16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
5:42 a.m.
On 15 June 2011 19:39, Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
I believe in God because saying "Nobody Dammit!" sounds dumb.
It does? Why? And do you seriously think "a magic sky-fairy did it and
ran away" is /less/ dumb?
I always liked this definition of christianity:
The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make
you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically
tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force
Most of the time I spend time trying to
understand why an otherwise intelligent person could come to such unsupported conclusions
about some things. It's as if their logical thinking breaks down, and is no longer
around when faith steps into the room.
That's exactly how I feel about "God". ?I cannot grasp why otherwise
intelligent, rational people -- especially techies -- suspend their common sense to
believe in an invisible man in the sky.
I welcome a debate with anyone here who claims that believing in god(s) is somehow
"different". from your soul that is present in humanity because a
rib-woman was
convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
--
Liam Proven ? Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven
Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com
Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419
AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508