Carpe Serpentis
Hybrid Snake Lover
I don't make up these beliefs that people have. People have the right to believe anything they want to believe. Just don't expect me to buy into it.
Carpe. You really need a thesaurus. You find what you think is a big or intelligent word and use it over and over and OVER again.
You also cite onesided papers or studies that are strued towards what you want it to say, instead of using unbiased documentations.
You also get away with calling large groups of people derogatory names by doing it all in a round about way.
I wish once we ignored someone that we wouldnt see anything that person said even if it was quoted.
If you had clicked on the link that I cited as well, you might have understood what I was getting at a bit better. I will cite it again for you.
"The Bible provides a complete genealogy from Adam to Jesus. You can go through the genealogies and add up the years. You'll get a total that is just over 4,000 years. Add the 2,000 years since the time of Jesus and you get just over 6,000 years since God created everything.
Is there anything wrong with figuring out the age of the earth this way? No. There is nothing to indicate the genealogies are incomplete. There is nothing to indicate God left anything out. There is nothing in the Bible that indicates in any way that the world is much older than 6,000 years old"
http://www.missiontoamerica.com/genesis/six-thousand-years.html
Please, click on the link if you would like to know more as I have provided you that link twice now. Or, do your own search. Either, way, you will find information that will help you understand where I was coming from.
"Delusional disorder refers to a condition associated with one or more nonbizarre delusions of thinking—such as expressing beliefs that occur in real life such as being poisoned, being stalked, being loved or deceived, or having an illness, provided no other symptoms of schizophrenia are exhibited.
Delusions may seem believable at face value, and patients may appear normal as long as an outsider does not touch upon their delusional themes. Mood episodes are relatively brief compared with the total duration of the delusional periods. Also, these delusions are not due to a medical condition or substance abuse.
Themes of delusions may fall into the following types: erotomanic type (patient believes that a person, usually of higher social standing, is in love with the individual); grandiose type (patient believes that he has some great but unrecognized talent or insight, a special identity, knowledge, power, self-worth, or special relationship with someone famous or with God).." http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/delusional-disorder
There is also a good book out called, "The God Delusion" by Dawkins.
My opinion or belief about such matters is not a new one nor is it completely unfounded as if one is going to believe that one belief is true and all others are false then one is just one religion away from believing the same way that I do. If however you believe that your religion is right and there are others that are right then you deny the parts of your own religion that contradict the parts of the other religion and vice versa. There is much to be said and to be thought about where it concerns why we should blindly believe in any mythical being over another or any at all for that matter when we are so hard pressed to believe in many things that have mountains of evidence for their being and yet when not a shred of real evidence can place one god or mythical being above another we feel justified in doing so? I for one can no longer wrap my head around such thoughts even though I once did. I know it can be easy to believe in things like santa, gods, etc. I know it makes us feel good and even bad at times to do so for fear of going to hell or some other punishment if your particular religion does not believe in hell. The promise of rewards... I get all of that, but to me they are all empty promises as there is no proof and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. I can not choose between more than 3,000 deities nor can I even find the time to study them all to effectively choose which one I should be following and what would I base that decision on even if I did have that time? What proof would I have that I was on the right track? If there is a god and I am wrong, I might piss him off if I chose the wrong religion or god. Perhaps it is better not to chose then as perhaps a just and descent god will approve more of a man who lives a just and descent life filled with reasoning and questioning more than he approves of the man who blindly followed the wrong religion of which there are choices enough to virtually assure that most will get it wrong or have gotten it wrong as even the christian religion has only been around for a few thousand years. Religions come and go, they evolve and go extinct and all life evolves. That much is true. That much I can accept. A just god, if he exists, will much more approve of the man who questions and uses reason then who blindly follows the wrong religion and devotes his entire life to teachings simply out of fear of eternal punishment and promise of eternal rewards... as this would show a man who failed to reason and failed to do good simply for the sake of doing good, but instead did so out of fear of eternal punishment and promise of eternal rewards. If a man simply chooses blindly on faith the religion and god he is to follow and picks the wrong religion and or god then what favor has he or she achieved?
Too Long To Read!
There's a good reason Dawkin's calls his book The God Delusion. You should give it a read no matter your beliefs. Its really pretty good.I viewed the post... Looks like more thinly veiled name calling... Seems to happen quite a bit in this thread.
Now anyone who believes in God/s is delusional.... :rofl:
Isn't this supposed to be about how we feel, not arguing and demanding proof, and belittling those who don't have the same beliefs?
There's that psychology card again.
You've been diagnosed by the doctor.
Is a militant non-believer better then a militant believer?
Is a militant non-believer better then a militant believer?