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I hate christians

What a bunch of fools.

They plan out their entire lives, according to rules set by a kooky, ancient book of mythos.

And hey, dontcha just love how they ever-so-conveniently excuse themselves from providing proof, by using crutches like "faith".

Sorry, but just because you believe something, that doesn't make it true.

Moses turned the sea into blood... and then later, parted it?

Yeah... and sweat socks fly south for the winter.

Ask yourself... "If somebody told me such an event had taken place TODAY, would I believe it?". No? Point proven.

Ignorance is a scary thing.
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just to finish making your point... what do you believe in??
you are a twisted mofo plz die
bah humbug
@: galeni
@ Galeni: What do I believe in? Hmmm.. how about.. reality?

@ Tim Swain: OMGZ! waaat? You have outwitted me with your baseless accusation!!!
what is reallity for you? what is something normal to belive in?? explain yourself.
yeah you must be quite stupid to believe that bible crap.
everybody with half a brain or more knows that.
@: galeni
Galeni, I don't have to explain myself to you.

You're not a real christian, anyhow. You date a lesbian. No TRUE christian would do such a thing.
If somebody had told me someone did that today, obviously there would be heaps of followers around this person to see if they were sent from the real deal. I would need to see it to believe it, 'cause there is a lot of phonies out there. And you forget to mention that Moses had the power of God with him. You are an idiot
@: callo
nice try, better luck next time
I think you'll find all religions believe in something different, including atheism; Which I assume you are a part of.

Atheists believe the world was created from a big explosion. Then Life just appeared from this explosion. Over years we just kept changing until we got to how we are today. What makes that more crazier than the other religious beliefs?

The truth is we will NEVER know how the world was created; everything is theory. Whether it was made by a superior form, or it was created by accident, or maybe not one of the human theories have even came close to the truth. The only people who are ignorant in this scenario are the people who say any idea is out of the question.
Bob,
judging from the timescales the sun works in, and in the certainty it has been shining for immense amounts of time.
Including all the fossil records we find all over the planet, showing the evolution of species, it is impossible to deny that life on planet Earth has been evolving for hundreds of millions of years.

Knowing so, and then picking up a book which claims the opposite(the bible),
makes every intelligent person take the idea of the book out of the question.

Thats not due to ignorance but to intelligence and knowledge.
Not to mention that this book doesnt really back its claim of this with anything whatsoever.

The major reason people tried to believe this was its threat "if you dont believe this crap then youll burn in hell forever".
Which off course was a message that was ment to come from a "good" god.
How dumb is that?
Come on all ya christians... defend your faith!
I actually completely agree with Bob. No one really knows the truth, and even though faith is relevent, we still can't prove which religion is the "true" one.

Mimir2, arguing with devout Christians - that their religion is fake - is pointless. Same as trying to force your beliefs onto someone else. Instead, we should be trying to put our beliefs aside and attempt to unite as a community, society and world.
Off course we know that god did not just put Adam and Eve on the ground out of nowhere fully created.

We do know that.

All the fossil records prove it, and so does the age of the sun and the information we pass down to our children and how we are ripe to evolve and are doing so as we have different characteristics and they are inherited down to our children. Meaning the characterstics of us as a species is changing infront of our very eyes. And judgingt from the age of this world there is room for virtually infinite evolution, both in our past and into our future.

But off course if you just say "No".
Then there wont be much in the way of discussion, but thats not because of lack of evidence or ability to rule out suggestions how everything came about but rather due to unwillingness to discuss the issue and use our god given brains.
agreed. should be more normal
Mimir2, you said: "and in the certainty it has been shining for immense amounts of time."

Care to prove this? All your doing is following things other people have said. You have absolutly no proof of any of this; the same way no one can prove Christianity or other religions are true. As far as you know the world isn't even round. Have you ever been into space and looked down on it for yourself or have you only seen images that were given to you by others.

You cant say "Thats not due to ignorance but to intelligence and knowledge" because none of this knowledge is your knowledge, it's just what you have chosen to believe because others gave you the theories.
The sun is slowly converting its hydrogen into helium.
It will take 4 BILLION years for it to finish its fuel.
The immense timescales the sun works in makes 4000 years the equivalent of a fraction of a second.
And therefore the probability of it starting to shine just 4000 years ago, having 4 billion years to go is extremely slim.

"All your doing is following things other people have said. You have absolutly no proof of any of this; the same way no one can prove Christianity or other religions are true."

Sure, all of human civilization might as well be a gargantuous hoax where everything we think we know is just a lie made up by one guy or another.
The fossil records were never there, their existence were just made up by some anti-religous guys.
And C14 dating doesnt really work and everybody that has tested it(large number of universities) has joined the mega-conspiracy circle enveloping the planet making sure we science guys continue to be in the dark.
Sure, it might be the case.. sure.

The way i believe the fossil record is there is not the same as the way religious people believe the bible.
For the fossil records not to have been there requires a conspiracy against every thinking human being on the planet at such an immense scale and with such an immense incentive for anyone realising its fakeness to blow it away that it would never work.

