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541  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 06, 2021, 03:28:32 PM

The Bible says stuff about earth. Lots of books do. People go to movies to watch things way more vile than what the Bible talks about.

The Bible also says that some people reject what the Bible says, to their own damnation. Such a vile book, because it is trying to bring jokers like you to eternal life in heavenly joy with God and the rest of the saints.

Actually, at the judgment, when you see the righteousness of God giving you what you asked for... Hell... won't make it any less painful there... except for the tiny bit of satisfaction in knowing that God is good enough to unbelievers that He gives even them what they asked for.

Cool

And back to physical threats, when everything else fails.

You cannot hurt someone who is dead already.  Just like you cannot anger a rock.

Imagine that you didn't pay your property tax. Normally government doesn't, out of the blue, come and take your property and throw you out of your house onto the street. Normally they give you fair warning first, in the form of letters and a court trial.

God's government has given you fair warning. After all, you don't know what goes on with your life after you die. You might say "Nothing goes on with life after death. You're dead." But consider. If you live to be 80-y-o, haven't you pooped out your body several times over, replacing the dead cells with new ones, built from what you ate and breathed in? The last time your life is simply stripped of all the physical stuff, and is held in darkness (for people like you) but in a temporary body, in paradise (an intermediate place for believers until the final end of all things in the judgment).

But there are a few scientists in this realm that are recognizing that life here isn't the end, and that God does exist. Google "nassim gaia" (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=nassim+gaia&ia=web) to find out that the things you call logic and science are way too inadequate to see the life beyond death, and that you have a stupid religion going for yourself in believing atheism.

Realize that it is you harming yourself, and that what I and the Bible say are simply fair warning.

Cool

Nassim Haramein is not a physicist.  His wild conjectures have been debunked ad nauseam.

He is a salesman, peddling his ideas to unsuspected, scientifically ignorant minds.
542  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 05, 2021, 02:37:12 PM

Maybe because I know for sure that there is no life after death.  Life and death are mutually exclusive.

You are correct about no life after death, only that there is judgement after death according to what the bible says in the book of Hebrews 9:27. I know you do not believe the bible or read it any more but am only stating that part in case you missed it. It means that once someone dies they do not have another opportunity to adjust their way and attitude until the day of judgement.

I don't care what supernatural stories some Bronze Age psychopaths conjured up.

BTW, the Bible also says animals can talk, Earth is flat and 6000 years old.  
It supports slavery, discrimination of women, killing of gays, killing of children, cannibalism.  

Why would any decent human being care what the Bible says is beyond me?

It is a nasty, vile book that everyone should actually read.

Your book does not scare me.  When death is here, I am not.  When I am, death is not.


The Bible says stuff about earth. Lots of books do. People go to movies to watch things way more vile than what the Bible talks about.

The Bible also says that some people reject what the Bible says, to their own damnation. Such a vile book, because it is trying to bring jokers like you to eternal life in heavenly joy with God and the rest of the saints.

Actually, at the judgment, when you see the righteousness of God giving you what you asked for... Hell... won't make it any less painful there... except for the tiny bit of satisfaction in knowing that God is good enough to unbelievers that He gives even them what they asked for.

Cool

And back to physical threats, when everything else fails.

You cannot hurt someone who is dead already.  Just like you cannot anger a rock.
543  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Abortion should be banned. on: November 05, 2021, 02:32:35 PM
Abortion should be banned.


That's stupid, banning abortions. Rather make a law that everybody who willingly took part in an abortion prior to and starting January 1, 2021, is to be executed, - no grandfathering - except...

if they willingly turn themselves in by January 1, 2022, it's commuted to a consecutive 20-year sentence with hard labor, for every abortion they partook of.

Then hunt the rest of them down and execute them for murder.


Cool

Your sky daddy would be proud.

What about women who abort naturally?  Chop their heads too?

Hey Marat, slow down.
544  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: November 05, 2021, 02:25:27 PM
much of science is based on engineering that made it work

Engineering is a form of applied science. This is why it is vital that engineers understand the laws of physics, and particularly the laws of Newtonian mechanics. You can't be an engineer without understanding how forces work.

In general, theory comes before application. Science comes before engineering. It's not the other way around, as you believe. Engineers don't just magically build stuff that works, and then invite scientists to have a look to work out how they did it. This is why, for example, no-one built a Tesla car in medieval times. Engineering is based on science.


science [...] doesn't work.

Scientific theories are falsifiable, yes, that's a fundamental strength that sets it apart from, say, religion. If the theory doesn't work in practice, that simply adds to our understanding, and helps scientists to devise new, better theories. If it does work, then it is reproducible, and anyone with sufficient expertise can verify this.

