Funny anti-religious Internet pics

[Kulindahr]

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Or you fail to understand him because of yours? Just a thought.

My brother the budding mathematician dismissed Epicurus' "argument" as shallow merely on the basis of math*, as a junior in high school. I'd say that makes the "argument" literally sophomoric.










* it relies on assumptions of limited dimensionality as well as mechanicity

 

[Kulindahr]

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That is very funny. Going to laugh tea out my nose.

I'm trying to think of religions without evidence, though. Mormonism qualifies, I think, and probably Buddhism and Christian Science. Islam is arguable, since it rests on the Old Testament; if it is, then so is Judaism.

Mostly it's self-congratulatory for people who have their own faith but pretend they don't.

 

[belamyi]

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My brother the budding mathematician dismissed Epicurus' "argument" as shallow merely on the basis of math*, as a junior in high school. I'd say that makes the "argument" literally sophomoric.










* it relies on assumptions of limited dimensionality as well as mechanicity

More excellent evidence. "My brother says..."

Oh shut up you two: the pathetic in Kul's case is that he needed a junior brother to think one of the several reasons in front of our noses, and in Crash's case, that he dismisses an argument with some ad hominem one.

 

[belamyi]

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I'm trying to think of religions without evidence, though. Mormonism qualifies, I think, and probably Buddhism and Christian Science. Islam is arguable, since it rests on the Old Testament; if it is, then so is Judaism.

Mostly it's self-congratulatory for people who have their own faith but pretend they don't.

The problem with that one is that it messes up mere eschatological faith, which is the ultimate point of religion, with all the entangled mess of petty fairytale superstitious rules for daily living.

 

[belamyi]

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I agree. I was too lazy to crop it out. Mi scusi, mi scusi.

You are being ironic, right..?

You did not have to excuse yourself because the last comment in the pic you posted is precisely what made it all the more meaningful.

 

[Kulindahr]

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[Kulindahr]

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[looseliam]

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^ the great part is some don't correlate the silliness of that statement with the statements found elsewhere in their respective religious texts. Sometimes I most enjoy the deer-in-the-headlight stare when some don't 'get it'.

I think it would have been more amusing had it read "where's the long form birth certificate?"

 

[Kulindahr]

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^ the great part is some don't correlate the silliness of that statement with the statements found elsewhere in their respective religious texts. Sometimes I most enjoy the deer-in-the-headlight stare when some don't 'get it'.

I'm not aware of any texts that has any relationship to in the texts. But I've been to some young-earths creationist "lectures", and that is quite representative of the sort of "science" in some of those.

 

[bort138]

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I'm not aware of any texts that has any relationship to in the texts. But I've been to some young-earths creationist "lectures", and that is quite representative of the sort of "science" in some of those.

If your religion and belief in god had any empirical evidence in its favor that would hold up in a court of law it wouldn't need to be kept alive by the faith of you and other ignorant people detaching themselves from reality.

 

[Kulindahr]

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If your religion and belief in god had any empirical evidence in its favor that would hold up in a court of law it wouldn't need to be kept alive by the faith of you and other ignorant people detaching themselves from reality.

The Resurrection of Jesus has been tried on the basis of the laws of several nations and judged true, on the basis of standard rules of evidence.

The people claiming there is "no evidence" are taking a stance of the kind of faith they accuse Christians of having: with no evidence. There is no evidence at all that science is the only way to know things, yet that is what all these people who claim to respect science are asserting.

 

[bort138]

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The Resurrection of Jesus has been tried on the basis of the laws of several nations and judged true, on the basis of standard rules of evidence.

The people claiming there is "no evidence" are taking a stance of the kind of faith they accuse Christians of having: with no evidence. There is no evidence at all that science is the only way to know things, yet that is what all these people who claim to respect science are asserting.

Nice try but that frame of reasoning would never hold up in court. What evidence was there that was presented in these nations' court cases you talk about?

 

[bankside]

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The Resurrection of Jesus has been tried on the basis of the laws of several nations and judged true, on the basis of standard rules of evidence.

The people claiming there is "no evidence" are taking a stance of the kind of faith they accuse Christians of having: with no evidence. There is no evidence at all that science is the only way to know things, yet that is what all these people who claim to respect science are asserting.

There is no piece of knowledge to which science and its methods cannot reconcile itself.

That statement only needs one durable counterexample to fall, yet I suspect it will not.

And I am bemused to see old-school theology huddling next to 19th and 20th century sociologists and their deconstructivist anti-rationalist post-modernist fanciful notions of epistemology.

 

[looseliam]

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[Kulindahr]

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Nice try but that frame of reasoning would never hold up in court. What evidence was there that was presented in these nations' court cases you talk about?

The Gospel accounts, fulfilled prophecy, and the testimony of those who knew the apostles, primarily. There was a French jurist, a panel of English jurists, and a "trial" held in the U.S. with a jury. (I'm beginning to hate living in two places; my notes on the specifics of those are in storage two hours from here.)

 

[bankside]

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The Gospel accounts, fulfilled prophecy, and the testimony of those who knew the apostles, primarily. There was a French jurist, a panel of English jurists, and a "trial" held in the U.S. with a jury. (I'm beginning to hate living in two places; my notes on the specifics of those are in storage two hours from here.)

scopes monkey trial

 

[Kulindahr]

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time for a pic..

Maybe it's a unique grain elevator.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Another one making the author look stupid.

Faith can't "prove anything". The most it can do is speculate on the basis of the evidence given.

 

[bort138]

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kuli, trying to defend your personal religious beliefs in a thread making fun of the irrationality of religion makes you look pretty stupid. just saying.

 

[Kulindahr]

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Yes, because a body going missing is proof it came back to life and floated up to Heaven.

This here is a perfect example of why you can never have a logical conversation with a Christian on the matter of faith vs. evidence.

Of course not -- that would be like having one about hypothesis vs. data.