• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Recent content by SamTP77

  1. S

    Evidence for God

    However the atheist openly confesses that he or she believes there is no God, specifically no creator too, that means you believe an objective uncertainty just as much as myself as a religious existentialist, since there is no way to know really, since the world is unknowable according to Dr...
  2. S

    Evidence for God

    Dear Eudamonist, I believe we could have an interesting discussion about the human condition and existentialism. Please notice what I said, you do feel that there is no God you have no objective way of knowing that, but you do believe. I myself do the same for the divinity of Jesus Christ...
  3. S

    Evidence for God

    I feel that atheism is questionable, and embraces an objective uncertainty just as much as Christianity. Would you agree?
  4. S

    Christian Existentialism

    I thought I would share that what I am attempting to do as a religious existentialist is not live a happy life, but a purposeful life. Specifically I have had problems with being a reflective aesthetic, living in my own head dreaming about possibilities separate from carving out a meaningful...
  5. S

    Christian Existentialism

    I appreciate your responses. I see my faith as something like drawing two magnets together and keep up the tension to have faith, like the tension you would get when pushing the north end magnet to another north end magnet, and I try to imagine the strength of these magnets as very strong. The...
  6. S

    Christian Existentialism

    I am working on trying to have a religious faith by embracing an objective uncertainty and thought this web site would be a good place to hash that out. Right now I think of myself as a person who is a roaming catholic. I am studying some Existentialism as best I can, and I was reading in the...
  7. S

    Are Atheists blind followers?

    First I would like to mention I didn't mean to break the irony meter, I am sure you can get a new one. I think they sell them where ever you can find Richard Dawkins' Books bashing religion as evil heretical views. You'll meet the new boss same as the old boss near or on those book shelves...
  8. S

    Are Atheists blind followers?

    What I think I mean by neat and pretty, is being just a little too convinced that you can explain so much about our existence with something of an absolute system. To Mling, Science tries to be an absolute system as well. It tries to explain everything that it can, issues about philosophy or...
  9. S

    Are Atheists blind followers?

    Dear Glass Soul, The part about Atheism that makes too much sense and just sounds too neat and pretty to me anyways, is the idea that we are the product of a huge stochastic process and this one sperm of my father went to this one egg of my mother just because it is just like that, in other...
  10. S

    Are Atheists blind followers?

    I think atheism makes too much sense and tries to explain too much. For instance is it true that the world is really that knowable to us? Also just because evolution is true, do we really know exactly how it happened or that there wasn't some magic in the DNA helping to shape it through the...
  11. S

    Exploring christianity

    Hello everyone, Thanks for the encouragement. I get what the last poster was saying about the polar bear. It is better to not do all that thinking about ontological arguments, but more or less just trust God on instinct. I mean I think things have a way of working out for the best and God...
  12. S

    If God was proven real?

    Dear Quotana, Atheists do hope for some thing that can't be proved, they hope they are right, and theists are wrong, really as human beings we are not made to know if God does exist, three is no way to prove his existence. As far as evidence of things not seen, you can't prove Jesus Christ...
  13. S

    If God was proven real?

    Thanks for helping me with the quote Tinker Grey and Quotana. I see a little bit of where we disagree and thank you for sharing. It seems to boil down to where you would say you lack a belief in God, and find you can't say you disbelieve in God because there are so many different God concepts...
  14. S

    If God was proven real?

    Dear Quotana, Here I go this is the way I look at atheism and faith and we can agree to disagree, but it would be nice if we could clarify what we disagree about here let me recite from a philosophy book "Whether you are convinced God exists or God doesn't exist or it is better to reserve...
  15. S

    If God was proven real?

    Dear Quotana, I think I understand what you wrote, I think. Allow me to try to be more simplistic, I read this in a philosophy book "Whether you are convinced of the existence of God or convinced there is not a God, or convinced it is better to reserve judgment is an issue of faith." I feel...