These are some of the reasons why some atheists hate religion. Religions are reasonably solid. And pure Bible religion is perfectly solid. Atheists hate religion because their atheism religion - which is often based on various science religions - offer no hope. The atheist knows he is going to die, and that without hope of resurrection. And he's willfully ignorant enough that he won't go to the true, solid, Bible based, Christian religion, where he not only gets salvation, but the knowledge of it, as well. Self enragement against something he is willingly accepting as a good thing. Atheists don't make sense in their religion, atheism.

Cool

What you consider 'solid' is scientific nonsense and has a moral compass of a serial killer.

Angels on your body, ROFL.
545  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 03, 2021, 01:23:27 PM

Maybe because I know for sure that there is no life after death.  Life and death are mutually exclusive.

You are correct about no life after death, only that there is judgement after death according to what the bible says in the book of Hebrews 9:27. I know you do not believe the bible or read it any more but am only stating that part in case you missed it. It means that once someone dies they do not have another opportunity to adjust their way and attitude until the day of judgement.

I don't care what supernatural stories some Bronze Age psychopaths conjured up.

BTW, the Bible also says animals can talk, Earth is flat and 6000 years old. 
It supports slavery, discrimination of women, killing of gays, killing of children, cannibalism. 

Why would any decent human being care what the Bible says is beyond me?

It is a nasty, vile book that everyone should actually read.

Your book does not scare me.  When death is here, I am not.  When I am, death is not.
546  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 03, 2021, 02:04:58 AM

Why do you ask that? Everybody knows that snakes have a hissing speech.

We are so dumb. WE are devolving. Adam and Eve could understand the speech of snakes. We can't.

Cool

"Hissing speech", what the fuck is that? - Comne on! Dogs talk by barking. Some animals talk by growling. Some snakes talk by hissing.

Adam and Eve were linguistic herpetologists and used specially constructed amplifiers? - Back in the beginning, 7,500 years ago, everything was a lot healthier... different. The Bible record says Adam lived 930 years. His hearing abilities were much better than ours. So was his understanding for understanding the languages of the animals. And what Eve didn't have naturally, Adam taught her.

Do you know the size of the snake's brain?  Do you know that snakes can only hear in the 100-200 Hz range? - But we don't know what things were like that could make a person live to 930 years. So we don't know how much more glorious snakes were back then. After all, they even had legs back then.

Human consonants are in the 2000-5000 Hz range, while vowels are in the 500-2000 Hz.

How the heck did that snake hear and understand what Eve was saying to him?  Was she hissing to him in low frequency? - Answered that already. Seventy-five hundred years ago, things were a lot healthier. And we can't begin to guess what it was like, because it was before sin had entered the world.

BTW, the Bible says the snake spoke to her, not hissed to her.  LOL.  Genesis 3:4  

So take this up with your God.  That is what he said.  Snake talked to Eve.  LOL.

You just can't understand that when you talk by hissing, that's the way you talk. Some people might understand your hissing noises - your hissing speech - others might not.

Wake up a little. All you are doing is talking yourself out of your atheism religion.


Cool

A few thousand years ago people were a lot sicker than now.  The average life span was 35 years.  People were dying like flies.

Animals communicate by various means, but only humans developed vocal language.

Snakes do not talk, never did.  The Bible is a fairy tale.  God is a Bronze Age fictional character, along with the talking snake or donkey.


547  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 02, 2021, 08:27:41 PM

So you think logic and reason can solve it all? No atheism there. Just a logic/reason false god.

Cool

What is the alternative? A made-up solution to all unknowns?

At least with logic and reason, it guarantees us that whatever we discover will be either factual or pretty close to it.

Science is a constant work in progress.

There will always be something we don't know, something that can be discovered.

With God and religious dogmas, you don't need to investigate anything, you already have the answers to all your questions:
"God did it." or "God works in mysterious ways."



Some people suggest that there are some 3,000 gods out there. You made up a new one - logic and reason. So, take your pick, or make up another new one. Guess what 3,000-gods shows us. People are religious beings. It's in their nature.

So, look at all the logic and reason that has changed over the centuries. Doesn't sound very god-like to me. Especially since we still use some of Aristotle's and others' logic and reason.

Of course science is a work in progress. Consider all the astronomy that is guesswork, because we haven't gone to the ends of the universe to see if it's really true or not. Science, a really weak god, except sometimes when we use it to handle things right around us. Why not accept the Bible records for what they are... eye witness reports.

