What are the questions you might ask to a religious person to crash their beliefs? You only have 5 questions to ask.
If I told you exactly the same story but changed the name of Jesus of Nazareth in 33 AD to Julian from Fire Island in 2011, would you still accept it as true?
I choose to not engage mentally deranged people in conversation.
I can't ask them 5 questions. My big things are that the bible as we know it came into existence around 336 AD. What does that do to your faith when it is 300 years after the time of Jesus whom, by the way, was not a Christian.
My second item in religion is that we do not know a birth and death for this man Jesus. We celebrate his resurrection from death on Easter every year, and just like Passover, Easter has a changing date. Did Jesus arise again on March 30th or on April 19th? How many times did he die and come back?
Lastly, I find it absurd that Saul of Tarsus (Paul) is credited with writing most of the NT when the man did not even know Jesus and also never met him. Just reading the books of the NT show that people also had a lot of problems with Paul in his own time as well. That also includes Jesus followers.
Paul teachings is directly opposite than Jesus. Jesus taught that you don’t change anything about the law and Paul taught Jesus frees us from the Law. You are right Jesus followers thought Paul was a heretic
@abyers1970 Paul was viewed by many as the Antichrist. Today the Evangelicals praise Paul and they do not think the Antichrist has appeared yet. Often you hear them talk of "a type of" or a "forerunner" when they talk of the Antichrist. This is all because they feel their bible is predicting things. Most of us know that it is not..
@DenoPenno Any prophecies that are fulfilled are so vague that it doesn’t mean anything. Kinda like me prophesying that it will rain in the next month or that there will be car accidents in the next week
Nope,nope, nope, i prefer to Mind My Own Business & hope they do too!
I would just ask them to watch this film. I was a 30 year Christian and this film shook my beliefs to the core. It’s hard to argue with cold hard facts. This was done in a very factual way.
If I may ask, respectfully, what were you getting out of your participation that kept you involved for 30 years?
@skado Actually for the most part my religious experience was good. I made some friends and fellowship was good. I stayed in a miserable marriage with a narcissist because of my religious beliefs. She was an addict and I thought god would heal her. One day I just woke up to realize how wrong I was about her and the marriage. I said to myself if I was wrong about her what else am I wrong about. So I challenged everything in my life including religion. I just went where the evidence led me.
@abyers1970
Sorry for your losses, but
I'm glad you're free from it now, neighbor.
I wouldn't ask any unless a person was questioning their faith. Their belief is based on just that, faith, not reason or logic even though they might think so. Absent an interest on their part, I'd just be wasting my time. If a person is strongly religious I will have little or no interest in spending meaningful time with them. They might be great as a person, but the world views are just too different to interest me.
Prayer.
God is doing something. It doesn't matter what the something is, as far as this question goes. You pray. God hears your prayer, changes his mind, and does something else that is notably different from what he was doing.
So what's going on here? Is it:
God was initially doing something wrong, but didn't know that until you told him - in which case god is not all knowing,
God was initially doing something wrong, and knew it, but couldn't do the right thing until you prayed - in which case god is not all powerful, and somehow your prayers grant god new powers that he didn't have,
God was initially doing something wrong, and knew it, and could have done the right thing but chose not to until you prayed - in which case god is actively choosing to do what he knows is wrong, which means he cannot be a good god, or
God was initially doing what was right, but your prayers pursuade him to change his mind and do something that isn't right - in which case your prayers are fundamentally and inherently wrong and damaging.
I cannot see any other option. It's got to be one of those four.
Those who pray don't for a second consider. How narsasistic & self absorbed they are . That the great omnipotent & almighty creator of heaven & earth . Is listening to my thoughts & desires.. I alone have the ear of the deity I imagine. . While the millions of others consumed in prayer , falls on deaf ears.
Prayer must save in therapist bills.. Not as effective but a placebo in any effect. Amen & Awomen ..
If I knew how to separate a fanatic from his fantasies I'd use that technique to separate Trumpanzees from their messiah.
Q. 1 - God being a Non-Corporeal Entity beyond ALL Time, Space and Matter writes a book, a book made up of Matter, i.e. either pulped papyrus or treated skin, So, WHERE, HOW, WHEN and WHY did this ENTITY come to realize that such things as books, papyrus scrolls/parchments actually existed and writing upon them would also convey to others ( that did NOT exist at the time btw) the thoughts and words of this Entity?
Q.2 - "In the Beginning there was the word and the word was with God, " -Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1, Line 1, SO , a) what was this word, how exactly was this word produced/spoken by an Entity with no physical form, vocal cords, etc, etc, No atmosphere for the vibrations of the vocal to create and reproduce the sounds (vibrations) made by these vocal cords,
Q.3 - This Entity, living alone in absolute nothingness beyond ALL time, Space and Matter DECIDES to create EVERYTHING from this absolute NOTHINGNESS, How is that done,
Q.4 - This self-same Entity suddenly realizes that EVERYTHING around it is just Darkness, So, IT decides to create LIGHT BUT does NOT create a source of that LIGHT until much later, WHY and HOW,
Q.5 - SINCE humans and Human languages have NOT yet been created/invented in WHAT language/script was this BOOK written?
Jeebus, Triphid, I glanced at your reply and thought it was @Kapell....you feeling okay?
@AnneWimsey yep, fine and dandy for an old bloke.
He wanted 5 questions so he got 5 questions.
I have never heard anyone say that thinking is easy, it is not easy. Religious beliefs require no effort beyond the recitation of passages from a so-called holy book and or the singing of religious nursery rhymes. Why did you choose to suspend critical thinking and anaesthetize your mind with religion?
To any Christian: why do you accept the absurd claims of the Bible?
To any non-Christian: where is your falsifiable evidence to support your existence claim of your god or gods?
So two human beings copulate and make an immortal soul?
Just one question. Would a real God come up with the platypus? I mean really!
No, pretty sure he would have put wings on it also.
If I was a god, I totally would! Except I'd make them bigger. And more venomous.
#1. Does your religion have anything to do with helping widows and orphans while avoiding worldly corruption?
Religion ... pure and faultless is this: to help widows and orphans in need and avoiding worldly corruption. James 1:27
#2. Does your religion support government issued identification for buying and selling for taxation, capitalism slavery and government control?
and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath [government issued identification with secret numbers only known for transaction purposes] Revelations 13:17
#3. Does your religion support invasion of foreign lands and raping it from the original indigenous inhabitants calling them such as Mexicans, indian and native American?
#4. Does your religion provide that everyone on Earth is able to enjoy the one major thing that separates homo sapiens from any other, that being intellectual capabilities to freely enjoy all knowledge, understanding, wisdom, skill, craft, trade and college certification of every kind free from tuition, free from loans, free from any fees?
#5. Does your religion provide free medical for everyone on Earth so that everyone can receive all the most current medical services, treatments, healthcare and healing services free from any cost, free from any fees or free from any indebtedness so that everyone can live healthy lives getting the services they need when they need it?
i wouldn't be asking religious ppl anything, but
No son of man may die for another's sins
how does this bible v fit with your beliefs, also
No one has ever gone up to heaven...
There is only one immortal...
He who seeks to save his life/soul shall lose it
No one knows where they go when they die
All go to the same place
i guess thats six, but again you might be careful where you quote these,
Christians hate the Bible with a passion, and you might even die ok
not joking