]if i may,
Religions depend on belief in souls--essentially minds that can exist independently of bodies. But experience tells us that minds depend on brain activity to function properly.
1. What religions say is that there is something deeper and more intricate that happens in afterlife. The fact that you are assuming there is no afterlife, and if there was you are assuming there is not brains is quite frankly ignorant. I respect your free will to believe what you want, but don't go assuming that you have all the answers...
then why are you assuming you have the answers?
what we do
know is we need our brains to be sentient...
religious
belief of the after life is the carrot the few use to control the masses...that we can easily see through the eyes of history.
Religions have a historical record of making failed explanations of observed natural phenomena. The most powerful argument for gods--the argument from design--has been overturned by the discovery of evolution by natural selection. This pattern of failure has resulted in a pattern of "God of the Gaps" explanations. That is, natural explanations always trump supernatural ones.
2. You can't even use science as an argument for this point. One, there is several historical texts that confirm many of the events that religions claim take place.
like?
Two, science is no more proven than religion. How do you know evolution is real? I am guessing that you read what scientists tell you and believe them.
evolution is fact. just as gravity is fact. there are theories about both.
evolution is supported:
in the lab or documented in nature.
by fossil evidence, genetic evidence, molecular evidence (DNA),
evidence from proteins, vestigial and atavistic organs, embryology (how embryos develop), biogeography (locations of species on the planet).
homology, bacteriology, virology, and immunology.
Even though they don't really show you the experiment, or prove that they actually did the experiment. This was recently experienced with the global warming myth. You haven't seen the proof yet you still believe, so why is it bad that religion does that?
go to any natural history museum and see for yourself
Plus if you researched you would find that creationists are actually winning more debates than evolutionists, because creationists have better and more convincing scientific data.
please provide these sources...
=Scots99;2466327] I always loved scientists who scorned religion for believing in something they never saw, and yet they believe in the big bang which supposedly happen millions of years ago. So tell me what scientist was there to witness that? ....0 that's what I thought.
Monsignor Georges Lemaître,
a priest from the Catholic University of Louvain, proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, he called it his "hypothesis of the primeval atom".
Big Bang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Humans have a record of worshiping false gods. If gods communicated through revelation, we would not expect to see such variety of religious belief in the world. Moreover, we would expect to find the same religious beliefs arising spontaneously in different locations, since the same set of gods (or "God") would presumably contact different people in different locations.
3. Again illogical argument! People have the right to choose what they believe.
sorry, but that has nothing to do with god
revealing himself the same way in different locations around the world...
basically, god or gods are/is a subjective experience...it is not an objective experience...
meaning everyone gets wet when it rains...that is an objective truth...god or gods are not understood that way.
... and I find it ironic that your using religious texts that say false gods where worshiped to make this point. I thought you didn't believe in those texts? Plus how do you know their false...did the scientists tell you that?
have you heard the saying,
for the sake of argument?
No religious group seems to be luckier or healthier than any other. If prayer worked, we would expect to see some people of faith leading more fortunate lives than the rest of us.
4. Again if you knew anything about religion you wouldn't make this point. Most religions have Gods or a God who clearly explain that prayer is not meant to make your life easy, but rather to bring you closer to your Gods or God.
so being closer to god means what exactly...?
Religions depend on stories of miracles--events that contravene natural laws--to support religious belief, yet miracles are notoriously resistant to corroboration and verification.
5. Well that's funny because I could of sworn that Oprah had a guy who raised from the dead, and his wife witnessed it.
that is very suspect...come on, his wife? really?
There have been numerous eye witness accounts of miracles you just choose not to believe them.
so as i thought, miracles are meant to make your life easier...
I mean the big bang is a scientific miracle of some explosion eventually helping create the intricate bodies that we possess...you choose to believe that or something close yet you have no verification.
i'm confused didn't you say, "they believe in the big bang which
supposedly happen millions of years ago"?
i'm sorry i'm not getting what you are saying here...
If you look at my points you will see that I am not trying to get you to believe in anything. I am simply showing you that what you believe in involves just as much faith as religion.
evidence vs. faith...
So don't get all high and mighty and think you have to truth to life. I certainly don't
it certainly seems like you are... not to offend you