He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers
History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanishe
So you really think that God would plant a bunch of bones in the earth to test your faith? Either you're in denial or God has some serious self-esteem issues. If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going? The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Pray to God, fine; but keep rowing to shore. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here. "If god doesn't like the way I live, Let him tell me, not you."
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. "There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse
But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers were given. Satan - 10 Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence
Doesn't it bother you that you put more logical thought into choosing a car than you do in choosing a god? To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.