Atheists are those who have no clue about God or the Bible - and they cannot see the universe as a created place. Normally, no matter how much evidence we can present, they will reject it. This is because those without the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) cannot possibly understand the things of God....
We could go on arguing with atheists ad nauseum, but the bottom line is: "Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still." Whether or not they realize it, they serve satan.
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Translation: "Stop asking for evidence we don't have." They like to go on and on about all the evidence they could give us yet they either never actually give us any or give us the most laughably flimsy material possible. Lots of tripe about feelings backed by "what ifs" and scientific discoveries read so incredibly incorrectly that you're sometimes left wondering if the evidence and their conclusions regarding it are pages from two separate, completely unrelated items.
++"This is because those without the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) cannot possibly understand the things of God.... "
What, so it's god's fault? Then why the hell are you going after us for it? Apparently he made us this way on purpose. Seems like attacking his creations like that would be a terrible sin...
++"Whether or not they realize it, they serve satan."
Nice try (that's a lie) but I don't serve anyone save myself, my family and my boss. Although I will concede that the Satan we're so often told about looks to be a far more personable and enlightened master than yours so if I absolutely had to choose...
Atheists are those who have actualy read the bible, and cross referenced it to try to make sense of it - and we can see the universe as an organic whole that formed by natural processes. Normaly we will gladly consider any and all evidence that you present, and carefuly compare it against all the other evidence. This is because we have the Kumu baLachmacht (common sense) to actualy examine the univesr around us.
You can try to feed us your unsupported claims and cryptic threats ad nauseum, but the bottom line is that untill you have evidence for a god existing, we will not be impressed. Whether you accept it or not, we still do not serve Satan.
This atheist grew up in a country with a state church and had Christian/Religion lessons each week in school during all of my school years. I learned the Christmas Gospel by heart, and during my first three school years we sang a psalm at the beginning of each day and a short thank-you-hymn at the end of every day. That's how poor a clue I have about "God or the Bible".
We're the one with the evidence that it's not created, and you're the one who reject it.
You can't even provide tangible, measurable evidence for the existence of God.
You're the ones who are "convinced against their will and are of the same opinion still", silly. We have come to our conviction of our own accord, while you were probably taught to be Christian from birth.
Maybe the universe was created, but until one of you goofballs comes up with some real proof (and not bible quotes, suppositions and guesses), I'll stick to what we do have proof for.
Yeah! That's true! But at least we still have our sanity. Maybe?
"This is because those without the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) cannot possibly understand the things of God...."
Could this be why fundies deny us the secret compelling evidence for Bible God's existence? They think we couldn't possibly understand it? LOL!
"We could go on arguing with atheists ad nauseum,"
"Could?"
"Whether or not they realize it, they serve satan."
Those who are not members of our cult are EEEEVIL!
Um, Carmen, you shouldn't be throwing around Jewish terms if you don't understand that the Jewish idea of Satan differs somewhat from the Christian one. You see, in Judaism Satan is a servant of God that makes life difficult and acts as prosecutor at the last judgement, not the enemy of God as he is in Christianity. In Judaism, if someone is a servant of Satan he is, indirectly, doing God's work. There's not much point in pretending to be a Messianic Jew - as we can see from your earlier quotes on FSTDT - if you don't know much about Judaism first.
As for atheists not having a clue about God or the Bible: a) an atheist is not the same as an ignoramus; b) as we see with you and so many others, there are a great many fundies who have little knowledge of the Bible or their own religion; and c) you might like to repeat that to one of my friends who's an atheist - she's a professor of religious philosophy.
Another asshole theist claiming to be able to read minds, somehow knowing what we have no clue about, what we cannot see, what we will reject, and what we cannot possibly understand.
Back in the day, claiming to be able thread minds would result in your being burned at the stake.
Sounds like a bunch of demonization -attacking potential buyers for not purchasing your product.
Peddle your wares someplace else.
And you clearly define "evidence" much differently than the rest of humanity.
If those w/o your precious decoder ring (i.e. the Holy Spirit) aren't reachable, then why the fuck do you even try?
