You would think jesus would pay his bills. but i guess not.

Discussion in 'Religion and Spirituality' started by Free Thinker, Feb 3, 2011.

  1. No here is what I'm saying. Atheism isn't arrogance it's lack of evidence.
     
    #71     Feb 3, 2011
  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    and i never said atheism WAS arrogance. you simply have no reading comprehension skills.
     
    #72     Feb 3, 2011
  3. stu

    stu

    ...which isn't saying much considering

    you cannot disprove there is no God.
     
    #73     Feb 3, 2011
  4. Pretty silly concept actually, Jesus didn't have money to pay bills.

    By the way, the name is Jesus, not jesus. I know that it hurts you to accept that Jesus was his name, but it actually shows a level of intellectual maturity to not spell a proper name properly.

    You took the time to title yourself Free Thinker...so you do know how to capitalize a name.

    Go on, it won't hurt you to spell Jesus as Jesus, nor God as God. It doesn't make you a believer to spell a proper name properly...

     
    #74     Feb 3, 2011
  5. Ricter

    Ricter

    For bigarrow, belief in God requires evidence of God.
    Bigarrow is not aware of any evidence of God.
    Therefore bigarrow does not believe in God.

    Is that it?
     
    #75     Feb 3, 2011
  6. i would not ask you to prove there is no santa clause why do you ask me to prove there is not god. both are a product of human imagination.

    your weak rational for belief in gods has been debated for centuries and found weak. it is called an Argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or appeal to ignorance, is an informal logical fallacy. It asserts that a proposition is necessarily true because it has not been proven false

    Russell's teapot, sometimes called the Celestial teapot, Cosmic teapot or Bertrand's teapot, is an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate the idea that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically unfalsifiable claims rather than shifting the burden of proof to others, specifically in the case of religion. Russell's teapot is still referred to in discussions concerning the existence of God.


    If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.[1]

    Bertrand Russell
     
    #76     Feb 3, 2011
  7. Ricter

    Ricter

    "The teapot metaphor is no good anymore. NASA engineers, as an inside joke, secreted one aboard a Mars probe. It was "accidentally" ejected during a stage separation or panel extension, I can't remember which."
     
    #77     Feb 3, 2011
  8. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    They haven't taught reading comprehension at the University of Liberalism for decades now.
     
    #78     Feb 3, 2011
  9. It's Texas Tech in Lubbock where this boy received his higher education. But really running a business is where I received my real education, its called the school of hard knocks. Yes Lucrum a small business man here doing my small part in helping this economy recover from the Bush years. ;) And soon to be doing my small part to help recover from the Obama years ;0.
     
    #79     Feb 3, 2011
  10. Ricter

    Ricter

    So we have you to thank for the current recovery?

    Thank you!
     
    #80     Feb 3, 2011