I havent chosen to believe anything.
I come to conclusions basing it on what makes sense.
I am not saying there is no higher power, absolutely not.

Im just saying we shouldnt be listening to bullshit like much of the bible.
As long as your open for suggestion.
what if that higher power is God? wouldn't you look stupid?
what is your definition of God?
You know, statistically speaking, it's impossible for 2 billion people to be wrong.
Using that logic:
2 billion believe.
4 billion dont.
=> believers loose and god ceases to exist.

But off course this logic is false, for what people believe does not change the laws of the universe, or god for that matter.

And besides, christian believers are nowhere near 2 billion.
On the surface, sure, but if you start talking to a random selection of people labelled as christians youll find that so many of them dont believe that stuff at all.
ok, and in that '2 billion' (if its true or not), should be close to that number, Christianity is the most popular religion, then by atheism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism (no specific ranking order). So you've got Christian believers, who are greater number than any other believers, and Allah is apparently the same being as God (as said by Muslims). So looks like God is the being believed in most than any other religion. You lose.
Nice try, better luck next time.
guys, explain yourselves better.

When you mean god as in by the bible, say so.
Say the bible god.
When you mean god as in by the koran, say the koran god.

John Doe, what excactly is it that those 2 billion people are claiming or believing?
We are quite unsure of what you are trying to say.

Callo, you have hereby entered a logic where you are checking which religion is most popular and assuming the winner in that determines who is right.
Do you realise what a pile of crap such a claim is?
I just used the logic that you and john doe were using. And didn't you read what I wrote? The bible God and koran God are apparently the same being (as said by Muslims, I don't know 'cause haven't read the koran.)
Want me to write that a couple more times to get through to you?
Yes and i pointed out, right after using it, that it was entirely false.

That even if they do believe in the same thing, that alone would never make them right.
Oh, fuck all you Christians. You should have learned when you found out Santa Claus was a fraud. The Bible is fiction. God is dead. Science has actual fact to back it up, not "faith". Faith is nothing. So shut the fuck up and deal with it: we're alone in this world. The best we can do is to focus on the life we have left and enjoy it together.
Moses didnt turn the sea to blood.I believe Christianity teaches that the Lord God did that.
Hey CockCrazyGirl,

Couple of questions for you. If you don't believe in God, cool. Your choice. If you hate Christians, ALSO cool, your choice there too.

But tell me this, why is it that folks like you, who don't believe in God or hate Christians, Feel The Need to belittle and degrade folks WHO do believe (or have found a faith that helps THEM get through this hard life)?

I mean, I don't like muslims much, character flaw, but I don't go out of my way to degrade them.

I can understand not believing in God, but is it really neccessary to hurt folks who do? Is it that you are simply one of those people who ENJOYS doing all you can to hurt others?

And if you Don't believe in God, what do you use to come to grips with your own morality? Just a "Whatever *I* want to do is alright" attitude?

If so, cool, but then if someone Else out there decides to physically hurt, rape, malign or demean You, you don't have much room to complain then, do you?

Hey, I am not trying to convert you, and I am not picking a fight. I just want to understand where you're coming from.

With respect,

Tobra
Much thanks to Mimir2 & helpline, for speaking logically.

@ callo: You're a complete idiot herd conformist. The popularity contest argument isn't worth the TP you wipe your bum with.

@ October/Tobra: How do you define "morality"? Good & bad are simply a matter of individual opinion. Usually, it works like this: "I don't like (insert whatever here), therefore it is bad" & "I like (insert whatever), therefore it is good".

What I am doing here is practicing my FREE SPEECH, just as those manipulative christians do, when they come to my door and attempt to convert me, and rarely take no for an answer, when I tell them I'm not interested in their abnormal beliefs. However, unlike those freaks, I don't go door-to-door and try to force THE TRUTH on them. Why does everyone think it's ok for them to behave in such a fashion, but if someone like myself posts something like this on the internet, everyone gets their panties bunched? Talk about a double standard. Geeesh.

I plan on calling the police on the next brood that shows up at my house. I'll have them charged with harassment.
The hypocrisy is all yours, starHAG.

Telling someone to "shut up" is a part of free speech, you ignorant swine. They don't HAVE to follow my advice, ya know.

Geeesh... you're living proof that age does not always equate to intelligence.

What a mess!
It is further noted that you have absolutely no idea as to what the term FREE SPEECH implies, you pathetic imbecile.

Free speech means I or anyone else can say whatever the hell pleases me/them. If I tell someone to shut up, that is free speech. If someone tells me to shut up, that is free speech.

Free speech is only infringed upon when c*nts like you flag other people's posts, as opposed to just voicing your disdain for the topic.

Free speech is exactly what it sounds like, dumbass. There's no limits. It is only when ACTION is taken against someone (i.e. if I tried to MAKE someone shut up, by flagging their posts, like you) that it becomes threatened. Telling someone to shut up is NOT the same as MAKING them shut up. That is YOUR department, you f*cking cowardly hypocrite. Do you think I don't know how many people you have flagged? THAT is an attempt at censorship.

