I find it hilarious the number of people on this INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD that consider themselves highly intellectual. For instance, they quote other people's theories like it's their own personal religion, and they throw Latin phrases around like they're going out of style (They are, by the way. Take note.)
I'm going to take a guess here and say that you're the kind of person who demands that followers of science need to do their own experiments and whatnot before they can say anything. If that's the case, allow me to point you toward the 2,000-year-old book that you blindly follow.
I actually had someone on here tell me that evolution was the correct theory and that "a theory is something that is generally regarded as fact".
Well, close. A theory is basically the most accurate explanation of observable facts. It can be tested, and it can be used to make predictions.
Oh really? Because creationism and evolutionism are both THEORIES.
See, no, creationism is not a theory. It looks at the facts, disregards them, and creates some bullshit explanation that is incapable of putting forth any predictions. It is what we would call a "hypothesis," but even that is a gross application of the term. It isn't even an educated guess, because it takes absolutely no research or observation to look up at the sky and say "God did it."
Both Christian and evolutionist tools are warring on a stupid web site about something that only affects them after they die.
Actually, nothing affects us after we die, because we are not pining. We have passed on. We are no more. We have ceased to be.
(It actually affects Christians in the present, but we'll let the atheists think it's all "equal", because they all want equal rights for everyone anyway.)
You heard it here, folks: an admittance that Christians do not want everyone to be treated equally. Of course, we all knew that already, but at least this one is coming to terms with being an arrogant bigot.
Live your life, believe what you want to, but I'm going to cover all bases by believing in Christianity.
Pascal's Wager is a shitty reason for believing in God. Don't you think your omniscient deity would know that you were simply hedging your bets?
If I get up to heaven and Allah is up there waving a stick, well I better hope he's merciful or else I'm SOL. But I might as well believe in something just so I can cover all bases.
No, you'd be screwed just like every other non-Muslim if that were the case. It wouldn't matter which god you believed in if it weren't Allah. Remember: gods are very, very jealous creatures.
If there isn't a God (there is), then it doesn't really matter what I believe.
Actually, it still does. For one, you could accept that there is no God and stop trying to please a bipolar, tantrum-throwing, genocide-committing invisible being who doesn't even exist. You could save yourself time and energy that could be used for a much more worthy cause.
The fact that atheists have no comprehension of an afterlife (and the fact that the absence of such doesn't disturb them) is proof that they waste the time they have on Earth by squandering it looking to prove evolution is real.
There is absolutely no connection between the two things you have just mentioned. Rather, it is Christians who squander their time on Earth because they feel it does not matter when compared to the possibility of eternity in Heaven.
Get off your self righteous f ucking high horse and let people believe what they want to.
Take your own advice.
People on this board point to the Crusades as horrible because "religion killed so many people", but so did Hitler. So did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. So did Nero.
You did not just compare the Columbine shootings to the Holocaust. The school shooting was a tragedy, to be sure, but it in no way compares to the 6,000,000-person genocide committed by Hitler and his followers (who, by the way, were Christians). Do not compare religiously-motivated massacres to a school shooting, especially one that was twisted and grossly misrepresented by media reports.
The point to all of this is, I see a lot of the same people proving/disproving (whatever you want to believe) their various theories, but really it doesn't do anyone any good to argue about such things.
Then what was the point of your long post?
Christianity is more progressive than atheism because we don't want to/have to prove jack. We BELIEVE. That's all that is necessary.
You cannot possibly call yourself progressive when you admit that you are content to accept a single explanation for everything that ever happens. If you aren't willing to look for new answers or new ways of thinking, then you most certainly are not progressive. In fact, you are holding us back.
Meanwhile, everyone else comes up with pointless information.
I have a couple of books filled with "pointless information" in my apartment. Well, if you want to get technical, they're the same book, just different versions.
Well, have fun, because I'd rather sit in church than in front of a microscope with some 80 pound atheist that needs 300 SPF.
Way to give credibility to your and your argument by throwing in a joke about pale-skinned lightweights. I may be pale, but I'm a good 180 lbs after dinner, and I'm more comfortable reading a book than peering into a microscope, but even then I know far more about science (and your religion, most likely) than you seem to.
