It is not equivocating, it is common sense. Anything that can be described as running by a set of laws is prescribed/created/invented by an independent external party. To reject this is to reject common sense. I don't think there is a need to say more.
To suggest Godidit because it's just plain common sense and nothing else needs to be said, is not only ridiculous, it's a cop out. There is absolutely no reason to suggest that a god created the universe. That is just a desirable theistic notion in liu of our current lack of knowledge and understanding.
Need you say more?....please!
Second time words are put into my mouth, I already said myths don't verify anything. But neither do your statements verify that biblical accounts are myths.
Nothing I say will verify that biblical accounts are myth. Im just a anonymous atheist on the Internet.
Conclusions such as that, are arrived at only after careful objective examination.
Once again, I see no reason why Christianity is granted anymore authenticity than any other theistic notions put forward in the history of mankind.
IO is believed by the Maori people as one supreme God, so it is your part to convince me that IO is a different God from the one I believe and is more powerful.
It not my part to convince you of anything nor do I have any interest in verifying the identity of the imaginary friends held in high regard by primitive peoples.
But as I have read, Maori's beliefs do not seem to conflict with the biblical accounts of history and therefore it is entirely possible that they believe in the same God Noah believed but merely called Him by a different name.
If you had to read it, it was obviously a modern interpretation.
Traditional Maori relied on oral tradition. The name IO was even too Tapu to mention orally let alone record.
The early European settlers in New Zealand succeeded in putting their Christ into Maori tradition with the widespread use of their Anglican missionaries, they essentially muddied the waters with their own religion. A smart way of unifying with some of the native warriors so they would ally with the british soldiers to slaughter other tribes that wouldn't comply.
The traditional Maori belief system is now well and truly contaminated with Christianity, hence the modern transliterated words in the maori language so necessary now for Maori to worship Christ.
Would you acknowledge that it is entirely possible that Maori and Christians believe in the same supreme God?
Christian Maoris do worship the same god. But this certainly was not the case for a millennia prior to European settlement.
To even make such a comparison prior to european settlement would probably get you boiled up in a big pot.
Then let me tell you a group of early Christians, called the Bereans, tested what they heard from the disciples and examined everything they said to determine their truth.
Believing in the true God does not devoid people of reason and careful study, in fact God encourages people to seek and test the truth.
To believe in gods in these modern times is to abandon reason.
To be able to believe in a god to the point that one can believe that killing others without any reason is a sacred thing shows the signs of a passive mind wholly incapable of moral reasoning.
You appear to understand this, yet you still follow an Abrahamic religion, how do you deal with the cognitive dissonance?
True Christians, on the other hand, exercise their minds to discern good from evil, truth from lies and test everything they see through the use of moral reasoning.
The criteria to be a Christian is much simpler than that. Whether one is true Christian or not is not up to your judgement.
