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A memetic idea, or "meme" is one that self replicates and adapts itself to suit a new circumstance.
Christianity had done a fair bit of adapting in just the last 400 years. Christains had to concede that the world is not flat, the world revolves around the sun and not the other way round and that we have indeed evolved from the same lineage of ancestors as the mordern orangutan.(The newest molecular evidence clearly points to this truth,as discovered and accepted in only the last 5 years) The world is not 6400 years old as some have interpreted the Bible to say but seems to be 350-450 million years old.
In spite of these findings Christianity, Islam and Judeaism continue along without a burp, bump or wobble.
How much evidence will people have to see before they realise that OLD documents aren't necessarily "technically correct" documents.
The Old and New testaments, Quran, and the Torah are documents filled with great ideas, including the idea that we will have an after life. They say that there is a heaven (including extensive descriptions) without any physical evidence, as they did with the flat earth etc.
Christians have attempted to prove God through logic, mathematics and some continue today with creation science. Inspite of all of the work, God has not yet poked his nose through the clouds to say hello. God's abscence does NOT prove god does not exist, but it surely does not prove his existence either. (I lost my watch, but I know it still exists, somewhere..)
The problem is that there are no reliable witnesses to God existence, at least in modern times. Had he been here and left the matter would be different. (like the watch)
Faith of any kind is just that... faith. It does not take faith to wonder where the evidence is! It does not take faith to ask hard questions of those who puport to know the answer to the mystery of God's existence.
Is there a God? My wife says there is.... and if I expect to get laid tonight I will agree.. because she is standing here watching me type..
Praise the lord...
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Living on the edge of sanity
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