You are wrong about religious dogmas. They are built on direct understandings from some religious ideals.

A microbe doesn't understand us we are so much greater than it is. God is far greater than we are. He has revealed Himself and the universe to us in the Bible. But...

Read Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 to 7, and realize that it is parables. Why is it parables? Because Jesus, Himself, said in other places that He only used parables when He spoke to the people, but He explained everything to His disciples, plainly. So, go to all those parables, and figure out the non-parable explanation for each. If you do that one thing, you will have a tiny explanation of what God is telling you. If you don't do this, it's easy to sit around and say, '"God did it." or "God works in mysterious ways."'.

No atheism. Simply frustrated people like you, because they won't believe the revelation the whole Bible shows us.

Cool

Can snakes speak?


Why do you ask that? Everybody knows that snakes have a hissing speech.

We are so dumb. WE are devolving. Adam and Eve could understand the speech of snakes. We can't.

Cool

"Hissing speech", what the fuck is that?  

Adam and Eve were linguistic herpetologists and used specially constructed amplifiers?

Do you know the size of the snake's brain?  Do you know that snakes can only hear in the 100-200 Hz range?

Human consonants are in the 2000-5000 Hz range, while vowels are in the 500-2000 Hz.

How the heck did that snake hear and understand what Eve was saying to him?  Was she hissing to him in low frequency?

BTW, the Bible says the snake spoke to her, not hissed to her.  LOL.  Genesis 3:4  

So take this up with your God.  That is what he said.  Snake talked to Eve.  LOL.
548  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 01, 2021, 09:38:49 PM

So you think logic and reason can solve it all? No atheism there. Just a logic/reason false god.

Cool

What is the alternative? A made-up solution to all unknowns?

At least with logic and reason, it guarantees us that whatever we discover will be either factual or pretty close to it.

Science is a constant work in progress.

There will always be something we don't know, something that can be discovered.

With God and religious dogmas, you don't need to investigate anything, you already have the answers to all your questions:
"God did it." or "God works in mysterious ways."



Some people suggest that there are some 3,000 gods out there. You made up a new one - logic and reason. So, take your pick, or make up another new one. Guess what 3,000-gods shows us. People are religious beings. It's in their nature.

So, look at all the logic and reason that has changed over the centuries. Doesn't sound very god-like to me. Especially since we still use some of Aristotle's and others' logic and reason.

Of course science is a work in progress. Consider all the astronomy that is guesswork, because we haven't gone to the ends of the universe to see if it's really true or not. Science, a really weak god, except sometimes when we use it to handle things right around us. Why not accept the Bible records for what they are... eye witness reports.

You are wrong about religious dogmas. They are built on direct understandings from some religious ideals.

A microbe doesn't understand us we are so much greater than it is. God is far greater than we are. He has revealed Himself and the universe to us in the Bible. But...

Read Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 to 7, and realize that it is parables. Why is it parables? Because Jesus, Himself, said in other places that He only used parables when He spoke to the people, but He explained everything to His disciples, plainly. So, go to all those parables, and figure out the non-parable explanation for each. If you do that one thing, you will have a tiny explanation of what God is telling you. If you don't do this, it's easy to sit around and say, '"God did it." or "God works in mysterious ways."'.

No atheism. Simply frustrated people like you, because they won't believe the revelation the whole Bible shows us.

Cool

Can snakes speak?
549  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 01, 2021, 05:06:52 AM

When you look at the powerful, ancient civilizations, you will find remnants of thousands of gods and religions. Many of them had the same religion you do, a religion of attempting to not have religion.

People don't know the future. They don't know if their car is going to get into an accident today, with them being killed. They don't know if their plane is going to crash. They don't know if Covid is going to get them. Some seek out the religions of gods and churches. Others seek out the religion of science and engineering. Others, "Whatever will happen, will happen. No use crying about it." Still others try to bury their minds in the religion of self-embraced ignorance. But all have religion, because they are religious beings, because nobody knows the future, and life is too scary to live without the security of something... a thing we call religion, which tells them that things will work out, so they don't go off the deep end.

Recognize this truth. Just because you had trouble with one religion, doesn't mean you stopped being human when you switched to the religion you have now... a religion of attempting to have no religion.

Cool

If you want a psychological crutch, pick something that is based on reason and logic.

If you want the truth, pick on something that is based on God. Reason and logic don't cut it. You can tell by all the reason and logic from the past that has had to have been redone, because it wasn't right.

Cool

I cannot because the concept of God is not based on logic and reason.

So you think logic and reason can solve it all? No atheism there. Just a logic/reason false god.

