Why atheists and agnostics come to this forum?

[Bob the Unbeliever]

Plus they're knowledge of Scripture is far deeper than many Christians here. If one is raised in a fundamentalist church, with every word of Scripture directly from God, then once that is no longer believed the decision is not to convert to another religion but to reject all.

Indeed. It certainly worked for me.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

Respect and love to my atheist and agnostic brothers and sisters. Why they come to religious forums?
Isn't it that they are searching for spirituality, religion and God. Maybe,deep inside, they want to believe, or maybe deep inside, they do believe

Or maybe they see people in their immediate environment and / or on the world stage, making very bad decisions and engaging in reprehensible actions as a direct result of their religious beliefs, which triggers them to engage religious folks in debate / discussion on whatever platform that presents itself.

 

[syo]

Why they come to religious forums?

They have their theories and want to test them. Who knows?

 

[MonkeyFire]

That's nice. It's a darn shame there is zero reason to believe anything you just said, has the slightest basis in reality-- you don't even have an ancient, bad-mistranslated bronze age book of hearsay to go by...

It's in the bibie.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

It's in the bibie.

no. It most assuredly is not.

 

[MonkeyFire]

no. It most assuredly is not.

What's the forbidden fruit then?

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

What's the forbidden fruit then?

Nonsense? A Parable? An Ugly Fairy Tale, in which the main character is a Dead-Beat Dad, and deliberately and with malice, places innocent and ignorant children in a place that has a Literal Monster who's only goal is to subvert the naive babies?

Worse: The entire Narrative of Original Sin? Is a Brutal Punishment of the Descendants for the "sins" of the Ancestors! The Descendants may have done NOTHING! (indeed---if they are children, that is accurate).

Punishing those that come later, for whatever those that came before? IS UNFAIR AND IMMORAL!

The entire idea is Maliciously Evil.

 

[MonkeyFire]

Nonsense? A Parable? An Ugly Fairy Tale, in which the main character is a Dead-Beat Dad, and deliberately and with malice, places innocent and ignorant children in a place that has a Literal Monster who's only goal is to subvert the naive babies?

Worse: The entire Narrative of Original Sin? Is a Brutal Punishment of the Descendants for the "sins" of the Ancestors! The Descendants may have done NOTHING! (indeed---if they are children, that is accurate).

Punishing those that come later, for whatever those that came before? IS UNFAIR AND IMMORAL!

The entire idea is Maliciously Evil.

Or is the sin of man thy war?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

You share the trait of atheism with them. Fact. Why fight the fact so much ? I drew no conclusion from the fact, why are you ?

I get the sense that you sincerely don't see how conceited and chauvinistic it is to call mere disagreement with you to be a "trait."

Christianity is just another religion, not some sort of standard to measure other beliefs against.

 

[shmogie]

I get the sense that you sincerely don't see how conceited and chauvinistic it is to call mere disagreement with you to be a "trait."

Christianity is just another religion, not some sort of standard to measure other beliefs against.

Once again, your reading is questionable. I didn't call disagreement with me a trait, I called atheism a trait.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Once again, your reading is questionable. I didn't call disagreement with me a trait, I called atheism a trait.

And atheism is just not believing in any gods.

You and Stalin both reject humanism, secularism, and freethought. I suppose that makes three traits that you two share.

 

[shmogie]

And atheism is just not believing in any gods.

You and Stalin both reject humanism, secularism, and freethought. I suppose that makes three traits that you two share.

One we share, possibly two. I do not reject free thought, as long as it doesn't impinge on others. Secularism can mean a whole variety of things depending on where and how it is applied.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

Or is the sin of man thy war?

English? Message does not parse.

 

[MonkeyFire]

English? Message does not parse.

War = knowledge of good & evil.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

War = knowledge of good & evil.

No. You do not GET to make up your own terms. Communication is impossible if you are simply re-inventing the meaning of words to suit your fantasies.

Your little saying, above? Is devoid of common meaning, and furthermore? It's patently absurd on it's face.

War has aspects of good AND evil, depending on a great many factors. Apparently, you have invented some meaning that isn't actually humans in violent conflict with each other...

... if we are not going to speak English, we cannot communicate. Sorry.

 

[MonkeyFire]

No. You do not GET to make up your own terms. Communication is impossible if you are simply re-inventing the meaning of words to suit your fantasies.

Your little saying, above? Is devoid of common meaning, and furthermore? It's patently absurd on it's face.

War has aspects of good AND evil, depending on a great many factors. Apparently, you have invented some meaning that isn't actually humans in violent conflict with each other...

... if we are not going to speak English, we cannot communicate. Sorry.

I thought it was rather rational. Good day to you, sir.

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

I thought it was rather rational. Good day to you, sir.

Of course you did.... *sigh*

 

[MonkeyFire]

Of course you did.... *sigh*

Remember the white horse who conquers just to conquer because God is clearly passive.

 

[McBell]

Remember the white horse who conquers just to conquer because God is clearly passive.

Sodom and Gomorrah
World Wide Flood

Not so passive

 

[Bob the Unbeliever]

Remember the white horse who conquers just to conquer because God is clearly passive.

Noah's flood. Physically kicking Adam and Eve out. Commanding the Israelites to kill everyone but the virgin little girls. Killing that one dude who just wanted to steady the Ark of the Covenant. Sending several bears to murder some little kids who were smart-mouthed. Sending plagues to Egypt. Killing all the first born babies in Egypt. Drowning Pharaoh's men, and Pharaoh too.

You have an odd idea of "passive", here...