Now, get out of my sight.
bitch wat do you have against stargirl!? she is one of the most honest people i know!
Are you her life partner?

Why don't you just let her fight her own battles? She's a big girl.

PS If you truly admire honesty, then you shouldn't have any complaints about my VERY honest opinion.

Run along.
jesus will take his revenge you ignorant bastard yey terrorists
its not ignorance you fucking retard, you're ignorant for saying that its bull shit, you dont know that so dont be fucking cunt and kill yourself, also we dont all plan our lives out, we sin a lot, maybe not as much as stupid idiot like you, but we do it all to, so look into things before you make claims and assumption, ok dumbfuck? I hope to go to heaven and see you burning in hell while Im at peace
@: Mimir2
I dont care if people dont beleive in christ and bible and all christianity or if they make fun of it, but its really fucking anooying when people make bad assumptions and insult us saying were dumb or fags (which dosnt make sense) for beleiving in something else, also my IQ is 110 so Im sure as shit not dumb you dumb broad
@: Mimir2
have you read the bible? I doubt it, so shut up hoe
ya it is, were human beings, were not perfect, we can be wrong about anything, even if everyone beleived the same thing
Well put
@: galeni
@geleni: waitwaitwait...you're dating a lesbian? Is this true?

Cuz..y'know, I'd be totally up for converting to Christianity if you let me in on a threesome. Just sayin ;)

@c*ckCrazyGirl4Life: Are you the person who asked this question? Because it doesn't look very much like a question at all, which makes it kinda hard to answer. Maybe something to think about for next time.
me and mosses used to hang and shit.. he was old

not only that! i eat my cereal with blood... so...
does it taste good?
What I find strange is the fact that you said there is no right or wrong. That has to be the most ignorant statement a man can make. By saying there is no right or wrong you instigate that truth does not exist, but if it does not exist then your statement is void. Strange isnt it?

You said "There is no proof to back up the claim that christianity exists." There is also no proof to back up the claim that it does not exist. All the things written in the bible have never been truthfully disproven. Yeah there are people who may say that they "Disprove" certain things but those who have done extensive research with this book have found no contradictions. If you want to believe something, then go for it but do not ever attempt to disprove something with false information. Moses didn't turn the Sea to blood. God turned the water in Egypt into blood. One of the most well known Bible revelations in the world and you couldn't properly quote it. You'll probably give me some disrespectful and unmeaningful reply so I accept that. But hear this, until you get your facts straight about the roots of christianity and the actual evidence vs. no evidence debate, and learn to communicate to others and present a plausible argument without slandering everything they believe in stop posting stuff like this on the internet. Its pointless, Its a waste of bandwidth and it doesn't help anyone except you so you can reassure yourself that you are indeed superior because you can see the faults in a world renowned religion that you obviously haven't researched enough to be attacking.

"Ignorance is a scary thing"

Well considering how angry you seem and how happy about 95% of Christians seem I would say ignorance is bliss =)