Cool

What is the alternative? A made-up solution to all unknowns?

At least with logic and reason, it guarantees us that whatever we discover will be either factual or pretty close to it.

Science is a constant work in progress.

There will always be something we don't know, something that can be discovered.

With God and religious dogmas, you don't need to investigate anything, you already have the answers to all your questions:
"God did it." or "God works in mysterious ways."

550  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Say NO to smoke detectors! on: October 31, 2021, 05:03:48 AM
This is huge. Just do your research people. Smoke detectors are actually being used by the deep state to emit mind controlling 6G gamma rays directly in to your brain while you are sleeping. Wake up sheeple! Don't buy in to the propaganda of Big Pharma Phire.

Say NO to Smoke Detectors!

Some people can't be reasoned with. They are SHEEP and can be identified by the following:

    LOVE smoke detectors
    Get vaccines
    Wear seatbelts
    Ride bicycles WITH HELMETS
    DO NOT STAB THEMSELVES

Definitely not satire


Yeah, bruh.  So sick.

My dog walker told me that the 6G affects the GABA receptors of the vaccinated people causing deformation of proteins and recombination
with mRNA fragments from the genetic treatment (aka Covid vaccine) and that this recombination cause slightly modified prions to be
supercharged as they cross the blood-brain barrier.  

Dr. DoLittle from spreadthetruth.org said that the vaccinated people have on average about 6 months before their nervous system will completely collapse from the electromagnetic overload.

He recommended supplementing one's diet with small amounts (4.5 to 5.5 mgr) of pure, organic arsenic, mixed with a glass of 0.1 M HCl to
neutralize the electrostatic fields around the prions.

Spread the truth!!! Jesus loves you!!! Angels on your body!!!
551  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: October 30, 2021, 04:31:35 AM
So I see 2 threads of why islam hates people or why people hate Islam. I dont see the point of such a mundane debate based on religion any debate for or against religion would be stupid. Either you are stupid to believe what a prophet / god / divine entity said or you are stupid enough to believe you can change the minds of the bleak minded people who follow such a prophet / god / divine entity.

But since its fun let me initiate my own brand of 'why do' topic.

WHY DO ATHEISTS (like me) HATE RELIGION ?

Seriously what has to happen in a person's life for them to seriously give up hope on the one true everlasting brand (of religion) which their ancestors have followed for generations.

Everyone has their own story even I have mine, so lets hear some of it.



Atheism or also called atheism is a view, they assume that God does not exist. Atheists are not something new, they have been around since around 1000 BC.

They claim that religious people will think God is perfect, but often portray this in contradictory and incoherent ways. Many characteristics are associated with God, some of which are impossible and some combinations are just as impossible in their realistic mind.

I have never met any theist who could provide a clear definition of what God is.  Not what it did, what it does, or who he is?

What is God composed of?  Give me its chemical composition or forever shut up about this fictional character.
552  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: October 29, 2021, 04:16:02 PM
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Nope. "Science" means "knowledge" in Latin (well, "scientia" did). As that, not being able to prove the existence of a given deity (or even of all deities) doesn't mean deities don't exist. Religions should be able to prove their respective god's existence, while atheism should be able to prove no gods actually exist. Until then, this is gonna remain a philosophical matter.

We can only disprove the specific claims.

For example: 
1. World was created in 6 days.
Why is it false: Universe is at least 13.8 billion years old.

2. Jesus was resurrected.
Why is it false: Cell death is an irreversible process.

3. Snake talked in the past.
Why is it false: The anatomy of snakes prevents them from being able to talk.

4. Earth was created 10,000 years ago.
Why is it false: Human-made artifacts older than 30,000 have been found.  The evolution of life on Earth has been going on for at least 3.5 billion years.

5. Muhammad flew on Buraq to ...
Why is it false: Horses do not have wings and cannot fly.  Human and horse gametes would not produce viable offspring.

A general claim that X exists cannot be proven or disproven.  Most people who say that X exists do not even know how to define X.
And when they do, their definition usually differs from the definition given by other people who are convinced that X is something else.
553  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: October 29, 2021, 02:18:17 AM

When you look at the powerful, ancient civilizations, you will find remnants of thousands of gods and religions. Many of them had the same religion you do, a religion of attempting to not have religion.

People don't know the future. They don't know if their car is going to get into an accident today, with them being killed. They don't know if their plane is going to crash. They don't know if Covid is going to get them. Some seek out the religions of gods and churches. Others seek out the religion of science and engineering. Others, "Whatever will happen, will happen. No use crying about it." Still others try to bury their minds in the religion of self-embraced ignorance. But all have religion, because they are religious beings, because nobody knows the future, and life is too scary to live without the security of something... a thing we call religion, which tells them that things will work out, so they don't go off the deep end.

