Potus ???

[the village idiot]

It's seems to me that a few of the "science has buried God" camp on here are writing cheques that current scientific knowledge just cannot cash.

No-one has been able to re-create "life"

No one has ever been able to create "something" out of nothing.

I can fully understand that people don't want to believe in a creative intelligence (even though they possess a form of one themselves).

I can also understand why people do want to put their faith in a creator.

Throwing insults about gets us nowhere.

I have friends that are atheists, I have friends that are Christian, Muslim, Seikh etc. I also have friends that are Gay. Republican and Liberal (not at the same time)

Christianity as I understand and study it tells me I should love my neighbour.

 

Common decency and humanitarianism tells exactly the same thing. Picking and choosing your morals from very eclectic divine commandments is a dangerous path IMO.

 

The 10 commandments for example could be dramatically improved upon by any mildly competent individual. The first 4 of the most important list of moral values are used up to boost God's already grossly inflated ego.

 

Why is an all powerful one true God so bloomin insecure?

[wrsni]

I think it's quite easy to believe in a God and have faith

 

No it's not, it's not easy at all. And it's becoming more and more difficult as the path of the Lord becomes increasingly divergent from contemporary society and the world around us.

[TIMON]

If God does exist and he is just, righteous and perfect then surely he would punish wrongdoing.

If someone killed your children and the killer went before a judge, wouldn't you expect the judge to punish the perpetrator?

[Mull]

Its a fairly tall order to create life but when they do what will that mean to you? BTW when I mean life I do mean the basics of life as it took 4 billion years to get from that to us.

 

 

 

Something is being created out of nothing constantly, you just have to look at quantum physics.

 

 

 

Without trying to be condescending I think it's quite easy to believe in a God and have faith as I agree the opposite can be quite scary. To each their own but then where's the fun on agreeing to disagree.

 

 

Do you or have you ever believed in god?

[Vespasian]

No it's not, it's not easy at all. And it's becoming more and more difficult as the path of the Lord becomes increasingly divergent from contemporary society and the world around us.

 

If its hard then why not come over to our side, make your life easier all round..

Come on WRSNI, come on over to the dark side:thumbup1:

[the village idiot]

If God does exist and he is just, righteous and perfect then surely he would punish wrongdoing.

If someone killed your children and the killer went before a judge, wouldn't you expect the judge to punish the perpetrator?

 

Ti, you've gone all jomoco on us!

 

I don't get what you are trying to say?

[difflock]

TCD

I liked your post/quote re the difference between the youth/young men(& women) of 1944 compared to todays angst-ridden butt-hurt society.

But the pendulum has started to swing, as evidenced by Milo Yappannoplis and his ilk.

PS

I am quite sure that Milo sniffed the wind before he choose his cause.

30 or 50 year ago his choice of cause might well have been different.

Anyway

About 40 year ago I was in Woolworths in Coleraine, just a 17 year old mooching about aimlessly, and trying not to hear the religious nutters preachng in the street outside, when an elderly Nun spoke to me, asking advice re a birthday card for her nephew.

Now even me, with my youthful hot-blooded NI Presbyterian upbringing, (and all whilst marvelling at the quite magnificent hairy mole on her chin) could see the peace and serenity in her eyes.

For her, religon, or rather a belief in God, had worked.

I still reflect on that memory from time to time.

Agnostic that I am.

Edited November 20, 2016 by difflock

[skyhuck]

If God does exist and he is just, righteous and perfect then surely he would punish wrongdoing.

If someone killed your children and the killer went before a judge, wouldn't you expect the judge to punish the perpetrator?

 

With his flood God killed countless children, along with their supposedly sinful parents and all land dwelling life, who will punish God for this?

 

After carrying out this atrocity, he instructed Noah to slaughter more animals and burn them as a sacrifice to him, God found the smell of their burning bodies to be a "restful oder"

 

Not my idea of righteous, just, perfect or loving:thumbdown:

[the village idiot]

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If its hard then why not come over to our side, make your life easier all round..

Come on WRSNI, come on over to the dark side:thumbup1:

 

It's great! Everyone dresses like me, and we only eat babies on the second tuesday of each month.

[eggsarascal]

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It's great! Everyone dresses like me, and we only eat babies on the second tuesday of each month.

 

That's a bit of a bugger! I fast on the second Tuesday of the month.