On a final note Just because you dont believe something doesnt mean it isnt true. If you cant understand the complexity of my closing statement I apologize.
@: Mimir2
oh you stupid fuck, you dumbasses who say such words about the bible, is just as bad if you say something bad right in gods face, you'll burn in hell if you dont change your ways
and honestly i dont give a single piece of shit, srry for language but any Christian who reads this type of shit would say stuff back because you know wat thts the power and love god gives to us all for us to worship him, so u know wat if you dont your prob just shut the fuck, im not the one whos going to burn for eternity!
@: jesus
oh wait, isn't revenge against the 10 commandments? so doesn't that make jesus a sinner, who is suppposedly the son of GOD? you have just experience contradiction, my friend. run along and make up a story that makes sense.
hmm....so god created us huh............so you expect to go to heaven...all thos priests expect to go to heaven...they expect us non-believers to go to hell...well, since we all sinned, what fucking difference does it make? if i'm going to hell, so are you. it's simple as that. i don't believe in god. you believe, but yu use his name in "vain" by using it as a threat of us burning in hell. doesn't that make you no better than I? and god created us, supposedly. so making us burn for the rest of eternity seems a little dark, no?
so your iq is 110 huh? disgraceful. im 140, and english is my SECOND language. on a written iq test, i got fucking 99 percentile bitch. so look whos talking. if you're under 120 iq, yur opinions on this topic isn't worth half a shit. if its over 120, believe god if you want, you still have hope of seeing the real truth. if you're under 120 and do not believe in god, then your iq is not under 120 man, at least when it comes to comprehending TRUTH. yes, i've read the bible. and i must say, its a load of shit.
oh, is that so? well guess what, we dont have to proof something DOESN'T exist. it's the way things work. it's like this: if i can't prove something is there, then i cannot argue its there. it doesn't mean its not there, but i have no right to argue that it is until i find proof.
speaking of the POSSIBILITY (based on how i said "if i can't prove something is there, then i cannot argue its there. it doesn't mean its not there"), that would also mean its possible for there to be a god called beerdick in the form of a huge dick. he made us by fertilizing the land with semen. you disagree? you say it's not possible? then you, my friend, just contradicted yourself. if you don't see how you've contradicted yourself, then i must say, i don't blame you for being religious. your iq is too fucking low for it.
good for you cunt scab, I dont care if yours is higher, 110 is high, dosent matter, I hope you grow up to be a failure, with an attitude like yours, you're well on your way
he never held a grudge against anyway, dumbfuck
anyone*
arrogance, its not a good thing you stuck up son of a bitch, stop bragging and dragging people down to try and bring yourself up
for saying the saying my beleifs are shit and the bible is shit is proving your own ignorance, I doubt your IQ is 140, its probably quite low and you came here to brag about it to make others feel bad, go ahead and brag, but you're a peice of shit for it, grow up
people can't always be honest on the internet, that is a fact. if you say mine iq isn't 140, i can say the same about yours. maybe its 60, who knows. you can't always be on top of the iq list, thats life. this isn't arrogance. it's proving to you iq doesn't mean everything. because according to your statement that higher iq means you're right, you've already lost the war. who invented the big bang theory? stephen hawking. and for your information, my iq isn't 140. i just recently took a professional iq test, and proved it to be 149. also, 110 is barely above world average. the chinese average is 110 . i am born there, and you would be considered under-average there.
hope all you want. hoping someone grows up to be a failure is an obvious sign of jealousy. also, it seems people like to call anyone "better" than them "arrogant". if that is the case, you were being arrogant yourself by shownig off your "high" iq of 110. judging by your reaction to my higher iq, i highly doubt you "don't care". and about myself becoming a failure, i'm afraid for you that is not true. i am able to put up an argument with far less fallacies and contradictions compared to you. This alone gives me better chances, however slightly, than you of suceeding.
also, my arguments on this page alone should show you just how high my iq is. from the way you present your arguements, i can safely say that either your iq is lower than 110, or you have a severe temper/ego problem.
I know Iq dosent mean everything, I said that on the forum, its your potential, nothing more, also I dont know what else you said because it was wayyyyy to long, but I do not have temper problems, your ignorance is annoying
also, I mentioned mine, you're the one with the issues, you freaked out and insulted me for no fucking reason, grow up
You're a complete moron, gunstarbob. The argument of "there's no proof something *doesn't* exist, therefore we should believe in it" is TOTAL lunacy.

That thickhead logic could be applied to MANY ridiculous mythos. There's no proof that leprechauns don't exist, either. Oh well... THEY MUST BE REAL!

Wow, you're stupid.
Somehow, I doubt Jesus would approve of your language, hypocrite.

Remember? Turn the other cheek.
what does the 10 commandments say about revenge? i know it mentions murder (not execution for crimes) but revenge from Jesus would seem to be punishment for breaking a law of God and not murder. i am not looking for someone to start being an asshole about this but rather someone who will assist me in a search for knowledge.
@: Mimir2
well there certainly is a higher power because science cannot provide an answer as to how everything originated. the laws of thermodynamics prove that matter can neither be created or destroyed, and that chaos cannot become order. meaning that by our laws of science the only logical explanation is that something that was able to work outside of our laws and reality had to have caused our existence. if someone has anything to disprove this please share. as always, in search of knowledge and not a raving lunatic who will shout condemnations at me for not holding the same beliefs as him/her.
but wait...the Bible is a real book, i have seen one once... making it part of reality. does that mean?... no! it couldnt be...
first of all, it's not really an insult, it's a way of contradicting you. By not reading myu arguement, you are simply turning the otehr way and ignoring evidence, wanting to be engulfed in your dillusions.
why the hell am I a hypocrite? I can beleive in the relgion, but I dont have to follow it word for word and law for law
well, why believe in a religion if you won't follow it?

it's like saying you like virgin pussy, but refuse to fuck one
thats a good point man

But I do follow it, just not law for law, lots of laws are bullshit I find, it is a HUGE sin to wack off, but screw that Im not gonna stop.

I dont want to try and be a saint, I just beleive in it, I beleive almost everything because I was risen as a christian since like I was born so its embedded in my mind
Totally AGREED !!
exactly. its embedded in your mind. the evidence is right there, yet you refuse to believe it. think about this: the first law of thermodynamics. it's not a theory. it's a LAW, like gravity and physics.
The First Law of Thermodynamics (Conservation) states that energy is always conserved, it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.
that is a LAW my friend. not your everyday law ofthe goverment, but a FACT. To deny a LAW of physics, gravity, or thermodynamics is simply stupid. you can't deny that gravity keeps you on the ground, and you can't deny that the laws of thermodynamics is real. so, according to the first law of thermodynamics, we CAN'T simply have been created by a greater being. the sun CAN'T have been created.
of course, this doesn't answer the question "how we came to be". if that is your arguement, then you are so desperate for an answer you would willingly believe a false one rather than to keep searching for the RIGHT one.
thanks, Im not denying science, not any of it, but christianity is what I was risen to beleive and follow, although I find it really fucking annyoing and strict, still I beleive in it
just because you were born into a religion, it doesn't mean you can't get out of it. many people don't even KNOW they can, while the option is open to them the second they turn 18. depends on the parent, sometimes whenever the kid wants to. besides, theres so such things as a religious child. a child does not have the capability to completely comprehend and decide which religion they are. you can only say "that is the child of a christian," not "that is a christian child,"
A person who completely denies his religion, but refuses to abandon it, is not truely denying his religion. If you TRUELY accept science at it's best, one cannot truely believe god nor creationism and the same time as science.
You're right, it is my choice, but it would break my family memebers hearts, since together they helped raise me a christian, as a christian, I beleive in heaven and hell as much as anything else, and Im afraid to offend God more than I already do.

