tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post8968806134068171674..comments2024-03-04T10:43:03.201+00:00Comments on The Reason Stick: Save A PrayerCrispian Jagohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16834942943012382473noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-5017358072512857002010-02-03T03:45:36.917+00:002010-02-03T03:45:36.917+00:00I'd really hate to be one of "those"...I'd really hate to be one of "those" people, however unlike things like homeopathic medicine, nostradamus predictions, astrology etc which have a quantifiable high margin of error, most theologies like philosophies do not make physical predictions. Now there are certainly some religions you can rule out by reason and logic, 7th day adventists, clearly. However there are simply not enough claims of physicality to disprove most religions. The only other method which you can use is internal contradiction, which is to say that there is one part of the faith which negates the other. It cannot be something which you feel is a contradiction to something you consider to be an axiom of truth because it claims that it IS the axiom of truth, and resultantly you are forced to fight in its playground. Experimental proof of this can easily be found by trying to debate with a relativist or a true nihilist. <br /><br />The fundamental problem is that you are attempting to use an experimental based science, to disprove a non-physical subject. You cannot disprove it as much as it cannot be proven true. It's purely theory, like the idea of the Atom in greek times. <br /><br />Recognize in respect of the fact that he is your friend that there is technically an area of unprovability; and also quite probably many true things in his religion which you have chosen to take a blind eye to in light of the physically unexperimental nature of the ideology. <br /><br /><br />Us engineering majors, always the "conservative" ones. lawdy lawdyVashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10790682886197794590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-47680855632963472542010-01-04T01:01:03.184+00:002010-01-04T01:01:03.184+00:00I love this line "I’ll leave offense as the b...I love this line "I’ll leave offense as the blackmail weapon of choice for the believers." I am continually amazed by the presumptive deference demanded by the religious! Some of my loved ones think nothing about wearing various Jesus slogans on their t-shirts - but where I to wear an atheist shirt I would be the provocateur.Gerald Guildhttp://geraldguild.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-46478562399317896042010-01-03T20:56:35.503+00:002010-01-03T20:56:35.503+00:00You should think yourself lucky.
The kind people...You should think yourself lucky. <br /><br />The kind people at Genesis TV actually started <a href="http://howardconder.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">another blog</a> to have a go at me over <a href="http://www.hudson.nu/blog/2009/04/genesis-tv-and-revelation-tv.html" rel="nofollow">my article about them</a>.Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08553269136334585652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-11068567180263473572010-01-03T16:56:58.325+00:002010-01-03T16:56:58.325+00:00At my last Alpha meeting before christmas I was pr...At my last Alpha meeting before christmas I was prayed for because I was coming down with a cold. A few days later the cold had disappeared. Explain that Jago you unbeliever!!<br /><br />NDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-37477438585994021102010-01-02T17:19:07.982+00:002010-01-02T17:19:07.982+00:00I like the more honest phrase: "I'll be t...I like the more honest phrase: "I'll be thinking of you."The Super Sweet Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14216670522896076392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-34975484931524753602010-01-02T17:02:40.478+00:002010-01-02T17:02:40.478+00:00"clear thought and logic over blind adherence..."clear thought and logic over blind adherence to pre-enlightened myths" ...hmmm pop round next time you're in Durham and insult me to my face.<br /><br />Your other christian friend.Pignosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084522496454654836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2940570413170689012.post-82285164386928689192010-01-02T16:59:21.741+00:002010-01-02T16:59:21.741+00:00Wonderful. I have the feeling I'm going to nee...Wonderful. I have the feeling I'm going to need a link to this next time I'm in a thoroughly patronizing and annoying conversation . . .Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217937730862636923noreply@blogger.com