth or not but at the very least there is a bit more evidence pointing to the fact that say there was a military conflict in vietnam years ago then there is a supernatural diety who wants us to live a certain way the fact that jesus warned against it means nothing i warn against it too big deal the life death and resurection of christ is documented historical fact this is not true the first two choices here life and death are scantily documented and the last one is total malarky unless one uses the bible and that is totally circular perhaps it be better to use the imagination or one s ignorance someone else will address this i m sure and refer you to plenty of documentation as much as anything else you learn how do you choose what to believe and what not to i could argue that george washington is a myth he never lived because i don t have any proof except what i am told however all the major events of the life of jesus christ were fortold hundreds of years before him neat trick uh how is this there is nothing more disgusting than christian attempts to manipulate interpret the old testament as being filled with signs for the coming of christ every little reference to a stick or bit of wood is autmoatically interpreted as the cross what a miscarriage of philology there is no way to get into a sceptical heart you can not say you have given a sincere effort with the attitude you seem to have you must trust not just go to church and participate in it s activities were you ever willing to die for what you believed well since we have skeptical hearts thank goodness there is no way to get into us here we have the irreconcilable difference christians glorify exactly what we tend to despise or snub trust belief faith without knowledge if i am lucky one day and i happen to be thinking of god at the same time my enkephalins go up then i may associate this as a sign of god it will feel right and i will trust without knowing maybe religosity does not seem to be anything that is conclusively arrived at but rather it seems to be more of a sudden affliction i believe many of us were willing to die for what we believed many of us were not the question is is suchg an attitude reflective of a correct or healthy morality it would seem not to be the same thing could reflect fanaticism for example and is any case an expression of simple selfishness adam adam john cooper verily often have i laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good simply because acooper macalstr edu they had no claws understand one another i fear i am beyond your comprehension gandalf
