Recent content by Skeptic44

(Sorry, ran past time limit for editing) What is the alternative? How do I rationally discuss the possibility that creatures "above human" on the scale of divinity exist? What could I possibly say that would advance this conversation? I see ONLY one proper response. This is a...

____________________ Just wanted to pull this one up, to show you what I was talking about.

________________ Now, what I'm seeing here is a "religion" that has, as part of ( ), ... humanity - ie, human beings, including me - is the lowest level of beings. God is in a separate category, at the top. But there is also a category between humanity and (God), composed of...

_____________________ First, nothing in my statements were repetitive. I always attacked the subject from an original perspective and, guess what.... it came out to the same result. Chapter 5 of Acts - Peter takes the bodies of two members of his cult outside and buries them, three hours...

_______________ I had an e-mail from Brian asking me not to describe Christianity as a con game or Jesus as a fraud any more. But I don't see how, in good conscience, I can respond to your post without using my brain. This stuff about "evil spirits like lility" floating around the...

____________ This certainly is the best answer I've ever received to this particular question. Bear with me for pulling out certain points... the sheer # of words in this tiny reply window is a bit baffling at times. I've seen the term "angels" described as less correct than "Messengers"...

_____________ That's one opinion. And a different opinion is that the OT was composed of books written by men who were separated by centuries in time, and their idea of "God" or "Elohim" actually changed over time. At one time, in some books, Elohim was one God among many, and not even...

_________________ I don't know what "several things that happened just at the right time to offset a single other thing" was that you mentioned, but... it certainly isn't enough to make me re-consider atheism. Let's take a winning Lotto ticket. The chances of your ticket winning is...

___________________ I would take it a step further. I would argue there is evidence that God does not exist. When American troops entered the underground torture chamber used by Uday Hussein and his comrades, they found skeletons of men who had been tortured, who spents weeks or months...

_____________ To start: Atheism is a religion. Atheism is the belief, without proof, that there is no such thing as a God, and ... as a first corollary.... the belief that any institutions (or individuals) which claim to be "ordained" or "given authority" by God are claiming something...

________________ Yes, it does. After you discover all the rules of natural selection - how many generations it takes for a mutation with a 1% increase in survival factor to spread through a population, what % of a population will have x mutation after 100 generations - you come up with a...

_______________ That's why I suggested you do more research. It does address the why. And it's a really interesting subject. Everything about "our being the way we are"... why, how, where, when, all of that.

_______________________ I had a chance to meet Dom Crossan, too, at a conference held at Chapman University. The scholars in this group take votes on whether they think certain sayings attributed to Jesus in the NT are authentic or manufactured. An interesting place to start might be...

Voodoo priests can now legally perform marriages More or less on this same subject, the Boston Globe published this article about voodoo practicioners gaining legal rights in Haiti...

_______________- I've read what the Bible says. Thought I might be missing something, that there was another explanation that isn't obvious. Such as, Jesus wandering through desert for 40 days before he talks to Adversary, so it might be a heat delirium thing. To you, the answer...