Who is Frank? Yes, mental decline is often at work among haters, cherry-pickers and the like.
See? You are bitter and militant. As posted previously I believe human history proves human beings have 3 components; mental, physical and spiritual. This is shown across all cultures around the planet. Young people lacking the spiritual component is one thing. Just part of growing up. Older people lacking this component strike me as lacking the ability like a color blind person can't see certain colors. It doesn't make them less human, but their inability becomes understandable.
Thanks for acknowledging my point that atheists here read the Bible as strictly and as literally as most nutjob Bible thumper do.
I never said there weren't substantial numbers of people and nut jobs who read the Bible as literal history and fact: I have named several of the groups - aka, atheists, Pentecostals, conservative Southern Baptists, right-wing evangelical Bible thumpers.
It's significant to upset you and your young cohort.
You truly are confused, aren’t you? I’m questioning YOU about your irrational beliefs. Trying to point out the obvious.
I don't think there is a legitimate scholar of antiquity on the planet who will say the books of the Bible collectively are a complete fabrication written by people with the intent to deceive.
You truly are willfully ignorant of where YHWH originated, aren’t you?
Only in your imagination. Hearing voices is a form of schizophrenia. Hearing holy voices is theological schizophrenia.
As you confessed earlier that you don't care about facts, statistics and demographics, but my humble recommendation is to separate people into different categories. Rational vs. Irrational is a good one. Educated vs. less educated is another. Experienced vs. inexperienced, mature vs. immature, male vs. female, and American vs. foreigner just a name a few. Once assessed, people are easier to figure out. This works well with religious fanatics and militant atheists alike.
Not even the birth story is reliable historic narrative, yet millions flock to Bethlehem every year, don’t they? Catholics and their Virgin Mother.
I don't know, ask someone who is an atheist.
I questioned your demographics, not dismissed them. And I truly don’t give a shit about them. In the context of this thread, rational vs irrational is a good start for sorting people out.As you confessed earlier that you don't care about facts, statistics and demographics, but my humble recommendation is to separate people into different categories. Rational vs. Irrational is a good one. Educated vs. less educated is another. Experienced vs. inexperienced, mature vs. immature, male vs. female, and American vs. foreigner just a name a few. Once assessed, people are easier to figure out.
You mentioned working with scientists. Psychological assessments also use the scientific method: observation, experimentation, and evidence-based reasoning. This is why your dismissal of demographics raised an eyebrow with me since you are denying data in pursuit of an emotional argument.
You have to use the tools of literary criticism to extract the reliable nuggets of historical information.
Where did I say I don’t care about facts? If you’re talking about your unverified demographics, they may or may not be fact. What they are to me is insignificant.
Agreed, yet young, militant atheists keep pushing that argument out of ignorance. IMO, they're just angry because growing up isn't easy.
Oh, so Gallup isn't fact but your opinions are. Fascinating!
My two cents is that somebody could read Luke, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Romans, Philippians and then you'll basically have all the tenets of Christian ethics and theology.
From the first cave paintings in France and Spain, it's pretty obvious that homo sapiens had an innate predisposition for the spiritual and transcendent.