Here is an example (thanks to Mike J) of the kind of weird insanity that religion can instill (n.b. I am NOT saying all religious people are insane!). This chap has a proof of God's existence and is offering $10,000 to anyone who can refute it.
If you would like to make an attempt to disprove the proof for God, there is a forum where you can do so. $10,000 in U.S. dollars (getting cheaper by the day) has been reserved and offered to the first person who can disprove God's proof of Himself. Thousands have tried but failed. Since I am a child of God and thus, set before God with authority in His kingdom and bound for heaven, you can't ask for a better arbitrator. "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matt. 18.18). The proof of God has been loosed on Earth so it is loosed in heaven: well approved! Lots of attempts have been made on the forums, and also, read here.
Yes that's right the arbitrator and judge, stamped with Divine authority and approval, of whether you succeed in refuting the proof is, er, Troy himself. Well, good luck then....
If you would like to make an attempt to disprove the proof for God, there is a forum where you can do so. $10,000 in U.S. dollars (getting cheaper by the day) has been reserved and offered to the first person who can disprove God's proof of Himself. Thousands have tried but failed. Since I am a child of God and thus, set before God with authority in His kingdom and bound for heaven, you can't ask for a better arbitrator. "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matt. 18.18). The proof of God has been loosed on Earth so it is loosed in heaven: well approved! Lots of attempts have been made on the forums, and also, read here.
Yes that's right the arbitrator and judge, stamped with Divine authority and approval, of whether you succeed in refuting the proof is, er, Troy himself. Well, good luck then....
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Do these individuals not possess the slightest sense of irony? I'm always wary that these are parody sites, but for that a sense of satire would be necessary.
As opposed to the normal insanity that, say, being a soccer fan instills in you?
At least a soccer fan knows that his team lost, even if he believes that they didn't deserve to.
I wasn't trying to mock soccer fans, but you probably realized that. :) And good one - indeed a soccer fan realizes his team lost, and doesn't just deny it and look like a moron. That's why I like soccer more than religion.
Of course, 2000 years ago people like Paul would write letters describing how an angel of Satan was plaguing them, and how the resurrected Jesus would speak to him telling him to grin and bear it.
And nobody would dream of questioning his sanity, not even when he described how he went to the third Heaven.
By the way, the Jesus character tells how the Queen of Sheba would be raised from her grave to fulfill the important duty of condemning 1st century Jews for not believing Jesus.
So obviously in the 'Lord, Liar, Lunatic' trilemma, we can cross out Lunatic as a possibilty....
I agree. Troy had a tendency to jump around to various topics and refused to discuss the proof step-by-step. Eventually, he went off on a long preaching rant and I had to kick him from the chat room. In other words, I doubt it would be useful to open a dialogue with him.
If the need for an "objective third-party" to judge everything "fairly" exists, how can any subjective argument be won at all?
Why do people assume that in the absence of an obvious cause for some tremendous event, it definitely was God or was not caused at all? One question I struggle with, as a christian, is this: if God came into existence with the big bang and is less than omnipotent, is He less of a God than that which should be worshipped? I know, this is sort of like the bully on the playground idea, but I do wonder sometimes. My point, isn't it sort of silly to say "definitely" anything about an event we really have no knowledge of? Isn't all such thought just "best guess"?
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