In the year 2006 CE, we have millions of people trusting religions created thousands of years ago. I challenge anyone to prove the so called “prophecies” registered in the Bible as hearsay and delusion of man. Nothing that Jesus or the so called OT prophets said has a verifiable provable source. We have copies of copies without the proof of whom were the writers but the “canonization” of human religious leaders.Any reasonable person knows that you cannot prove anything without verifiable evidence. If the Bible, the Qu’ran or any religious book were on trial they would be not accepted for lack of provable evidence. The religious person argues the “truth” enclosed in their religious books to keep dreaming of afterlife next to their god. Nothing new but very old, something that can takes us to a journey that started on the dawn of humanity.
Unfortunately, believers don’t give a toss about empirical reality, so we can expect things to continue to chug-along like this indefinitely.
No sure what your point is. Seems to be something like, …bible old, …people dead, …no scientific evidence, …must be rubbish! It that all you are trying to say here?
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet, as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.
Each of those churches show certain books, which they call revelation, or the word of God. The Jews say, that their word of God was given by God to Moses, face to face; the Christians say, that their word of God came by divine inspiration: and the Turks say, that their word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from Heaven. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."
Thomas Paine
Well, now you are done telling us what you don’t believe maybe you could tell us what you do believe. If you’re a little shy, I’ll start you off…
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Skeptruth believes that his own intellectual rumblings are superior to those of every religious thinker who has walked the planet.
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Skeptruth believes that the moral code that he creates for himself is the best way to live life, and superior to every other person on the face of the earth.
How am I doing so far?
skeptruth is basically right, and the quote from Thomas Paine represents the biggest and best reason not to subscribe to any of the said organised religions.
Hi, Ned, I believe that you are probably one of the guys that form part of this group. Please let me know if you find yourself in the bunch, I won’t tell anyone, I will keep it a secret, I promise !!
atheists are not superior beings they are as old as churchs path
choosing to reject existance of one sense in the essence of all creations submitting times and all living system to itself is denying your reality of being reducing yourself to the needs of a mortel than illusionary robot body fuctionning alone is the attitude of very stupid head and inferior soul who has no strong sense of the unknown to force the head in giving it some thoughts so you must not feel proud saying you are atheist
you can doubt criticize wonder about the words of religions and religious preachs but any sensitive man will never be outside his one truth of God sense all artists knows and it doesn’t make for them any contradiction with not believing in any religions but their sense of fate and its means its signs they learned to listen and give to that is how real artist is very humble because he knows that is not him but his brain making his sense of true being in what it is receiving information of what is
i don’t like all what people do to be everyone want to be someone who makes a thing of what God did i see all that uninteresting for me as doubtinf of what i can in real so it would be the truth of what i am that i am working on to enjoy being
i think the major problem of all is the power everyone think wrongly that it will give him pleasure of being everyone want to control a reality made of things and others everyone seems to be so stupid and weak to think that is the only way to have peace i think the source of this problem is not only misery of depth i think it is related directly to the nature of God and that is how it is much more serious to say
i would keep on wishing that one happening i could see God doesn’t feel pleased of putting others on knees when you love yourself in a deep sense you would know how to see others as a real being like you so you will respect any man and more from whom you can read deepest means to life i wish one day God will stop want his superior sentiment of being so men will be happy in him just happy of being them no matter to make more no weak no strong no poor no rich just you and the love you give to yourself in loving another