Also, I respect your opinion that I cannot beleive in science and catholosim at the same time, but I have to disagree, Id say they meled together in some ways, if you are christian, then you belive God created all, and Humans are learning as we move on in life and discovering new things, which much of it we call science, at least thats my beleif, every christian has their own beleif in everything, like everyone else, and thats mine, for now anyways.
there are always people who are atheist, yet lists themselves as religious, all because of family members. if the parents are religious, chances are the kids will be too. in my opinion, religion should be kept away from kids till they're 18. before that, kids will believe EVERYTHING you tell them. it is simply not fair for them.
i recommend a VERY good read, "the god delusion" by richard dawkins, a professer of science at oxford university.
now, i can see that the debate is coming to an end. i can show a man the path to take, but i cannot force him to do it. when the only factors left is child influence and family pressure, logic will most likely be uneffective. for many, the love of their family means more than the truth itself. of course, like the saying, ignorance is bliss. i respect your value of love from your family, so i will say no more after this. however, if they really love you, they should respect your own beliefs, like mine has. i will no longer post on this, unless another theist decide to post on this.
i wish you the best of luck, and hope you take the right path. i have given you all the advice, shown you all the logic i known so far. theres far more to know in the book i mentioned earlier, and i recommend it too all.
Though not a Christian myself, I don't understand hating them. For the vast majority of Christians, the belief is a comfort as it makes them feel as though they are a part of something bigger than themselves and gives meaning to their lives. Even if I consider their beliefs to be absurd, if it's something they practise privately, it does not directly impact on my life and it doesn't harm others I don't mind what religion people are. What I object to is Christians who think that their beliefs should shape the laws and customs of the countries they reside in, and intefere with the lives of people who don't agree with their beliefs, but as I said, I don't believe that this is what most Christians are like, I think it's just the backwards ones that have the loudest voices.
that is where i respectfully disagree. read the book i recommended earlier, and you'll know just how much religion, especially christianity, limits our very RIGHT as atheists. it was not recorded, however, in an interview, george bush stated himself that he did not consider atheists to be patriotic or citizens of america. while over 95 percent of the population would vote for homosexuals or blacks, only 49% would vote for atheists as president.
in this world, especially in america, atheists are muchly hated, and are treated as badly as blacks 50 years ago. Many educated personnel on the american counsil had to fake their beliefs in order to be elected. Considering america was founded by men stating that religion should never mix with politics, this country has become a disgrace to it's founders.
from the crusades to modern day racism against atheism, i can honestly say, religion has always been, and always will be, for as long as it exists, an interferance to the proper education of science, and according to your statement, your life. you may not notice it, but the older you get, the more you realise, how much religion has taken away from you. even though religion was taken out of the school education system, there are always presentations on the subject from many churches, and the kids ranging from kindergarden to high school are forced to listen. those kids know only to obey the teacher. they don't even know about religious freedom. to them, they have no choice. it is the same as forcing a child to become christian/morman/whatever religion.
i have experienced this myself when i was 8. i did not know i could leave at any time. and at the time, if a student tried to leave, the teacher would not allow it. i remember the great impact the bible they gave us and the words they gave us had on us. children that young, who does not even have the generally accepted, by science, and by the education system, the big bang theory, already being fed religion. why are children learning a hypothesis, or even a lie, before learning what is accepted by the scientific and educational community as a fact and truth?
those children are easily convinced and manipulated through complicated and hard-to-comprehend words of religion, and, due to human curiosity, every child is bound to have thought of the question, "how did we exist."
most parents would simply say, "you are too young", and leave the kids wondering. how grateful would the kids be, after all that time, to learn what they thought was "the truth"? they wouldn't even understand what a religion was. they'd think that it is the truth. once a child learns something, it is very difficult to change their minds. this is how religion is spread. once you tell a child, who wants nothing more than happiness, and to have fun, that by believing in god they will be forevermore happy, how will you ever convince them otherwise?
how is it that religion has ever been removed from schools? all of what i have written clearly shows, even though it is out of the official system, it is still part of the unofficial one, as a "school event". as long as the perverted hypothesis of creationism is in existence, kids will always be brain-washed by it. nowadays, you hear creationism everywhere. it is impossible to keep a child away from that. this is why, as atheists, we are always affected by religion, creationists, and theists.
it seems i have confused lotsofjunk for undefined. now i will argue against undefined.
thermodynamics is a LAW because NOTHING can work outside of it. many theists disagree, because they say god is omnipotent AND omniscient. well, i can already tell the people who invented this only had half a brain.
you see, for a being to be both omnipotent and omniscient is contradictory. it is a fallacy. it is a paradox, all in itself.
lets assume god is both omnipotent and omniscient. now, lets say that because hes omniscient, he knows exactly how hes going to intervene to change the world into its final stage using his omnipotence. but wouldn't that mean god is unable to change the "future", which he FORSAW using his omniscience? in other words, he can't change his own actions? wouldn't that mean he's NOT omnipotent? so, what if he COULD change the "future" he forsaw. wouldn't that mean what he forsaw earlier was invalid, and therefore proving hes not omniscient.
in this sense, "god" can only be omniscient OR omnipotent. however, a being with only ONE of these qualities isn't even defined as a "god". so you are left with two options.
option one, assuming god is only omnipotent. This would mean he created everything, but has morals as valid as you or me. he cannot see the future, nor predict what we will do. he cannot see every little dark thought we have. this means, he has no control over us. if he did, we are just dolls, without a choice. so why not just go kill yourself now?
now, option two, assuming god is omniscient. this is even worse. this would mean he did not create the universe, and cannot defy laws of gravity, thermodynamics, and etc. in this sense, he wouldn't even be omniscient, since it goes against science and the laws. this would also mean he would have to be created AFTER the creation of the universe, which invalids his very creation, due to the laws.
so, since option 1 pretty much disables god's ability to direct the world or affect us with "faith", this either means god is waiting for a time to just come down and show his face, and admit he can't know a thing.
or, he created the universe and retired after that, just existing without a goal or point, all the way through eternity.
or, there is no god, and all this is talk about the almighty is bullshit.
now, abuot the part on the paradox of omnipotence and omniscience. don't give me the bullshit about how humans cannot understand a gods doing. that is the weakest arguement, with no merit or proof. there will always be beings that are smarter and can comprehend things you don't. i'm living proof of one. if i can't understand god, then neither can you, which contradicts religion itself, because it proves religion is made up bullshit. after all, since humans can't understand god apparently, you can't understand him any better than i. so don't talk, get some proof.
whats with all this religious stuff on here anyway? just do what you believe is the right thing? i don't care if you gay bi or straight i see all people from the same value, that is brotherhood and sisterhood
@: DJ_Karl
Amen brother
Hi all =D
I'm a Muslim. Many believe that muslims have something against christians. Nah..! I dont mind them. they are just living their lives and they are the closest reliegion to Islam. Only with a difference that they believe in three, where as we believe in only one.
True, their books might be wrong. But the first ever book given to them were correct!
And dear, you got some facts wrong. Moses [ peace be upon him ] never changed the sea into blood. True, with a touch of a staff he divided into two in order to make a path for them to escape the swords of the infidel pharaoh who Allah drowned later.
In reality every prophet taught the same religion. But the later generations twisted it. Only Islam remained protected since its the last of them. And its real faith will remain protected to those who seek it with true hearts. End of the world is approaching, living Islam is becoming tough. But the smell of heaven is closer! =D
True girl, ignorance is a scary thing.. save your self and just think about everything and Islam. You will find that they aren't that bad after all. =D
PS: i dare you to read the Quran/Koran and think!
and plus.. check this out. Stop questioning, and just think! http://www.beconvinced.com/
"I dont mind them. they are just living their lives and they are the closest reliegion to Islam."

