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The main point? Libs hate Asians due to their ethnicity, which is something they can't control. We are watchful of Islam, which is a dangerous ideology. Hating a person for ethnicity vs. hating an idea are two things that do not correlate in any way. The point stands.
How you wend your way through life shouldn't be up for a vote..
If you're that malleable, I'm a Nigerian king who needs a couple thousand $$'s so I can reclaim my fortune.. If you send it to me, I'll reward you handsomely when I become rich.
Depends on if you want hope and the peace of mind that comes with it or the total obliteration of it.
The very fact that your main reason for believing something is based solely on how it makes you feel proves that you don't care about truth at all. What makes you think objective reality cares how it makes you feel? The difference between spirituality and atheism is that atheists look at the world and make judgements based on what they observe and spiritual/religious people just look for things that make them feel warm and fuzzy or that reinforce the confirmation bias that was hammered into their brain from childhood.
2)Peace of mind isn't obtained through emotions but through having met the instinct to survive and be alive.
3)You don't have that peace of mind, thus you stay anxious because of not having met that basic psychological need.
Whatever you cantankerous fudge muppet. You can be an atheist and have peace of mind while you sit on the beach eating bananas and you can be a christian in constant fear and insecurity if you live in a place of war and tyranny and have to eat a moldy potato for dinner.
Whatever you cantankerous fudge muppet. You can be an atheist and have peace of mind
Sure ya can nom. You look like your mind is at peace...always looking...looking...looking, constantly looking over your subconscious shoulder...wondering quietly if you might just be wrong...
while you sit on the beach eating bananas and you can be a christian in constant fear and insecurity if you live in a place of war and tyranny and have to eat a moldy potato for dinner.
Of course peace of mind about being in a warzone and peace of mind with dying are 2 seperate things.
The point. You can stop wearing the fake "I'm fully convinced of my atheism" horseshit mask that we both know you are wearing. We both know it's a laugh.
You don't doubt that God exists because you are a closed minded fool. At least an atheist can examine their beliefs and consider other possibilities, you just "know" what is right because you don't know so you choose to believe based on faith which is the opposite of knowing something. It's just deciding something is true with no evidence.
You don't doubt that God exists because you are a closed minded fool.
I do doubt that God exists. I also doubt an infinite loop of chickens and eggs with no first chicken. There has to be a first thing or a timeless thing where tense is meaningless and abstract. I choose faith because it has benefits, where unbelief does not. It's simple logic.
At least an atheist can examine their beliefs and consider other possibilities
This is a completely false proposition to say "open to ideas" while militantly disregarding ideas in a default mode.
you just "know" what is right because you don't know so you choose to believe based on faith which is the opposite of knowing something.
Incoherent ramblings.
It's just deciding something is true with no evidence.
There is more than sufficient evidence for belief.
Saying you have doubts about both positions is stupid? Get off the stage you dogmatic hack.
All you ever do here is preach religion and hate politics.
Riiiight...
So what do you call blackface, calling Ivanka a cunt, making fun of Melania's accent, calling 63 million people deplorable and iredeemable (many who voted for Obama), calling blacks uncle toms, and trashing, Christians, Whites, minority conservatives, Dennis Rodman, Kanye West, and the Kardashians..
Now, as for you, you are using psychological projection. You show every trait of such. You are using emotions rather than facts or logic to manifest a militant atheism.
Perhaps a priest, your parents, or someone else "wronged" you in your mind, thus you were unable psychologically to distinguish the person from God.
If you choose Atheism, your future holds nothing more than death. You will try to squeeze all sorts of vices into these few years of life, searching for fulfillment and that elusive happiness.
But with every vice whether it be cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, sex, etc, there will consequences. There might be problems of addictions, health problems, unplanned children, divorce, alimony, etc.
You will have a greater fear of illness, thinking that this might be the end of you.
If you choose Christianity, you will have moral guidelines helping to keep you from so many problems in life. You will live with the peace and hope of a wonderful future for you and your loved ones. You will enjoy the love of a close family, and all the wonderful pleasures that comes with it.
Deaths of loved ones will be more bearable with the hopes of one day seeing them again.
So lets say you lived your life as a Christian, and there is no God? What did you lose? You still had a wonderful life, free from many of the problems created from immoral lifestyles, free from the depression of an empty life with no hope for a better future.
