IRONY -- An atheist juggling fire.
Posted on 11/27/2005 6:32:15 AM PST by machman
That's not exactly true. Penn and Teller don't want you to believe what you see on stage is real. They want you to leave never understanding how they did it, which isn't the same thing. They're very up front that it's all illusion and trickery. No real deception on that level at all.
Yes, true. But at least we will have a transcendent system whereby to say, "this is wrong, this is unjust, this is evil" not just because I say so but because the One who created the world says so. We have the means to resist popular or tyrannical will because we know the will of the One who created all things.
What are you trying to say? That you should not expose yourself to different cultures and ideas?
Or quoting his holy book to prove that his god was god, or in this case, to prove there is none. One might as well prove the truth of Communism by quoting Marx.
It is not selling anyone on Christianity to claim this man is a chump or liberal. He's a fine magician and possibly one of the best advocates of skeptical thought and logic today. If that doesn't make him an advocate for limited government, I don't know what does. This is, after all, a man who co-hosts the program 'Bullshit!' and used that bully pulpit to demolish PETA. He used it to tear apart the false god of recycling. And he used it to savage the fools that be in environmentalist causes.
Those who can't see that calling someone "chump" or "idiot," or falsely tagging them as a liberal isn't Christian, I pity ,for their empty, false claims expose their inability to even approach practicing what they preach.
I've noticed over the years that those (such as the author of this article) who feel it necessary to run around spewing their athiest beliefs have 2 issues-
1. Most often, they really believe in God but are VERY ANGRY at God, usually due to the tragic death of a loved one, or
2. They CRAVE attention.
Most of the REAL athiests in the world just want to be left alone.
For what it's worth, they've never claimed they can heal the sick if you just send them a check.
History tells me that you are living an illusion. If you think that removing a transcendant source for right or wrong is going to settle the world's disputes, you are living in la-la land.
Reminds me of the South Park episode where a bus unloads its cargo of souls in hell and the people protest that they were "insert religion here" only to be told sorry that was the wrong religion.
Too funny, That's a good one ... Do you also you think that Christians are the most 'Intolerant' of them all?
Here's a news flash for you: he's more on the political right than left. And he's had plenty of good things to say about America.
That was reshown last week; everyone newly arrived in Hell was at an "Orientation" session and a bunch of them complained "I was a devout Catholic, why am I here? "I was a devout Buddhist, why am I here?" etc....so they finally asked who was right, and the orientation leader said "The Mormons, the Mormons were right." And then they cut to Heaven filled with a bunch of Mormons in ties...hilarious.
I believe that God has infinite understanding, patience and compassion, and that He loves us all, no matter how arrogant we may be. But God is not mocked, and I'm not sure how He will deal with being willfully denied, especially in the presence of so much evidence to the contrary, which anyone can see did not just ooze out of some random weather event.
As a former atheist, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're trying to ascribe a particular motive to atheists, for reasons I do not know, but the agenda to assign the motive is clear.
IRONY -- An atheist juggling fire.
And the fool hath said, "let's use a 2,000 year old nomadic philosophy in the 21st century!"
Well, I'm unaware of Penn ever being seriously injured in a trick (he may have but obviously it can't have been that bad) and they do a ton of dangerious stuff.
My brone-age beliefs are better than *your* iron-age beliefs!
Stating this on Nation Public Radio is no surprise, it's the opinion of the majority of its listeners. If someone of faith was given serious time on NPR, then I would be surprised.
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