Recognize this truth. Just because you had trouble with one religion, doesn't mean you stopped being human when you switched to the religion you have now... a religion of attempting to have no religion.

Cool

If you want a psychological crutch, pick something that is based on reason and logic.

If you want the truth, pick on something that is based on God. Reason and logic don't cut it. You can tell by all the reason and logic from the past that has had to have been redone, because it wasn't right.

Cool

I cannot because the concept of God is not based on logic and reason.
554  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: October 29, 2021, 02:15:16 AM
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God created the earth with a canopy of water around it. Why? to keep cosmic rays out, so people wouldn't be harmed by them. The Great Flood of Noah's day destroyed the canopy of water, and now we have C-14 and a much shorter life span, from?... cosmic rays.
...

Finally, we are getting closer to the inner depths of your psychosis.
555  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: October 28, 2021, 07:21:00 PM

Let's just say that it's 8,000 years.

Well, we don't have anybody who has gone back to even 5,000 years to count tree rings, and to observe them being laid down one per year. We don't know that trees back at 5,000 years didn't lay down 10 rings a year for a 500 year period, or maybe, only 1 ring every 10 years for a 500 year period. And we don't know if the cosmic energy that makes C-14 wasn't the cause for lesser or greater C-14 AND lesser or greater numbers of tree rings per year for certain time periods.

Because of this, the carbon dating science is all assumptions. If scientists and books said, "We assume, based on da da da," It would be okay. But the emphasis is that this science is fact when it's only assumption. Such makes it to not be science at all, but rather, fable... with emphasis on the Bull.

In fact, that's how scientists treat a whole lot of things. They form a hypothesis, and find a way that the hypothesis could be real. But they ignore or pooh, pooh all kinds of things that show that reality could easily be a whole lot different. To see that this is true, take a look at some of the other things that Graham Hancock shows us at https://grahamhancock.com/.

Cool

Carbon 14 half-life is 5730 years.  Carbon-14 dating is reliable to about 3 half-lives or about 18,000 years. Isotopes of other elements can also be used to estimate fossil ages beyond 20,000 years.  Potassium 40 half-life is 1.28 billion years.

BTW, tree rings mark the end of summer.  See summerwood/latewood.

For a tree on this planet to grow 10 rings a year, you would have to have an environment with 10 summers/fall/winter/springs a year, and a 10 fold increase in Sun activity, LOL.  You are basically talking nonsense.



Basically and simply I am saying that nobody knows what happened in the distant past.

We don't know if C-14 wasn't dumped onto the earth in large quantity from a meteorite or not. We don't know if God created all the C-14 on the 4th day 7,500 years ago, just to make things work, or not.

We don't know if in the distant past, tree rings were formed every week... or if the times they were formed varied or not.

Cool

If a meteorite brought large amounts of C-14, it would be locked in rocks in the impact area, not in everything that contains carbon.

Instead, isotopes exist naturally in specific ratios.  That is why this dating method is extremely useful.

BTW, 'God' created jack squat.  Carbon-14 atoms are formed in the atmosphere from Nitrogen.  They are absorbed by plants, and subsequently, end up in every living thing.

http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~jaj/nucleo/
 
556  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: October 28, 2021, 07:05:35 PM

You truly think I did not try.  I was an altar boy. I believed in every bit of the stories in the Bible.  Until I turned 12.  From that point on, the Bible made less and less sense.

Now, when I open the Bible, it is just to point out to guys like you, that these Bronze Age stories do not make one iota of sense.

It is impossible to read the Bible and not realize what it is.  You have to be completely ignorant of the scientific facts to accept any of the
stories as truths.  10,000 years old, flat Earth, talking snakes, making humans out of dirt, or human bones, making plants before the Sun, or bacteria.  Virgin pregnancies?  Hell or heaven concepts, resurrection, three Gods in one, etc.  Not to mention the moral code, slavery, prostituting your own daughters, misogyny, discrimination of women and gays, cannibalism, killing children, killing whole tribes, the list goes on...

The Bible is a vile book written by primitive psychopaths over the course of 2,500+ years.  It should be studied and ridiculed for what it is.


You have told us your personal church history in the past. You switched your religions - Roman Catholic to man-made science - because you wanted to, not because Bible truths don't make sense.

