I think when you die, your brain permanently stops functioning and your consciousness ends with it. You don’t experience darkness, silence or an eternity of nothing. There’s simply no experience at all.
I see no convincing reason to believe we wake up somewhere else. This life is the one we know we’ve got, and that makes how we spend it matter even more.
You’ve listed questions you think atheism can’t answer, then declared Christianity the winner because it offers answers. But an explanation being available doesn’t make it true.
Which of those questions actually establishes the existence of the Christian god, rather than simply giving you somewhere to put him?
Why does Atheism fail?
It fails because it can’t carry the weight of its own claims.
It needs: • A universe that begins without a cause
• Rational minds from non-rational processes
• Objective moral outrage without an objective moral standard
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You still haven’t established your argument. You keep comparing abortion to murder without demonstrating why every abortion qualifies.
And Plan B prevents ovulation. It doesn’t terminate an existing pregnancy.
How exactly does preventing an egg from being released amount to starving a human being to death?
You’ve repeated “abortion is murder” as though saying it twice establishes it. The commandment prohibits murder. It doesn’t establish that abortion falls under it.
And the bible has multiple human authors. Claiming Jesus inspired them is a separate theological argument.
Can you actually defend your conclusion?
@JonnyThom157564@DrFrankTurek You’ve called abortion “murder”, then used that label to declare how Jesus would vote.
But the gospels don’t record him discussing abortion, let alone instructing Christians how to vote.
What establishes that your political preference is his?
Lew, the problem is that Frank defines “conservative” so broadly that almost anyone could qualify, including liberals.
If he simply means preserving what you believe is good, his conclusion is trivial.
If he means political conservatism, he hasn’t established the connection. Which is it?
They’re unveiling the ark of the covenant like it’s a new Mercedes at a dealership.
Give it another Sunday and they’ll wheel out the golden calf with a contactless donation terminal fitted to its forehead. 😂
Wendell, atheists aren’t required to believe a single one of those five claims.
And asking you to justify your beliefs isn’t demanding absolute certainty.
You’ve assigned us an entire worldview, then attacked it. Why not challenge what we actually believe?
Atheism’s favorite move is to demand absolute certainty from Christians…
while living on a mountain of assumptions.
• The universe just “is” • Life just “happened” • Morality is just “useful” •Consciousness is just “emergent” • Truth is just “whatever works”
@Truth_matters20 Danny, “true Christian” seems to mean anyone who agrees with you.
Catholics also regard scripture as god’s word, yet reject it as the sole authority.
So what actually makes your interpretation correct and theirs wrong? Your confidence isn’t the deciding factor.
@erichovind Agreed, Eric. Now apply that same discernment to the bible. A story can be compelling, meaningful and still contain terrible ideas.
Are you willing to question those ideas just as critically, or does your religious conviction get special treatment?
And what happens when someone clings to Jesus, trusts him completely and their life still falls apart?
Does that count against the promise, or do we just start calling the suffering a blessing too? 😂
@mikeautoplug You claim the bible contains the mind of god. How exactly did you establish that?
And how would you distinguish a genuinely divine message from something written by humans who believed they were speaking for god?
I don’t. This world is the only home we’ve established exists.
Other religions make equally supernatural claims about what happens after death, often with completely different destinations.
So how did you determine that we’ll stand before jesus rather than encounter one of the countless alternatives?
And the worst part? Once people have publicly defended a lie, correcting it becomes a matter of pride.
They’d rather spend another five years defending nonsense than spend five seconds admitting they got it wrong.
Just spent £70 on the new Call of Duty despite not touching the game in over 3 years. 😂
For that price, I better be able to smell the gunpowder, feel the bullets fly past my head and claim a military pension when I retire. Fucking hell. 😭
Jesus was just some bloke from Nazareth. Now, 2,000 years later, people are dragging trees into their living rooms to celebrate his birthday. 😭
Imagine trying to explain that to him. 😂
And here’s the thing, sleep paralysis can make people see frightening figures or sense someone standing in their bedroom.
We’ve actually got a documented explanation for that. 😂
Yet somehow, people jump straight to demons before considering what their own brains are capable of.
Steven, you’re discussing whether two invisible spirits can occupy the same body like it’s a dispute over tenancy rights. 😂
Before we start arguing over who gets to move in, how exactly do you establish that someone is possessed by the holy spirit or a demon in the first place?
What’s the actual test?