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LOL. No. Or, your idea of personal identity is drastically different from mine.
Interesting friend!français;40021952 said:Here are my answers to the following questions, as I am an atheist!
I think we just cease to exist. I think it is just like all mechanical devises, animals, and plants.. We all eventually die out, and cease to exist.
With modern science, we could one day bring people back to life with cloning.. But I think all, including atheists can agree that cloning is a pretty crazy thing, and no one really wants to see people get cloned!
I was raised in a devout Christian household. My grandpa was a pastor, which brought major influence on me.
Yes, I have read the Bible... I would say the entire thing 8 or 9 times, the Gospels 15 or 16, and the Torah 20+.
I still read the Bible.. It is an interesting book!!
Many, many different reasons. The reasons are endless!
But to sum it up, I think really and truly there is just 1. no proof, and religion is nothing that a human could not create. Evolution, homosexuality, eternal hell, character of Jesus, etc were also reasons. I have a blog entry with more info, if you wish to check my blog!
The lack of empirical evidence. Yet, that is not the only kind of evidence that exists.
I think it's the controversy surrounding Creation-Evolution. And to be quite fair, a lot of atheists simply act defensively as Christians first attack them.
Christianity was never meant to be just about "completing the Bible". It is something deeper, a relationship with Jesus Christ, something that is neither empirically measured nor a task you can fulfill and that means you know everything about Christianity.
Brother I ask you to settle down. They came here open enough to answer people's genuine questions not to get into a debate about religion. Personally I feel that we the church have failed as well I guess you could say I have been having a hard time with fundamentalism myself. It seems like my mind is far more open than my families. That doesn't make me any less of a Christian it just means that I accept more than condem. I mean yes it bothers me when I know people sin. I despise sin but that doesn't mean I turn on someone just because they are in that state. I am to Love them.
Empirical evidence is the best we have to go by, though.
My point was simply that atheists don't necessarily know less about christianity than christians, as someone said earlier.
Well, I for one have never been hurt by anything religious. I just simply lack a belief in the gods. That's all there is to it.
My pleasure.
Awesome, I'm glad I inspire question.
I meant more in the sense of wisdom. Is it wise to trust what you don't see? See Paul makes this claim in his Epistles [somewhere] that we "put our faith not on what is seen but on what is unseen, for what is seen in temporary, but what is unseen is eternal". Of course what Paul means by "seen" and "unseen" is debatable. i personally think when Pauls says "unseen" he's talking about things like love and joy and life [AKA: things that can't be bought]. But this isn't the place for a debate Okay, if you mean that we should believe in things that can't be bought, I agree. Believe is also an ambiguous term, mind you. For example I believe that if I trip, I will fall. I believe in love. I believe flossing is a good idea. None of these mean the same as having faith in something without evidence. But yes, I believe that love and joy and pleasure are important to living a good life. I think most atheists would agree with me on thatsorry for the misunderstanding
though thats not really what I meant either but thats ok you answered the quistion in this post anyways. See? most atheists beleive that in order for something to be true it must be supported by many convincing reasons to beleive [aka proofs]. Though i kind of disagree with this because it's possable that the human mind might not be the supreme mind... so what is proof to us might not be proof to someone who thinks higher than us. I say this because proof is limited to the box of our brains. this is not to say that we beleive anything blindly.... it simply means that it's possable to beleive something thats illogical]. i'm just trying to give ya a better understanding of what Christains mean by "faith"Something that is true is not required to have justifications in the absolute sense, no. Something, in theory, could be true without there being evidence to support it. And our logic can be wrong. However, it's all we have in practical terms. We have only our own logic to go by and base our idea of reality on. It seems to work to our advantage as well, since we have invented things that could only work if we got things right about how reality works. If circuit theory were wrong, for example, we probably wouldn't have electric equipment at all. The fact that we do have electricity working for us, indicates that we're on to something. Circuit theory hasn't been proven absolutely true. Nothing can be. However, it's a pretty safe bet, and in this universe, that's the best we can hope for: a safe, educated bet.I agree with that
No, I'm not at all upset.I hope your not upset [cause i'm sure you've heard this answer countless times
On one hand double standards are always something people dislike seeing in others. On the other hand, the thing about religion and its adherence, there is alot of disagreement as to what a "true believer" is. For example, christians (just as an example) refer to the Bible as their source of doctrines. The Bible is a long book and adherence to some of what's in there would be contradictory to stuff written elsewhere. So a christian professing the Bible as the basis for their faith, can have very different ideas of what is God's will compared to that of another christian. Complete adherence to the 10 commandments means one must stone people who work on Sunday. Yet if a christian says that one should never take a life, I can't necessarily say that this person has a double standard. Because I don't know if he or she adheres completely to the 10 commandments. There would have to be a clear idea of what the person (atheist, christian, buddhist, etc) holds as true/believes, and THEN one could determine if the person in question has double standards.