If you choose Atheism, you can live it up for a short time, finding that with immoral lifestyles comes many problems with little hope of a better life in the future. As we separate God from our nation, the suicide rate is exploding. Suicide is the direct result of the lack of hope to a better future.
If you choose Atheism, and there is a God, you chose an empty life and an eternity of emptiness. Its a lose lose choice.
If you choose Atheism, your future holds nothing more than death
Yeah death sucks and all but why would anyone just assume that reality has to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside rather than just being the cruel brutal thing that it observably actually is, full of unnecessary suffering.
But with every vice whether it be cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, sex, etc
Not only are these things not universal among atheists by any means, but they are totally irrelevant. Again, why do christians assume reality has to conform to what makes them feel good or reinforces their moral sensibilities? It's because you aren't looking for answers and truth, you are just asserting what you want to be true.
If you choose Christianity, you will have moral guidelines
But what if objective reality has nothing to do with morality and it's up to humans to figure out how to act morally? These aren't arguments based in reality, they are arguments based in social constructs and warm fuzzy feelings.
We've had centuries of evidence that proves a Christian life leads to far fewer problems. Please spare us all the statistics on people identifying as Christians while ignoring most of God's word.
As Progressives have censored God from our public, there are record numbers of broken homes, record suicides, etc. etc.
You are denying obvious reality and therefore a waste of time to debate. Reality looks at the obvious evidence and drawing obvious conclusions.
Our culture is not improving as we separate God from public. It is getting much worse.
We've had centuries of evidence that proves a Christian life leads to far fewer problems.
Even if that where true it wouldn't matter, because objective reality isn't tailored to what suits humans best. Just because your belief system works to instill moral values in people and makes you feel good doesn't mean it's true.
As Progressives have censored God from our public, there are record numbers of broken homes, record suicides, etc. etc.
You could attribute that to more than just a lack of fairy tails, namely the shrinking of the middle class and increase in poverty, the dumbing down of education, the introduction of constant distractions and brain molesting chemicals and pharmaceuticals etc.
You are denying obvious reality and therefore a waste of time to debate. Reality looks at the obvious evidence and drawing obvious conclusions.
Yes because it's so painstakingly obvious that whatever makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside must be the right answer.
If reality doesn't make you happy then simply pretend you are living in a different one.
The problem with that idea is that no matter what you think, it’s not going to affect the world around you. You can pretend that everything is going all right when in fact it’s not. There is no, “other reality,” there’s only one reality and one truth, whatever it may be.
Correct me if I'm wrong, and I may be because people hop on different accounts all the time, but aren't you the one that believes 9/11 was an inside job?
We both live in reality, we just have different beliefs.
What you and most of the world fails to admit is that if Christianity is true, the choice a person makes will determine his eternity.
I agree. All of our choices determine our eternity.
What makes a person happiest means nothing if it is only for 70 years of life verses eternity.
For a person to truly believe in something they must decide for themselves. Being forced to choose one or another may not be good enough especially when either option isn't the best for them. I could tell him he must be Christian but what good does that do if he doesn't truly believe and is just doing what he's told?
I agree. All of our choices determine our eternity.
What if our eternity determines our choices?
For a person to truly believe in something they must decide for themselves. Being forced to choose one or another may not be good enough
IF YOU ASK me "choosing" what you believe is pointless because reality is not effected by your choices. Instead of choosing beliefs you should let yourself be forced by the facts (rather than by other people) to accept what is actually true
I have never met a Christian who thought they could force someone to believe.
IT MUST BE A PERSON'S FREE WILL AND CHOICE.
Where do you get such nonsense of people being forced to be Christians?
What a Christian should always do, is warn people of the consequences of their decisions in life. That is called being a loving compassionate person who cares about the futures of other's.
It's no different when we warn others of the dangers of smoking, drugs, sex, playing in traffic, speeding in cars, mountain climbing, you name it.
Caring people warn others to things they may harm them in the future.
Christians believe there is a Heaven and Hell, and we warn people of the importance of their decisions in life. To say that people should just do what feels good to them is basically saying you do not truly believe there is a Hell.
Romans 10:9 that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.
