What point is that...
IBTZ?
IBTZ... Sheesh. Lurk a little before you post.
I will pray for him.
But this answers one question and raises another. If Islam and Judeo/Christianity are diametrically opposed, why are both sides equally willing to die for their faiths?
I have an opinion but am interested to hear from others.
Has it ever occurred to anyone? No. Never before in history. You are the first. The world stands in awe of your genius.
Does it ever occur to anybody (irreligious) out there that maybe, just maybe, our “Holy Book” is true? Maybe it’s really a 2,000 (+/-) year old urban legend that is grounded in fact and history?
I’d be much better off believing in a non-existent God than “not believing” in a God that exists.
I pray some day he’ll get to feel God’s love in his heart.
Well, I'm an engineer too. And if this is the author's idea of religious intellectualism, it's no wonder he's an agnostic. Sad that his engineering mind has never encountered the statistical improbability of our existence.
ALL people of faith have (and should!) pondered whether their faith is bogus. Truth always leads to God; even through science and engineering.
Golly, does it ever occur to secularists out there that maybe, just maybe, their religion of metaphysical naturalism is a crock? Maybe it’s just a 200 year old urban legend gone horribly righteous and viral?
This is what comes of having an opinion not backed by anything.
Did he actually look into theology? Did he take the time to ponder what people have pondered since they walked upright?
No.
The thinking behind this is as shallow as a puddle in a parking lot. But more than that, it is just plain lazy.
That is the worst thing I can think of to call someone. But it is also a disease that is spreading because we don’t teach people to think anymore. We indoctrinate them with what to think, but not how to think. This is the result.
It is why people now say they are “spiritual”. Because it is easy. Because it doesn’t require thinking. Because it doesn’t require people to act.
The person isn’t an agnostic, he is a sloppy, lazy thinker.
I’m still trying to figure out how despairing it would be to go thru live believing there was nothing on the other side. Of course, if nothing is there, then it doesn’t matter, but it may matter greatly if there is something after life, especially God.
This will probably be my first IBTZ
The usual confetti of religion being equated to faith and grace being ignored in favor of intellect.
Sigh...
I guess the author either isn’t aware of, or has decided to ignore the fact that the Bible is the single most reviewed book on Planet Earth, and no one to date has been able to punch any kind of dent in it’s authenticity nor it’s historical accuracy. People have even tried to refute the stories in the Bible, such as the parting of the Red Sea, and Noah’s Ark with zero success. If the Bible is just an Urban Legend, when where’s the evidence?
A hatefilled, evangelical atheist, on the other hand, certainly might try to masquerade as an agnostic and write such a piece.
“Does it ever occur to anybody (religious) out there that maybe, just maybe, their “Holy Book” is a crock? Maybe it’s just a 2,000 (+/-) year old urban legend gone horribly righteous and viral?”
Yes it did occur to me. When I was sixteen. But I got over it after spending a year with Jean-Paul Sartre and his merry band of trailer-park-trash-existentialists.
Sorry to give you the bad news, but your at the level of the average 16 year old in your spiritual beliefs.
I can understand his point. But-—I have absolutely nothing to lose. He has everything to lose.
My advice to any agnostic, unless you are dealing with islamofascists who believe in killing nonbelievers, just live with the peaceful believers who at the most, will just pray for you. Worrying about “In God we trust”, or public crosses and Ten Commandment postings, is just plain silliness...