OT Happy Easter

[sweet sawdust]

Happy Easter

[Dave]

It's a very good feeling to know that we too can have eternal life too, by trusting and believing in the Lord.

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[Dave Balderstone]

To paraphrase Terry Pratchett:

God made us clever enough to eventually work out that He doesn't exist.

Enjoy your chocolate!

[Larry Blanchard]

It may well be a good feeling, but that doesn't mean that it's true :-).

And a fabulous fertility festival to you.

[dse]

Nor does it mean that it's NOT true.

Give it a rest - for one day, please?

[dse]

Maybe Pratchett will work himself out of his own Alzheimer's, eh?

[Dave Balderstone]

Saying something like that doesn't sound very Christian to me.

Proud of yourself?

[dse]

Always

[Dave Balderstone]

The seventh of the Seven Deadly Sins. You may want to reconsider your ways.

[Robatoy]

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Nowhere in the Bible is there such a list of seven deadly sins. Some monk dreamt those up out of whole cloth.

[Larry Blanchard]

Another good Christian who loves his neighbor, I see.

I have trouble imagining anyone making that kind of a remark about early onset Alzheimers in anyone, let alone someone whose satirical writings are in a class by themselves. If there is by chance a deity, or multiples thereof, you're in a heap of trouble.

[Dave]

We are all in a heap of trouble the way things are going in this world today. That's why we have got to put our trust in God. No one is perfect except Jesus. There is not a perfect church on this earth. If there is, the minute I or you walk into its doors the church is no longer perfect. That's why we must go there to learn how to better our lives.

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[Est.R.Buns]

OK, let me guess, you read about this stuff in a book? Am I right?

[Dave Balderstone]

What an amazing paragraph. Complete nonsense, but amazing nonetheless.

So rather than human beings trying to fix what human beings have done, we should all go to various buildings and let other human beings tell us how something that isn't a human being, and that there's no proof even exists, can tell us how to fix the mess human beings created because a bunch of human beings believe something a bunch of other human beings wrote down thousands of years ago, but they can't agree on what it means, exactly, but they know it's true because, well, it just is so stop arguing with them or you'll be called all kinds of bad names and possibly killed?

And that's turned out well over the past umpteen thousand years exactly how?

One of the clinical signs of insanity it doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result each time.

I think religion qualifies as insane by that definition.

[Dave]

I will no longer comment on this subject because folks like Balderstone, Burns, et al, are an insult to ones intelligence so I will no longer comment or read posts on this subject. The folks who always negatively post negative comments about religion must live very troubled lives and blame everything on God for their misfortunes.

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[Larry Blanchard]

Chuckle. Another example of religious logic. How can I blame a god for any misfortunes I might have when I don't think any such exists?

And you think the posts by myself and other skeptics are insulting to your intelligence? Naah, I won't say it.

And we post these "negative" comments in the (possibly forlorn) hope that someday, someone, somewhere, will see them and rethink their addisction to an unproven belief. IOW, we're missionaries, but we don't insist you wear clothes :-).

[Robatoy]

At the same time, everybody has the right to their beliefs and express their beliefs], just as you have the right to express, albeit wrong, your beliefs.

[Tim Daneliuk]

You kids keep pickin' on one another but I must point something out:

*All* systems of knowledge - including reason itself - hinge upon at least one, and often many "unproven beliefs". If that's you're only objection to religion you are on very thin ice.

[Dave Balderstone]

That's how you know it's there!

[HeyBub]

That's not so. Most of the people in the world do NOT have a right to believe or express whatever they wish.