The Bible is a wonderful book. It shows the love of God for you, in the fact of the life, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God's Son, for you. God is trying to give you eternal life, through His Son Jesus. And it pains Him that all that you seem to want to do is throw your life away.

You are on the verge of making a new start. The Catholic Church is not the right place. Nor is man-made science. Your better bets are Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, or one of the many non-denominational curches.

Cool

You still do not understand.  I do not need religion to feel content with my life, or have a purpose in life.

I find these religious cults repugnant, insincere, and childish.

Maybe because I know for sure that there is no life after death.  Life and death are mutually exclusive.

The chemical elements and the energy stored in the chemical bonds in your body are just recycled.  That is it.

You are wasting your time.

When you look at the powerful, ancient civilizations, you will find remnants of thousands of gods and religions. Many of them had the same religion you do, a religion of attempting to not have religion.

People don't know the future. They don't know if their car is going to get into an accident today, with them being killed. They don't know if their plane is going to crash. They don't know if Covid is going to get them. Some seek out the religions of gods and churches. Others seek out the religion of science and engineering. Others, "Whatever will happen, will happen. No use crying about it." Still others try to bury their minds in the religion of self-embraced ignorance. But all have religion, because they are religious beings, because nobody knows the future, and life is too scary to live without the security of something... a thing we call religion, which tells them that things will work out, so they don't go off the deep end.

Recognize this truth. Just because you had trouble with one religion, doesn't mean you stopped being human when you switched to the religion you have now... a religion of attempting to have no religion.

Cool

If you want a psychological crutch, pick something that is based on reason and logic.
557  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: October 27, 2021, 05:15:06 AM
the Old Testament is eye witness reports of what happened back to the beginning of Creation. The reason why you don't believe this is because you haven't studied about the kind of nation the nation of Israel really is

My background is in physics. I value results obtained through documented, logical and reproducible scientific experimentation... which after all is the basis of the modern world. Fantastical storytelling from thousands of years ago, which has been filtered through countless generations, and which lacks even the slightest scrap of evidence is, to me, somewhat less reliable.



Carbon dating is based on the way C-14 forms in the atmosphere, and is taken up by the plants as they absorb this C-14. The grand assumption is that it always happened the way it does now. But nobody knows enough about the distant past to KNOW that it happened this same way in the past. If it didn't, the ripples of C-14 that we measure could easily have been formed in greater or lesser quantities, thereby upsetting the whole carbon dating apple cart.

Carbon dating is extremely accurate, and is corroborated by results obtained from other methods, for example counting tree rings, which is proven to be consistent with carbon dating, back to I think around 8,000 years so far. But if we are talking about the age of the Earth, then the radiometric dating method would of course not use carbon. Radioactive decay is a known and well-understood process.

Let's just say that it's 8,000 years.

Well, we don't have anybody who has gone back to even 5,000 years to count tree rings, and to observe them being laid down one per year. We don't know that trees back at 5,000 years didn't lay down 10 rings a year for a 500 year period, or maybe, only 1 ring every 10 years for a 500 year period. And we don't know if the cosmic energy that makes C-14 wasn't the cause for lesser or greater C-14 AND lesser or greater numbers of tree rings per year for certain time periods.

Because of this, the carbon dating science is all assumptions. If scientists and books said, "We assume, based on da da da," It would be okay. But the emphasis is that this science is fact when it's only assumption. Such makes it to not be science at all, but rather, fable... with emphasis on the Bull.

In fact, that's how scientists treat a whole lot of things. They form a hypothesis, and find a way that the hypothesis could be real. But they ignore or pooh, pooh all kinds of things that show that reality could easily be a whole lot different. To see that this is true, take a look at some of the other things that Graham Hancock shows us at https://grahamhancock.com/.

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Carbon 14 half-life is 5730 years.  Carbon-14 dating is reliable to about 3 half-lives or about 18,000 years. Isotopes of other elements can also be used to estimate fossil ages beyond 20,000 years.  Potassium 40 half-life is 1.28 billion years.

BTW, tree rings mark the end of summer.  See summerwood/latewood.

For a tree on this planet to grow 10 rings a year, you would have to have an environment with 10 summers/fall/winter/springs a year, and a 10 fold increase in Sun activity, LOL.  You are basically talking nonsense.

558  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: October 27, 2021, 04:59:06 AM

You truly think I did not try.  I was an altar boy. I believed in every bit of the stories in the Bible.  Until I turned 12.  From that point on, the Bible made less and less sense.

Now, when I open the Bible, it is just to point out to guys like you, that these Bronze Age stories do not make one iota of sense.