so I guess you only mind the people who have a religion very different from Islam?
I totally agree, i feel that religion is for the weak minded. and as George Carlin said - Religion is bullsh1t.
@: Mimir2
very true
@: anubis
the truth is out there. tune in next week spidey fans
Okay, there is proof that the Bible is true retards, for example it talks about sodom and gamorra (sp). About a girl that God commanded not to look back at the city gamorra. Well she did it anyways. She then got turned into a pillar of salt. She was left like this for THOUSANDS of years. Recently, archaeologists made a discover in the middle east of a girl turning her head backwards made completely out of salt.

Also, millions of years?? Are you serious??
You've got to be kidding me. The Big Bang?? HAHA Don;t make me laugh. Honestly, what are the chances that a big explosion of chemicals made everything we are and everything that is and ever was. NOT LIKELY. I mean, for example, scientifically speaking, if the sun was 3 inches closer to us, we'd burn to death. However if it was 3 inches farther, we'd all freeze to death. Or how about the fact that every person is made unique. What are the chance that some big boom happened and made everything so perfect. I mean, I don't know about you idiots, but usually when i see chemicals explode, it usually causes a lot of destruction, not make things, much less things as perfect as humans, animals, plants, everything.

And evolution, hahahahahahahaha another lie. I will admit however small evolutions is visible, but not from tadpoles to humans. No. Not real. I mean if it is, why don't you see monkeys turning into humans now? You don't. As a matter of fact, on Darwin's deathbed, he admitted that darwinism or the evolution theory was a lie. He did it just to look smart in front of his peers.

Retard words=
1.Omniscient-having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.

