Catholic Church has skeptic arrested for explaining miracle

[giblets]

And I guess JR's life has been a bed of roses. Good to know.

No, I won't be sad when I do go.

Oh, so you don't buy health insurance because you're hoping to die sooner?

[giblets]

And I guess JR's life has been a bed of roses. Good to know.

No, I won't be sad when I do go.

Oh, so you don't buy health insurance because you're hoping to die sooner?

[Ben Kenobi]

Oh, so you don't buy health insurance because you're hoping to die sooner?

Even Neitzsche gets it - that everything in this world will pass away in due time. I suppose I would think differently if I had dependents, in that case I would want to secure life insurance so that they would be provided for, and then make sure all of them had adequate health coverage.

[Uncle Sparky]

God is ONLY Lord over those who do his will?!!!!!! Are you kidding me?!

I'm a humanist and God or even GOD is not lord over me. Sorry to disappoint you. I've seen the man behind the curtain.

[Kidlicious]

God is ONLY Lord over those who do his will?!!!!!! Are you kidding me?!

No. I checked with the dictionary. And the definition of Lord is one who others obey.

[MOBIUS]

*Laughs at the most basic truths of why God doesn't exist: The fact that none of the religious people on this forum can agree on how to believe in him!

It's like the blind disagreeing with the blind...

[Kidlicious]

*Laughs at the most basic truths of why God doesn't exist: The fact that none of the religious people on this forum can agree on how to believe in him!

It's like the blind disagreeing with the blind...

Your thinking is like Imrans in that you believe that everyone will be on the same page with God. You've assumed that God will think just like you, which is absurb. We are not God's little minimes. And the fact that we aren't is not evidence that he doesn't exist. Sorry to disappoint.

[MOBIUS]

That's exactly what it is! The fact is that you're all running around blindly making stuff up because there is no direction from the big man himself - because he doesn't ****ing exist!!!

If he existed, there would be guildlines. You know, one central world religion, no more religious wars - that sort of thing... The fact is that no one has a ****ing clue, except for the parasites at the top of all the various splintered belief systems around the world feeding off the naive gullibility of morons like you.

To me that is the biggest arrogance of worshipping God there is - that you all basically choose the way to worship him and not the other way around. In fact some people (Imran) decide they don't want to worship him in a particular way and jump ships to a completely different belief system because it suits them better - maybe he fancied a bacon sandwich and found he could eat all the pork he wanted switching to Christianity!

[MOBIUS]

You're right Ben. All religions are equally bad.

"My made up religion isn't as bad as your made up religion - NYAH NYAH NYAH!"

[Imran Siddiqui]

CS Lewis (hardly an evangelical), asks us a simple question in Mere Christianity. "Who among us has been so loved by the world that he would want to stay?"

If it weren't for one special person in my life, there would be no point to me staying. The world is complete and total crap and I'll be happy to leave. Good riddance.

Revelation 21:1-5

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

While it shall be renewed, I hate to tell you this... but we're kind of staying here (or at least being resurrected here at & after the final judgement) - its not exactly heaven as the New Jerusalem comes from heaven to Earth (though at this point heaven & earth appear to become one again Eden-like).

[Elok]

Now that Moby has joined the thread to argue with BK and Kid, I think it officially qualifies as one of BFB's "Cripplefights", assuming it didn't before.

[Imran Siddiqui]

No. I checked with the dictionary. And the definition of Lord is one who others obey.

So if people chose not to follow a King - that king has no power over them? I'm sure the Catholics in Henry VIII's realm would have loved to know that!!

[Imran Siddiqui]

In fact some people (Imran) decide they don't want to worship him in a particular way and jump ships to a completely different belief system because it suits them better - maybe he fancied a bacon sandwich and found he could eat all the pork he wanted switching to Christianity!

Um... I was an atheist before I became a Christian.

[MOBIUS]

Um... I was an atheist before I became a Christian.

OK, I stand corrected, for some reason I thought you were a muslim. Or did you stop being a muslim for a while, became an atheist and then found Christianity? As an atheist, what was it that made you become religious?

[MOBIUS]

Now that Moby has joined the thread to argue with BK and Kid, I think it officially qualifies as one of BFB's "Cripplefights", assuming it didn't before.

I figured you needed a hand.