I was reading posts on my Face Book page, when I came across this gem, I did farmers markets with this lady. We were both local vendors. This is, unfortunately the mindset of my local populace.
*"Thought on this ( be nice) If your church preaches that Jesus was not born of a virgin, or the Red Sea did not part, that Jonah was not actually swallowed by a whale, or if your church recognizes homosexuals and lesbians as equals, and does not condemn it as sin, you had better get out. No one or nothing should be put ahead of God. There is no mediator between man and almighty god except Jesus."
This is what they have been told their whole lives and its hard to dissuade them from this robot thinking. However, if more people around her were willing to admit their secularism and show her that we are not the evil people she may think we are. The only real change comes from experience and meeting others with a different mindset can be a part of her experience.
An you claim to be an atheist? What evidence do you have for a god or jesus?
Misstuffy was showing us what someone in her area put on Facebook to give us an idea of the people she has around her. It is not her own personal view. At least that is what i took from what I read.
I am not the one making those claims. Go back and read the post. the part about God and Jesus was from the lady I was at the farmers markets with, NOT ME!
@xenoview hey, you don't have to answer my questions if you don't want to
but we do have the testimony of witnesses whose veracity was unquestionable at the time
not that i take their testimony literally anyway
and no, i have no “evidence” that there is a God, but then i don’t believe that Yah “exists” anyway; you “exist,” right, and i exist.
What is the “objective evidence” for our existence?
I might ask, of someone who actually replied to questions
@misstuffy “The lack of real provable evidence for a god leads one to conclude there is no God”
well wadr (with all due respect) that is a pretty dangerous stance; the lack of real provable evidence for black swans led others to the same conclusions about them? “Absence of evidence is not…” etcetc
Although that is just the standard argument, and i don’t ascribe to it much; im more interested in “does something have to exist to be real?” these days…
“The claims made that all one has to do is ask for something and it will be given, has been proven a lie over and over and over”
hmm, never contemplated that angle, and a search of the sentence returns gibberish, so i did some other phrases and discovered that what you say is true, but so is the opposite. Im minded that we are talking about esoteric things, immaterial things, that we might ask for, while many prolly attempt to gain physical items via that path…which i guess can also be done, if the whole passage is regarded? Iow you can almost surely get anything, even material, if you seek it hard enough/long enough?
beware of things that are “proven” imo
ntmy btw
So, Gnostics misunderstand pretty obvious allusions, and make definitive, absolute statements concerning them, but you might see how this is to your benefit?
People like this post really stupid, annoying shit. Then they stand back, read it and pronounce it as some kind of Powerful Wisdom. Because they can
Those people have been eating too many Dunning Kruger pills.
Gave up on those types years ago - very little hope.
oh, don’t most religious ppl mature out of that? Over 50% anyway? I haven’t kept track there, but seems to me
@bbyrd009 One of my favorite arguments as a child was if God created us, then WHO created God? They cannot answer it because they insist we could not exist without a God to create us, I say the same argument holds true for their God as well, that someone else created him, and someone them and on down the line, the endless line
A gnostic mind, who can change it?