I realize that this post is a bit old, but I started reading this thread and was absolutely sickened by the discussion. It's as if Jet isn't even speaking the same language as anybody else. TruCreation is almost as bad, but that can be left for later.
Jet: How about spewing your empty-headed dogma somewhere else... Try directly and succinctly answering a question put to you! I hope that this thread (because, admittedly, it is the only thread I've read here) is not indicative of your personality. You come off as some pompous, pseudo-intellectual ass. How can you act so condescending towards another human being asking a perfectly logical question of you?
Quoted from Jet (05-11-2002 02:18 PM):
For the most part, the people who use these types of excuses have never attempted to get familiar with God. Oh, to be sure, some will claim that they have tried, or that they used to believe, but the reality is that they never gave God a fraction of the attention that they willingly give to scientists and their everchanging theories. I personally thank God that I am not burdened with sorrow for thoses who are willingly lost and prefer darkness rather than light.
Perhaps the reason I am not burdened is because I have heard so many lame excuses as to why someone either doesn't believe in God, or doesn't believe the Bible is the Word of God, or doesn't believe that God would bother Himself with the lives of men and women, and yet these same people not only willingly, but gladly receive the latest theory of some scientist that they have never even heard of, let alone having ever met and spoken with them.
What you seem not to be burdened with is the critical analysis of the world around you. You don’t seem to be living on the same plane of reality as the rest of us earthlings. I’m sure that if it were left in the hands of people like you, Copernicus would have been drawn-and-quartered and we’d all be living in ignorant bliss of the FACT that the earth is not the firmament around which the sun, moon, and stars revolve. Is this the type of light you seek to bring to humanity through your stubborn assertions that some moldy, old tome is the infallible pinnacle of all knowledge?
If I asserted that invisible blue bunny-rabbits existed and you told me this was a ridiculous idea, would I dismiss your ‘lame excuses’ for not believing in the bunnies or never attempting to ‘get familiar’ with the bunnies as easily as you blow off others’ legitimate life philosophies? I wonder if I might not show a bit more Christian behavior towards my fellow man.
These scientists no one’s ever heard of, met, or spoken to have one major advantage over your god’s word their claims are supported by repeatable, documented evidence!
In fact, there is only one single part of your whole egotistical rant I agree with, and that’s your quote by Adolf Hitler: "If you tell a lie long enough and loud enough and often enough the people will believe it."
Christianity is the biggest, most widely perpetrated lie in the world, and you’ve obviously fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
(Excuse the length of my first post, I just couldn't sleep until I'd at least gotten THAT much off my chest.)
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