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Re: Funny anti-religious Internet pics
Just for the pleasure of hearing someone else debate those points, I'm going to do it.
Reasons:
Not reasons:
All pretty accurate.
Just for the pleasure of hearing someone else debate those points, I'm going to do it.
Reasons:
- "That depends what you call evidence." Weak, I know but I'm trying.
- "The origins of the universe are shrouded in the big bang - a singularity beyond which physics cannot make any evaluation by the very definition of the word "singularity. Therefor the gospels explain it."
- "Yes, but that's just the origins of life. What about the preconditions that made those origins possible?"
- This one I legitimately think overstates the case. Religion definitely makes claims that can be proven false, but that does not mean all of them have been proven false. I think they have all been proven ridiculously improbable, but that's a bit different. Also, neuroscience is exploring questions about consciousness and the field seems to be finding materialist solutions fit the bill, but I wouldn't yet say it is proven. Oh, and "God regrows those limbs in heaven. He says you don't need them now."
- "Killing all those babies was just God's way of helping people learn a lesson about morality, and they needed a strong lesson."
- "They weren't ready yet."
- "Well that's exactly why it has to be a miracle we're here!"
- "They were only divinely inspired. The editing and publishing was left up to humans and you know how fallible they are." or "It's actually an adult learning technique. If you just spell it all out in a very dry powerpoint, no one would pay attention. You have to work the content into a fun activity like a crossword puzzle, or a word search, or a morass of crazy self-contradictory mumbo jumbo in incoherently overlapping tracts that people really have to puzzle through before they get the idea. If Jeopardy was around, God could have used "buy a vowel" to help people remember the 10 Commandments."
- "Yabbut yabbut yabbut, this one is true! Plus, all those other religions PROVE that people have a spiritual intuition, even if they are godless heathens who picked the wrong book to follow and only insult the One True God™ with their inane rantings about other fake gods. But still it kind of proves religion even though all those other heathens are going to hell. And going to hell proves religion too, so QED."
- "God can suspend all the laws of physics anyway so causality and the nature of time are just trifling details. He invented causality and the nature of time so he can just repeal those laws whenever he feels like it. Same way we can repeal murder laws or anti-slavery laws. It doesn't really matter what the law says if you're the one who can write it."
Not reasons:
All pretty accurate.
