Take what comfort you can in the fact that you are not alone in your view of the Godhead.
Posted on 06/05/2008 7:57:03 AM PDT by Between the Lines
Take what comfort you can in the fact that you are not alone in your view of the Godhead.
Do you think that love exists? If so, what's the scientific evidence for it?
Well, “atheist” and “agnostic” at least have the benefit of being honest descriptions of what their bearers actually do, or rather, don’t. I find “skeptic”, “rationalist”, and “freethinker” (oh, yeah, and “reality-based”) amusing in their irony. And “bright” is too silly to take seriously.
Absolutely, but you’ll never get an entire country on the same bandwagon.
I’m sure even under the most God-fearing circumstances, there were some idiot tribal Israelites who decided that some other random pagan god was better to worship.
The Fascists’ “religion” was installing the state as the “deity” of the people.
The atheists of the 20th century sought truth solely in “reason”. We see what that got us, as you mentioned, hundreds of millions dead, because “reason” dictates that a better society can be created by forcing it on the people from the top down.
And what’s a few hundred million dead if those entities are only going to exist for about 60-70 years anyway?
What assumption do you start from then?
but, we don’t automatically exclude the possibility then try to make all theories fit it, like the “yo yo universe” theory proposed to exclude the evidence of a beginning of the universe.
Science freely admits that it doesn't know how the universe began. All we really know is that the Universe is expanding and that implies a beginning. A hundred years ago Scientists thought that the Universe was static.
Atheists limit their discovery to the material in order to avoid the consequences of the possibility of a Creator.
Actually they don't. QM is based on waves of nothing, it is the most accurate theory that we have and it may explain the origins of the Universe.
Science is based on testable theories. Religion is testable too, but it fails all the tests.
How sad for so many to believe in nothing greater than themselves.
Anyhoo... "target a disliked religon"... check! "kill 'em if they don't get out of Dodge fast enough"... check! Yep, the correspondences track perfectly.
Soliton is not trying to put anything over on anyone with his statement. He was, it seems to me, explaining his worldview.
Do you not start also with an assumption, and from that assumption claim that your worldview is true?
Love is an emotion controlled by hormones. The right chemicals and you will love anyone or anything.
That’s not my question. I said “how do you know that it exists?” Prove to me that it exists.
I should also note that I think you’re describing something more akin to lust or attraction, not love.
Dang... would be funny if it were not so horribly sad.
jw
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