OT "I'm Dealing With A Few Transgender Issues"

It sure beats evolution, or what ever that looks like. Get creative, mon!

 

There is no evolution vs creation debate. There is accepting facts, knowing we don't know everything but do know a lot and can keep learning, or anti science denial of fact. On biology, history, epidemiology, and who won 2020 presidential election.

 

So a myth beats something you have no idea of what it even is.......face it dude...your ancestors were one celled boogers that crawled out of the primordial stew called the ocean and grew a tail.....then some eyeballs...then crawled around until they had the bone structure to stand upright...sort of....shocking when you learn you're related to the sponge.

 

I doubt he drinks tea. But, anyway, I digress.

As kind of a funny aside, while we were in Seattle staying at their place, he'd offer me gummy bears every night. I politely declined. But, as the story goes, he had my extremely straight-laced oldest sister laughing her butt every night they were there a few weeks earlier. Pericles (pronounced: Pare-eh-cleze) was the life of the party. He's Portuguese, and part of some high-faluten' royalty family in the Azores and has my extended family convinced we should all retire there. I've mentioned the Azores in here in the past, but we shall see.

 

Hey that's a coincidence that his name is pronounced the same as the famous Greek. "Pericles was an Athenian statesman who played a large role in developing democracy in Athens and helped make it the political and cultural center of ancient Greece."

 

Exactly. I was a partying, hedonistic atheist.........until I had a change of heart. And I didn't need scientific evidence. It was a complete personal about-face experience, in the course of one evening, in the comfort of my home. Then, soon after, when personal, non-coincidental miracles began happening in my life, there was a tremendous substantiation that I had made the absolute right decision.

That was in 1989 and I've never looked back since.

 

I became a committed atheist at 13. Not only was there no evidence for the god of Torah, the concept contradicted all the science I knew. Became more convinced over the years. Religion strikes me as so dull. I remember when Bill Nye debated Ken Holm. Every time Nye was asked a question to which answer is not yet known, because for some weird reason anti science people think if they can get someone to say I don't know they have not only disproven 150 years if biology, they have proven bible literally correct, Nye said we don't yet know so let's go find out. Ham would say a book written 2000 years ago has all the answers. Like nothing has been learned in 2000 years and nothing can be. What a dreary world.

 

Say what you'd like. I've never had such a more fun and fulfilled had since becoming a Christian. Freedom in Christ is fascinating.

 

I read The Mind of God by Francis Collins a few years back. It came in a package with The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I did not expect Collins to convince me. But he is a genuine scientist, director of National Institute of Health, and evangelical Christian so I was curious about how he balanced the two. So disappointing. His best arguments were no different from what I got from intelligent high school students and some based on entirely false premises (he claims there is a universal moral code across cultures so it must have divine origin; what is considered moral and otherwise varies enormously across cultures). But where he really revolted me was when he talked about his daughter being raped while she was in medical school by a man who broke into her apartment in the middle of the night. He describes eloquently her hysterical phone call at 2 AM, her years of flashbacks and nightmares, his own rage. The rapist was never caught. Like many believers he asked the question how could a god allow such evil? Some get around it by saying their god gave us free will to do good or evil which strikes me as a cop-out. But Collins said that he, like all parents, wanted to protect his daughter and maybe this was god's way of telling him he could not keep evil from her. I mean, what kind of vile god would arrange for a woman to be raped to take down her father's pride a notch? Also it gave her more compassion for other rape victims, you know, the ones god sent rapists to. Puke.

 

Evolution is obviously fact. Arguing against it is the same as arguing the world is flat. The argument that since science doesn’t know precisely how life originated means religion (at least their specific religion) is therefore legit, forgets that we didn’t even know about evolution until around 250 years ago and it’s only been about 70 years since the concept of natural selection became universally accepted. Human knowledge also evolves. How can someone say with a straight-face that since scientists don’t have it all figured out in 2021, that somehow people thousands of years ago must have had it all figured out??? You know, the same people who thought the sun revolves around earth, who didn’t know those lights in the sky were other stars with their own planets. They’d never heard of DNA, electricity, chemistry (not alchemy), genetics, etc., but apparently they knew how the earth was created and why, the meaning of life, and what happens after we die. In fact, they knew so much that if you disagreed with them you’re a sinner, a heretic, and you deserve to die in painful and creative ways. So please give them money and everlasting submission to their authority.

I’m agnostic, and if every other person was truthful with themselves they’d be agnostic too. It’s the I-don’t-fucking-know category. It’s not an accident that there are so many varying religions, the roots of which are almost purely geographical. Because nobody fucking knows.

I don’t know if there’s a higher power, if there’s even a reason for anything to exist - there doesn’t need to be - but I’m pretty confident in saying that every single man-created religion doesn’t have the slightest idea either. The very concept of another human, who has never died, telling you what happens after you die, is so amazingly stupid that I pity people who revolve their entire lives around what the science-fiction writers of two thousand years ago wrote.

People love to say that their lives have changed for the better since they became religious, as if that’s evidence. Many peoples lives have also changed for the better since they left religion as well, it doesn’t mean anything. Simply because something good happened in your life doesn’t mean that you now know the meaning of life, how the universe was created and what happens after we die. I mean, how do you even make that leap in thinking? Good things happen to scientologist after they join as well but I suppose that’s stupid. Think of all the religious people in this world right now who are going through hell - Covid, Haiti, Afghanistan, etc. Why are they any different than you?



Religion is the very height of hypocrisy, narcissism and self-importance. To the point I find it offensive.

 

I highly dislike religion, too. So did Jesus.

 

You literally just wrote, "Say what you'd like. I've never had such a more fun and fulfilled had since becoming a Christian. Freedom in Christ is fascinating."

 

you could accomplish the same bliss with a simple frontal lobotomy...erasing the part of the brain that solves issues....the lobotomy solves them all for you...just like Jesus ghost!

 

Strict religion is not a relationship with Christ. See: Pharisees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woes_of_the_Pharisees

 

Christianity is a religion.

 

Not to nok you, nobs...but there are clear delineations.