Please please PLEASE stop quoting the bile in order to prove your argument. I know you have little else, but like a random twitterer stated, using the Bible as proof of God is like using Harry Potter as proof of Wizards.
Atheists or members of other religions *do* *Not* believe that the bile is a real genuine holy book, so why would quoting from it convince us of anything?
I think a major problem leading to things like this is the assumption by Christians and some other religious folk that Atheists actually do believe in God, but are just rejecting him. This is *not* the case! Like with God, believing in something does not make it true.
I need to read some Harry Potter (even though I think the writing is garbage, sorry guys), so I can quote it back at Christians every time they try to use the bible to tell me I should believe. Just bewilder the heck out of them.
On an unrelated note, I read a lot of Christians asking how former theists could have believed before, but not believe now. Did you used to believe in Santa? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth fairy? Many (American) children believed in one or all of these at some point, but as they grow up they come to realize that these ideas are silly and stop believing them. It is almost exactly the same with atheists. As children or naive adults they were taught things that in reality are rather absurd or silly, and as they matured and became educated, these concepts no longer made sense to keep to heart and were discarded. That's all.
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Phillipa "Seedlet" Robinson
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Religion is flawed. Most Religious people think that it is their place to prove the existence of God in some way, shape, or form.
This is completely and utterly wrong.
It is not the point of Religion, or even faith, to prove or disprove God's existence. Religion (in most cases) assumes you have already accepted that God exists, but they want to tell people about him. Legally, this is tantamount to hearsay.
While I do believe in God, I take a very scientific and analytical approach to God. And you are right - the bible is not proof. God, just as any other question, should be provable within the confines of clear and irrefutable evidence observable. If God is an experiment, then the result should be able to repeated by anyone who runs the experiment.
Problem is neither side has offered proof yet.
You missed a B up there, too.
-HoS
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