"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
That is some truly bizarre parsing. Regardless, just because one doesn't serve your particular version of God doesn't mean they serve Satan. That's like saying everyone that doesn't like Republicans are slaves of Democrats.
"If you're not for us, you're against us." is a statement made by a madman or someone too far up their own ass to see the light of day.
Theists are those who have no clue about observable reality - they cannot see the universe as something that can be observed and understood. Normally no matter how much evidence we can present, they will reject it. They think everything is secretly run by invisible spooks.
We could go on arguing with theists ad nauseum, but the bottom line is: "Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still." Whether or not they have degrees, they are idiots.
"Whether or not they realize it, they serve satan."
Well, he is a great tipper.
Actually, I seem to remember that most surveys show that atheists know more about religion than anyone else.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that social conservatives in general, and fundies in particular, simply do not have the sophistication to understand the weaknesses in their positions that are so obvious to others.
Now, what do I mean by "sophistication?" I believe that "sophistication" is a combination of intelligence, education and experience that broadens our outlook and allows us to recognize the implications of things that we may not have been aware of previously.
Sophisticated people know what it means to have both "eureka" and "oh shit" moments and have usually had at least one thing they "knew" to be absolutely true proven wrong.
My father was raised by Southern Baptists. So he would know of god and bible. Hell properly read the bible is the most potent form for atheism. Isaac Asimov. And you say they serve satan. Which is hard to do when they don't even believe in him. Fundie Christians do a far better job of worshipping satan. They chase people from their religion which satan is supposedly trying to do, they often make god seem the bad guy while satan seems to be good guy by the crap they spew.
So apparently, atheists don't have a soul. WOW.
Oh wait, it's Carmen from the Refiner's Fire. I still don't know if you're a Jew or not, but if you are, you're doing a horrible job.
Since Carmen co-opts Hebrew to describe an element of Christian theology, it's clear she's trying to pass herself off as part of a community that will have no part of her.
Nevertheless, I must go with the Hebrew and cite the corresponding Jewish beliefs about Satan (the Accuser) and follow them to their logical conclusion (which is obviously not what the religion teaches).
Jews believe Satan is an angel, basically Biblegod's prosecuting attorney who on the day of judgment presents a record of all the failures of the deceased person to live up to the Torah, i.e. makes accusations! Satan is a creation of Biblegod, near and dear to his heart. Thus, if atheists serve Satan, by Carmen's logic, we serve a messenger of Biblegod. Shouldn't she be happy about that?
What evidence is there for creation other than you guys squawking "it's self-evident!" It's not self-evident at all. If the universe was created it should make a hell of a lot more sense than it does. Why would a god make so many barren planets? Why use a sun to heat the Earth instead of just magicking a permanent heat and light source that doesn't fluctuate? Why create ecosystems that, when altered, destroy entire populations of living creatures?
Why are there birth defects? Seriously.
"Normally, no matter how much evidence we can present, they will reject it."
What evidence is that, exactly, which established the universe to be "a created place"?
Be specific.
“Atheists are those who have no clue about God or the Bible”
What about Jove? Ra? Minerva? Aphrodite? Venus? Ishtar?
Early Christains were called atheists for not worshiping the gods of Rome. Was this some sort of function of ignorance for them, too?
"and they cannot see the universe as a created place.”
I don’t. can’t say that i cannot, i just haven’t seen evidence that compells.
"Normally, no matter how much evidence we can present, they will reject it.”
Usually because either
1) It’s only ‘evidence’ that YOU believe in a creator
2) IFF it’s evidence of a creator, only you can connect it to a specific god rather than any other of the creator gods.
"This is because those without the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) cannot possibly understand the things of God....”
Okay. Meanwhile, I’m over here looking at the geologic column and the total lack of signs of the global flood…
“We could go on arguing with atheists ad nauseum, but the bottom line is: "Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."”
Ah. it’s not YOUR fault that your evidence and arguments and lies fail to convince, it’s my natural immunity to the bullshit. Got it.
“Whether or not they realize it, they serve satan.”
So, seeking objective evidence is satanic. Got it.
Confused?
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