It is impossible to read the Bible and not realize what it is.  You have to be completely ignorant of the scientific facts to accept any of the
stories as truths.  10,000 years old, flat Earth, talking snakes, making humans out of dirt, or human bones, making plants before the Sun, or bacteria.  Virgin pregnancies?  Hell or heaven concepts, resurrection, three Gods in one, etc.  Not to mention the moral code, slavery, prostituting your own daughters, misogyny, discrimination of women and gays, cannibalism, killing children, killing whole tribes, the list goes on...

The Bible is a vile book written by primitive psychopaths over the course of 2,500+ years.  It should be studied and ridiculed for what it is.


You have told us your personal church history in the past. You switched your religions - Roman Catholic to man-made science - because you wanted to, not because Bible truths don't make sense.

The Bible is a wonderful book. It shows the love of God for you, in the fact of the life, suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God's Son, for you. God is trying to give you eternal life, through His Son Jesus. And it pains Him that all that you seem to want to do is throw your life away.

You are on the verge of making a new start. The Catholic Church is not the right place. Nor is man-made science. Your better bets are Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian, or one of the many non-denominational curches.

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You still do not understand.  I do not need religion to feel content with my life, or have a purpose in life.

I find these religious cults repugnant, insincere, and childish.

Maybe because I know for sure that there is no life after death.  Life and death are mutually exclusive.

The chemical elements and the energy stored in the chemical bonds in your body are just recycled.  That is it.

You are wasting your time.
559  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: October 26, 2021, 11:02:39 PM
Even the Bible supports the view that Jesus's disciples stole his body, found someone similar and faked his wounds. - Here is where you are wrong. Nobody becomes a believer by reading and understanding the words of the Bible alone. Rather, the Holy Spirit uses the words of the Bible to work faith in the hearts of those who are too spiritually weak to resist Him. You and yours who have stronger spiritual strength, simply resist the work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit doesn't force anybody, but rather, gives everybody freedom (2 Corinthians 3:17). So, faith is God's doing, but unbelief is the doing of the unbelievers.

The Bible mentions that many people didn't recognize Jesus after his "resurrection" (Luke 24:13-35 or John 21). Even Mary Magdalena first didn’t recognize Jesus or his voice (John 20:15). - Mary had tears in her eyes, and her own crying in here ears. | The Luke section shows that recognition was hidden at first, but then it was given. | John 21 shows hat they recognized Jesus. How far away does anybody have to be before you can't tell who it is? They didn't have binoculars in those days.

Which is another way to admit that many shouted out: I knew Jesus. This man isn’t Jesus! <<< Which is a way to see that you are lying... or do you have that reference?

People who knew Jesus didn’t recognize him? Do you want better evidence that the resurrection was forged?
Peter: Couldn’t you find me a better imposter?
Marcus: The other said that he did not want to end up nailed on a cross like the real Jesus. When I told him that you had the keys to heaven and could grant him access, he just started laughing on my face and asked for more money. <<< Which is another way to see that you are lying... or do you have those references? They aren't in the Bible.

Then, they got rid of the fake Jesus (Being number 2 was bad enough with Jesus. No way I’m going to allow this with a sham one). - Cute story there. Billion and a half Christians around the world don't believe your story.

Followers: Where is Jesus?
Peter: He raised in body to the skies into heaven. We saw him.
Followers: Why didn’t Jesus raise in front of all? That would confirm his divinity, also to the Romans.
Peter: Shout up, Jesus left me this keys of heaven’s door! Where are your offers to me? Ahh, I mean, to Jesus.

Cute stories there. Billion and a half Christians around the world don't believe your stories.

All it is, is you and yours who have the spiritual strength to resist the gentle pleadings of the Holy Spirit, and are doing so. Change while you have the chance, or you will miss out on eternal life by your own wanting to.


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Cure stories indeed.

God created Adam then Eve, nobody else was there to witness it, yet someone wrote about it 'exactly' as it happened.
Conversations with the talking snake and all. - Witnesses: Father God, Son God, Holy Spirit God.

Another one, Jesus was resurrected, and someone wrote about it 60 years later. - His resurrection was prophesied hundreds of years before He was born... in the O.T.

How about Islam? Quran collection of poems was written 30 years after Muhammad died, by people who traveled around Saudi Arabia
and talked to people who knew some people who knew someone who saw Muhammad, and told them what he said.  Go figure. - The God of Islam is a different God than the God of the Bible. It's a false God. How do we know? It doesn't have Jesus as God.

