Religion

[unixman]

Y'all be like default position Revelation Internet Meme just making stuff up


LOL. Delicious.

[AtW]

None of which proves existance in God

You should have started with that.

[SpontaneousOrder]

My point is that Christianity is more than an arbitrary postulation invented in a moment, whereas our tasty carbonara friend obviously isn't. Christianity derives from multiple sources including eye witness accounts, the great tagliatelle one (may he bless us) derives from one source, and that source says they made it up.

None of which proves existance in God, which as I said, is unproveable either way in my view. If you think you can (dis)prove it, your notion of God is perhaps different from mine.

It's impossible to prove a negative - so your or my own notion of God is irrelevant.

[SpontaneousOrder]

My point is that Christianity is more than an arbitrary postulation invented in a moment, whereas our tasty carbonara friend obviously isn't. Christianity derives from multiple sources including eye witness accounts, the great tagliatelle one (may he bless us) derives from one source, and that source says they made it up.

So the interesting bit about that is that you are implying that the rationality behind believing in any particular deity is related to probability. That means that we should be able to mathematically rank the rationality of believing on God against other potential beliefs (as I believe we can), like UFOs, 911 being an inside job, homeopathy, astrology, reincarnation, etc etc.

[AtW]

So the interesting bit about that is that you are implying that the rationality behind believing in any particular deity is related to probability.

It helps a lot if you carry a big stick in a form of burning heretics or something like that...

[NotAllThere]

It's impossible to prove a negative.

Rubbish is it. Fermat's last theorem: there are no integers which satisfy x^n + y^n = z^n, n>2.

[SimonMac]

Arguing over religion is like saying my imaginary friend is better than yours

[Whorty]

but there is (some) evidence for the existance of God. Jesus was keen on fish, if that helps.

There is as much evidence of god as there is for anything imaginary. People claim to have spoken to god, have dreams from god and be the son of god, but just because someone claims something doesn't make it real.

A lot of children claim to have seen santa. Children claim to have an invisible friend. But as adults we nod our heads, smile and say 'oh, how sweet'. Then the children grow up.

With religion, the 'children' just don't grow up!

This guy says it much better than I ever could : http://godisimaginary.com/i17.htm

[darmstadt]

So why then? Pope Francis embraces girl after she asks: 'Why does God allow children to become prostitutes?' - News - People - The Independent

“She is the only one who has put forward a question for which there is no answer and she was not even able to express it in words but rather in tears.”

[scooterscot]

Amen..

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus