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Don't try to explain this to a religious person. They'll develop seizures.

ThorR 5 Dec 29
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You forgot "cancer mom". All of the Christian movies clearly state Atheist = Mom dead of Cancer.
Or, if you're a woman atheist, then YOU get the cancer. (side note, according to God's Not Dead, The Newsboys can pray that away.)

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a long time ago i redid this slightly so that the "social rebellion" box color wasn't so close to the correct color. here -- i did it over, and it took less than a minute:

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Very true for me. I copied it and posted it on Facebook.

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You could use the same exact meme for a thiest and say don't try to explain this to an atheist they'll have seizures. It's really funny that way.
In fact if I even mention the fact evolution is a strong indication of a progenitor. Blood vessels start popping.

Not if people actually understand evolution. There were six major extinctions before mamals became dominant (on land) and before humans even emerged. If he purpose was for humans, then it was like walking around the block to go next door.

@snytiger6 it wouldn't matter if there was 1,000 mass extinctions the sheer fact that life persisted and adapted through every one of those is evidence of design. Besides in the Christian faith he created the fish, then the birds, then mammals. Anyone familiar with modern theory of dinosaurs knows birds are dinosaurs.

@Biosteelman You kind of skip over the bit that if there were a creator, then man was more of an afterthought.

It is very easy to cherry pick facts to try to fit your beliefs. I'd hardly consider the Bible a godo source, as virtually all fo the stories can be traced to earlier beliefs from other religions, and every one of those previous religions had more than just one god (so who was the creator?) The bible says nothign of micro organisms, which existed far longer than multi celled creatures There is mentions of unicorns and other mythical creatures in the bible though..

There is also the unanswerable question of "who created the creator?"

Let's take a different approach and look at insects. who designs the tunnels of an ant colony or an insect mound? There is order to them, yet no inscts lives long enough to create an overall design. The design although similar to other colonies, is unique, but built piece meal over many generations ove time, with ech generations contributing a bit more and int the case termites into great structues relative to the size of individuals. The buildighn is random, yet the structure get built with no plan or panned design. No designer.

Life on earth is much the same way only on a much different (llarger/massive) scale. It is random, with no real designer. Just because there is a semblance of order (as in the termite mound) does not mean it had to be purposefully designed.

Just curious. Have you ever actually read "On The Origin of Species"?

@snytiger6 if you're gonna keep picking on the Bible specifically it was written by guys in a desert explaining the Universe to other guys in a desert. It is written to their knowledge of the world at the time. It would be like teaching geometric algebra to a preschooler. None of It would make sense and your entire purpose would be lost.

I have not read it in its entirety. But you do realize even after writing that book Darwin and every evolutionary scientist until The 60's were religious. Think about that for a while. The guy and other contributors who wrote and described evolution didn't think it unfolded their faith it only reconfirmed it.

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There is also the fact that theism and the ideas surrounding it are, for lack of a better term, stupid. I don't mean that in a pejorative "oh, that's stupid" way. I mean it lacks sense, all the way around. Generally I think I understand theistic beliefs...but occasionally I doubt that I really understand. I can imagine myself getting sucked into a cult, being prone to mass hysteria, etc., but even then, at a certain point when the belief doesn't connect with reality for a long enough period of time...I think I would get bored and move on, lol. I was deep into UFO/alien abduction mythology in the '90s, and I think the only way I recognized the emptiness of it all is because all the "evidence" always led no where we hadn't been before. You'd think if it were real, something new would come up eventually. But I guess boredom might motivate people to switch crazy beliefs also, so who knows.

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That's me. True blue. 🙂

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We could only hope.

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But...but...but...something terrible MUST have happened to you!

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You missed 'living off an entire diet of babies'

@ThorR You need to fry them twice.

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Sadly they wont. They will just give you several hours worth of nonsense that you have heard thousands of times before, and if you try to point out the faults with any of it, they will just stick their fingers in their ears. Then they will tell you that philosophical, historical and scientific methods are the wrong way to look at religion.

I wish that weren't true.

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