2.Omnipotent-almighty or infinite in power

3.Omnipresent-present everywhere at the same time

Ok morons, what does that mean? It means God is not a human, he is not a spirit. He is a spiritual being. He's omniscient, he knows and understands everything. He's omnipotent, his power is limitless. And He's omnipresent, He's everywhere at all times. He is God. You just can't understand that because over the course of your entire lives, you are told what is and what isn't......HUMAN-wise. Humans cannot understand and know EVERYTHING. We do not have unlimited power. And we can't be everywhere at once.

So give up. He's there, and he's watching you, and one day when you're sitting at the gates of heaven hoping to get in, and you don't hear your name get called, you're gonna think, "I should have listened, and damn, it's getting hot."

Thanks.
I don't know what to believe anymore. I do know that I don't want to be part of any church that exists today. Religion is focused too much on homosexual agenda, and abortion, etc. The downfall started with Anita Bryant and it snowballed into hell. I do beleive in a God ,or a being that we cannot explain. I just don't beleive in the same God as Pat Robertson, or Jerry Falwell. I ve never seen so much robbery and hate in me life!!
im just going to make it simple. if what you say is true, that "god" cannot be understood than humans, then YOU can't either. if i can't understand it, YOU CAN'T EITHER. in other words, you are merely following a two thousand year old book written by HUMANS, who apparently CAN'T UNDERSTAND GOD. maybe evolution is something that requires more intellegence to understand too? maybe it's the same logic. you're too stupid to understand. i'm not. get it?
i already explained god's little omnipotence omniscience contradiction. read it idiot. here, ill even copy paste it for you:

lets assume god is both omnipotent and omniscient. now, lets say that because hes omniscient, he knows exactly how hes going to intervene to change the world into its final stage using his omnipotence. but wouldn't that mean god is unable to change the "future", which he FORSAW using his omniscience? in other words, he can't change his own actions? wouldn't that mean he's NOT omnipotent? so, what if he COULD change the "future" he forsaw. wouldn't that mean what he forsaw earlier was invalid, and therefore proving hes not omniscient.
in this sense, "god" can only be omniscient OR omnipotent. however, a being with only ONE of these qualities isn't even defined as a "god". so you are left with two options.
option one, assuming god is only omnipotent. This would mean he created everything, but has morals as valid as you or me. he cannot see the future, nor predict what we will do. he cannot see every little dark thought we have. this means, he has no control over us. if he did, we are just dolls, without a choice. so why not just go kill yourself now?
now, option two, assuming god is omniscient. this is even worse. this would mean he did not create the universe, and cannot defy laws of gravity, thermodynamics, and etc. in this sense, he wouldn't even be omniscient, since it goes against science and the laws. this would also mean he would have to be created AFTER the creation of the universe, which invalids his very creation, due to the laws.
so, since option 1 pretty much disables god's ability to direct the world or affect us with "faith", this either means god is waiting for a time to just come down and show his face, and admit he can't know a thing.
or, he created the universe and retired after that, just existing without a goal or point, all the way through eternity.
or, there is no god, and all this is talk about the almighty is bullsh*t.

you get that? this is called UNDERSTANDING "god's power". and about the bible having so called proof. tell me more about it. there's tons of prove discrediting the book written by retards. i don't see any that actually PROVE it. evolution has way more proof than that little book. dog breeding already proved evolution possible. we just acted to speed it up.
they have ALSO replicated the beginning of life in a lab. they used massive amounts of radiation and heat for months nonstop. and in the end, the created SINGLE CELLED ORGANISMS. that means god didn't create life.
im sure a narrow minded person like yourself would be wondering, WHO CREATED THE BIG BANG? well for starters, theres no proof saying that it was created in the first place. it's possible that it was always there. besides, creating energy is AGAINST THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS. don't know what it is? go check it out. don't give me shit about the laws being created by humans. without the laws of thermodynamics, we'd all be dead.
so lets say that the big bang was created somehow. what makes you so sure that it has to be a god? are you really that narrow minded? god isn't the default. gaps in history are not filled by god by default. keep an open mind, fool.
about proving the bible wrong, ill give yu a few ways right now. according to the bible, the universe was made 10000 years ago. no dinosaurs, no meteors, none of that. we have PROOF of fossils dating more than 10 million years before. how do we know how old a fossil is? carbon dating retard. unless you are blind, the dinosaur fossils are real. so why didn't the bible mention the dinosaurs? how did noah fit into a ship every species in the world, including dinosaurs? even if dinosaurs did not exist, noah would have to have travelled into north america to have all the species. and north america wasn't discovered until the 11th century by vikings.
doesn't that already disprove much of what the bible has to say? the old testament supported the ownership of women to men, killing of one's own children, and homosexuals, GOD'S OWN CREATION! that seem very much like a righteous god to you??
now, there's more. the DEVIL. if god is omnipotent, he can make the devil disappear and the world a perfect place with no downside, and make every being have faith in him, with a snap of a finger. why doesn't he do that? because he CAN'T? then he is not omnipotent.
now, the last contradiction for god that i will write today. there are alot more. pringletot2 can help me later, im too lazy today. consider the following:
you say that the world must be created. why? is it because all of us are so complicated? the position of the earth, all of that? it's just too magnicicent to happen by chance? well, for beginners, its not chance. ill explain anotehr day, im too lazy now. but ill just give you the advantage for now, and argue on the postulation that the world have to have been created by a greater being because it is too complicated and magnificent. well, a being who can create all this MUST be even more complicated and magnificent. that would mean "god" would ALSO have to have been created. so who created god? that being will also have to have been created, creating an infinite regress. instead, the big bang gets rid of that infinite regress. where did the big bang come from? we're not sure yet. however, we know there's an answer out there that does not involve the fallacies of a god, like i just showed you. remember, an unanswered question is not the same as a question answered by god. god is merely a false possibility out of many more unknown ones. since god is illogical and falliable, it is no longer even a possibility. if you are not satisfied by this, i will gladly post more. i have already contradicted the bible many times.
BUT, before i leave, i will tell you how the salt lady was made.
i have already proved the world to be more than just 10000 years old. now, fossils are basically imprints made of rock. there are different types of rock. one of them is SALT. there are countless salt rocks in the world, and eventually, one of them is bound to be reconizable as a "human being".
do you realize what you have just shown of yourself? you have shown that anything you do not know, you decide to blame god. how was the world created? gee, i can't answer that. why not just say god did it? i don't have to think too much to come to that conclusion.
ill get pringletot2 to come here and help you see light. when the person if stubborn, one is never enough. don't get me wrong, i can contradict everything you say to prove god. however, pringletot2 won't be very happy that i left him out of the action. what i have said today should already have proven to you that there IS NO GOD. if you still believe in that little falsehood called deity, then you are simply blind and stubborn, and no amount of truth will help you.
Ok well I think Wildchild has already explained it better than I can but still here goes.

