If God were real, you wouldn’t need a book

[gmark77]

ftfy

I know you're pissed out of your gourd right now, Cy. Maybe you can take a chill pill. Grow up. Recognize maybe you are a loser and a sub-intellectual. Get comfortable with your loser-dom, Dr. Google.

Or maybe talk to Doc. He's as good as your AI girlfriend.

 

[ZenMode]

A short little Youtube from a former evangelical pastor. Did the fire and brimstone shit for decades until he finally came to his senses. For those of you who are in denial or wish to remain willfully ignorant, he basically says this:

“Christians go in with their god as an assumption rather than a conclusion. When in fact, after close examination, the virgin birth falls apart, the resurrection falls apart, the basis of morality falls apart, the promise of afterlife fizzles into fear based marketing.”

“The gods of Islam, of Judaism, of Christianity only exist in scripture. If they actually existed, we wouldn’t need the books to claim they did. Once the book fails, the god goes with it.”

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/gI_OCjTkQG4?si=cyukCFBlj2u2kI4k

To put this another way....

If every Bible was wiped from the face of the earth, and all of our memories were wiped of any memory of Christianity, the Bible, Jesus, etc, Christianity would cease to exist forever. There's literally no evidence for the Christian God as the creator of the universe..

 

[domer76]

To put this another way....

If every Bible was wiped from the face of the earth, and all of our memories were wiped of any memory of Christianity, the Bible, Jesus, etc, Christianity would cease to exist forever. There's literally no evidence for the Christian God as the creator of the universe..

There’s literally no evidence of the Christian god. Period.

Nobody has seen, heard, nor spoken to it, or any god for that matter. There’s no evidence that prayers get answered. There’s no evidence of any afterlife. The Trinity was adopted after a fucking vote at Nicaea. On and on.

 

[gmark77]

To put this another way....

If every Bible was wiped from the face of the earth, and all of our memories were wiped of any memory of Christianity, the Bible, Jesus, etc, Christianity would cease to exist forever. There's literally no evidence for the Christian God as the creator of the universe..

I think that's the biggest point. True of any and all religions, but jarring to realize. That without someone writing it down there would be no way to infer the existence of Yahweh.

Given the outsized impact of our collected mythos on our society it is scary to realize it is all just made up by other humans just like us. People just accept in our society that someone has a legitimate "role" in our social network of standing in front of people and tell them what someone else made up.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

There’s literally no evidence of the Christian god. Period.

Besides Matt, the MAGAt drunk, who is arguing that there is?

 

[Cypress]

To put this another way....

If every Bible was wiped from the face of the earth, and all of our memories were wiped of any memory of Christianity, the Bible, Jesus, etc, Christianity would cease to exist forever.

Obviously if Jesus had never existed, or if he did and nobody documented what he said and did there would never be any Christiany.

It's hard to believe some posters see this as a profound revelation.

There would still be belief in a divine universal spirit if Jesus never existed.

There's literally no evidence for the Christian God as the creator of the universe..

There's no empirical evidence of infinity, the imaginary number i, or the natural right to liberty either.

Not all human knowledge is based on observation and sensory perception.

A lot of human knowledge is based on reason and logic.

If you're ever actually interested how Christian apologists logically infer God, read CS Lewis. You don't have to agree with it, but if you read it impartially I don't think you'll walk away from it saying CS Lewis is an irrational dunce with pathetically weak arguments.

 

[Hume]

Obviously if Jesus had never existed, or if he did and nobody documented what he said and did there would never be any Christiany.

It's hard to believe some posters see this as a profound revelation.

There would still be belief in a divine universal spirit if Jesus never existed.


There's no empirical evidence of infinity, the imaginary number i, or the natural right to liberty either.

Not all human knowledge is based on observation and sensory perception.

A lot of human knowledge is based on reason and logic.

If you're ever actually interested how Christian apologists logically infer God, read CS Lewis. You don't have to agree with it, but if you read it impartially I don't think you'll walk away from it saying CS Lewis is an irrational dunce with pathetically weak arguments.

Religion is a social practice. Some like it, some do not.

 

[Cypress]

Religion is a social practice. Some like it, some do not.

Why would Darwinian evolution equip us uniquely, out of all the life forms in Earth history, with an affinity for the spiritual and the transcendental?

I don't know the answer, but I've never heard a good one from anyone else that doesn't sound like just ad hoc guesswork