How about Mormons?  Tablets were found by a convicted conman, who then lost them, but convinced people that they were there, pure gold and all. - As long as Mormons believe the Bible if there is a conflict between it and the Book of Mormon, great. Many science books are science fiction without God, to their destruction.

It is all the same shit, different packaging.  All 'divinely' inspired. LOL. - Actually, the God of the Bible is very real. But since you won't accept the evidence of creation, why should He waste any more time on you?

Word of God my ass.

Yep. His Word set your ass in place. But if you didn't have one, nobody would know. They'd think you were walking on your hands.

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EDIT: I shouldn't have been so harsh with you. I know you are trying to make sense of this life. It can be difficult, but... turn back to God and the Bible, and God will clarify everything for you. Blessings on you.

You truly think I did not try.  I was an altar boy. I believed in every bit of the stories in the Bible.  Until I turned 12.  From that point on, the Bible made less and less sense.

Now, when I open the Bible, it is just to point out to guys like you, that these Bronze Age stories do not make one iota of sense.

It is impossible to read the Bible and not realize what it is.  You have to be completely ignorant of the scientific facts to accept any of the
stories as truths.  10,000 years old, flat Earth, talking snakes, making humans out of dirt, or human bones, making plants before the Sun, or bacteria.  Virgin pregnancies?  Hell or heaven concepts, resurrection, three Gods in one, etc.  Not to mention the moral code, slavery, prostituting your own daughters, misogyny, discrimination of women and gays, cannibalism, killing children, killing whole tribes, the list goes on...

The Bible is a vile book written by primitive psychopaths over the course of 2,500+ years.  It should be studied and ridiculed for what it is.
560  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: October 25, 2021, 04:37:59 PM
Even the Bible supports the view that Jesus's disciples stole his body, found someone similar and faked his wounds. - Here is where you are wrong. Nobody becomes a believer by reading and understanding the words of the Bible alone. Rather, the Holy Spirit uses the words of the Bible to work faith in the hearts of those who are too spiritually weak to resist Him. You and yours who have stronger spiritual strength, simply resist the work of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit doesn't force anybody, but rather, gives everybody freedom (2 Corinthians 3:17). So, faith is God's doing, but unbelief is the doing of the unbelievers.

The Bible mentions that many people didn't recognize Jesus after his "resurrection" (Luke 24:13-35 or John 21). Even Mary Magdalena first didn’t recognize Jesus or his voice (John 20:15). - Mary had tears in her eyes, and her own crying in here ears. | The Luke section shows that recognition was hidden at first, but then it was given. | John 21 shows hat they recognized Jesus. How far away does anybody have to be before you can't tell who it is? They didn't have binoculars in those days.

Which is another way to admit that many shouted out: I knew Jesus. This man isn’t Jesus! <<< Which is a way to see that you are lying... or do you have that reference?

People who knew Jesus didn’t recognize him? Do you want better evidence that the resurrection was forged?
Peter: Couldn’t you find me a better imposter?
Marcus: The other said that he did not want to end up nailed on a cross like the real Jesus. When I told him that you had the keys to heaven and could grant him access, he just started laughing on my face and asked for more money. <<< Which is another way to see that you are lying... or do you have those references? They aren't in the Bible.

Then, they got rid of the fake Jesus (Being number 2 was bad enough with Jesus. No way I’m going to allow this with a sham one). - Cute story there. Billion and a half Christians around the world don't believe your story.

Followers: Where is Jesus?
Peter: He raised in body to the skies into heaven. We saw him.
Followers: Why didn’t Jesus raise in front of all? That would confirm his divinity, also to the Romans.
Peter: Shout up, Jesus left me this keys of heaven’s door! Where are your offers to me? Ahh, I mean, to Jesus.

Cute stories there. Billion and a half Christians around the world don't believe your stories.

All it is, is you and yours who have the spiritual strength to resist the gentle pleadings of the Holy Spirit, and are doing so. Change while you have the chance, or you will miss out on eternal life by your own wanting to.


Cool

Cure stories indeed.

God created Adam then Eve, nobody else was there to witness it, yet someone wrote about it 'exactly' as it happened.
Conversations with the talking snake and all.

Another one, Jesus was resurrected, and someone wrote about it 60 years later.

How about Islam? Quran collection of poems was written 30 years after Muhammad died, by people who traveled around Saudi Arabia
and talked to people who knew some people who knew someone who saw Muhammad, and told them what he said.  Go figure.

How about Mormons?  Tablets were found by a convicted conman, who then lost them, but convinced people that they were there, pure gold and all.

It is all the same shit, different packaging.  All 'divinely' inspired. LOL.

Word of God my ass.
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