I get it. Bill thinks this is holy war.
He's already issued his fatwa.
The whole "standing in the doorway" thing. I get it.
I don't hate the mention of god's name. Not at all. In fact, I came here looking to see if I could learn something. Oh brother! I learned all right.
I learned so far that:
A.) The whole idea of 'god' is no clearer to me than when I started looking for evidence, because, apparently nobody else really knows either.
B.) Anybody who says they DO know all about god is lying. Period.
C.) With very few exceptions, believers are like a big ol' bowl of Mueslix cereal. Whatever ain't nuts and flakes, is fruit, and,
D.) The one who dies with the most sheep wins.
I dunno if this is what BeeG wanted to teach me, but then that isn't what I asked him when I first got here. I asked him what *he* thought about god and religion. He has done nothing but duck-and-dodge the question since I asked it.
Nope, he just points to his book and chatters like a gibbon. Therefore, because he can't really give me any information that I can actually DO something with- (well, maybe besides joining up with a 'righteous' southern fundamentalist church and give them my money while we all stand around blocking doorways and stroke each other about how we can sin to our hearts' content and it's OK, 'cause we got our tickets punched for all eternity as long as we accept Jesus as our lord and savior and ask for forgiveness..) *I can drive a hundred miles an hour and not lose a drop of that savin' power/long as I got that plastic Jesus sittin' on the dashboard of my car....*
-I have to pretty much disregard what he tells me.
How can anyone learn from someone whose attitude is such that if you have to ask-You wouldn't understand?
Of course Bill is probably going to belittle me again like a good, righteous Christian and tell me I'm working for the devil because I'm thinking for myself and questioning his logic..
Sorry Bill, I'm not working for your devil. I don't believe in him. This isn't war. This is more like throwing rocks at retards-While it CAN be amusing for a short time-It still ain't right.
Hmm..Now that I think of it further-Maybe Bill DID answer the question I asked him-By pointing at his book. Maybe he's incapable of forming his own opinions and beliefs.
Where I come from, we call those kinda folks "zipperheads." (Unzip, add whatever you want to be in there-zip it back up.)
I guess this is what I get for asking the opinion of someone who is incapable of forming one.
I'm of the belief that ethics came before religion. I think people realized that they needed some rules to live by to improve the quality of their lives and because the simple folk at the time needed convincing, they needed some consequences to face for breaking those rules, the idea of an all-powerful, all-seeing 'ruler' was created *by man* to scare the savages into toeing the line.
That makes sense to me.
Oh. Yeah, Bill. How is it that people who don't blindly believe what YOU believe are in your own words, "Nothing?"
Who put YOU in charge of deciding what aspects of religion (of which atheism/agnosticism is one) are to be discussed in this forum?
I don't remember seeing "The Church Of Bill Gray. All others keep out." in the title of this forum....