I completely agree with Wildchild there are a lot of things that don't exactly make sense I mean for one us being here, no god would create us seriously we have destroyed this earth a lot quicker than any animal could hope for. If god's power was infinite then why does he let his own planet to be destroyed by us? Why is there the devil where god could easily destroy him? Why does he allow many people to believe in other gods or no god yet he could easily change our thought without us even knowing? Answer because there is no god, or even if there is a god he seems to enjoy watchin us kill ourselves and fuck other peoples lives up.

That salt statue thing ever thought that 1) it could just look like a person coincidentally or 2) it was a man-made sculpture and then it had that story placed around it, this happens a lot when theres a building or sculpture and noone knows who built it.

Ok I'll humor you, there is a god, because you know its perfectly logical that Noah could spend 100 years building an arc, and he lived up to 950 yrs old, I mean who couldn't believe that???? Well still why does the great all powerful god test us here? he knows the future he can tell whether we would be good or bad, he could easily enough split it up before we're even born. Then there's no second chances, you fuck up once your paying for it for eternity, then there's us torturing and murdering each other and he sits back and watches us but doesn't do anything, plus we enslave people, we still do btw it is not over yet, why would he allow us to do that? Man he's a very nice and peaceful god now isn't he? the only reason for us to pray to him is out of fear, and fear is the worst reason to worship someone. If you hadnt guessed I was being sarcastic thru quite a bit of this.

Who could believe that we originated millions and millions of years ago as a very basic form of life and just adapted to fit our environment over time, so retarded (sarcasm again, I thought I might need to tell you that) and when those scientists made that amino acid using the theory of what earths atmosphere was made up of in the beginning of the planet, just after the big bang, that was just god right? he wanted us to think that we culd make life so he did it for us and never took the credit right? oh he is so generous. Ok I'm going to stop being sarcastic now, as many of you probably think I was serious there, even though I said I was being sarcastic.

You probably didn't need to read the last 2 paragraphs I was more of just wittering on, but oh well, if your reading this u probably already read the others.

Well Ok, serious again. WE have proved that the earth is more than 10,000 years old, and if that is wrong what stops other parts of the bible and the word of god from being wrong. The big bang theory, well there could have been billions of big bangs and eventually one of them would hold give us the right stuff to support life, plus there are loads of planets throughout space take that stuff into consideration and it's not exactly surprising that there is life on at least 1 planet. In fact if there is too much gravitational pull of the universe it all collapses down back into one single dot, so small you can hold it in your hand, and then wat happens after that happens? you guessed it, another big bang, but this time all the atoms of everything are in a different order so the universe is completely different this time around. The universe might be perfect this time around and stop expanding while still being able to support life, it could have too little gravity pulling at the corners of the universe, which means it will expand so much that everything will be too far away from anything for there to be any light shone on earth, let alone there being enough heat for us not to freeze to death. Or there can be too much gravity pulling it down (as I mentioned above.)

If you think that the big bang just can't of come into existence on it's own then how did god come into existence on his own? and if god could then why can't the big bang have used all the gasses and shit to make the large expansion of the universe all by itself?

Anyway I hav to go now so I can't write any more, hopefully you understood most of what I was saying, I think I jumped around a lot there and didn't make much sense but I've never been good at writing.
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