[gcruse]

Whoa.....i would suggest that you rethink that at somoe point......like before you die.....

I'm not going to overthrow my own rationality
and dive into superstition out of
fear that an imaginary being will get me if I don't.
How you can do that amazes me.

[is_is]

How you can do that amazes me.

And your way of thinking amazes me.....your unwillingness to even explore the idea amazes me because it costs you an eternity in hell if your wrong.....Me....if i'm wrong, I end up where you do, where ever that is....no downside for me....but, sense i am right i get the upside, an eternity in heaven.

[elmer fudd]

Atheism really doesn't explain creation any more logically than any other religion. At some point in the distant past the universe sprang into being. It sounds more plausible to me that it was created by a higher being than that it just kind of spontaneously occurred. Same goes for the beginings of life. Even a single celled organism is quite complex and exceedingly unlikely to occur on it's own.

No theory adequately explains our origins unless you put some irrational faith in it, because no matter how you slice it things don't just pop into existence, but that obviously did happen. Twice.

[sayfer bullets]

I'm not going to overthrow my own rationality and dive into superstition out of fear that an imaginary being will get me if I don't. How you can do that amazes me.

While I doubt the "you better do it quick" was a serious attempt to actually persuade you, your premise is faulty.

There is nothing superstitious about it. That anyone would be out to "get you", again, is not a serious point on your part. "Superstition", and "imaginary" are used to characature your opposition.

Not that you are interested, but what you scoff at is a gift rather than something to be earned.

The reactions to people of faith in these "crevo" threads gives me the mental picture of a man who's walked unknowingly into an invisible spiderweb. He gesticulates violently against something that can hardly hurt him, and makes himself look like a goofball in the process.