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Originally Posted by Zyr
I really like the article, Halx.
A thought occurs, that is roughly "Believers like answers, non-believers like questions", which is nice and succinct, rather... bumper-stickery, but probably not really what I'm trying to say. Atheists are fine with the idea that we really don't know the answers to some rather big questions.
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I don't know about that...I mean, believers seem to be fine with something like:
who made the world daddy ?
god made it son.
now, obviously that's not much of an answer.
what happens when I die ?
you go to heaven
ok, wtf is heaven ?
again, fairly open to interpretation.
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People might claim to have experienced supernatural events, but the million dollar prizes for proof of god or proof of the supernatural remain to be awarded. (There is an organization out there that will pay you a million dollars if you can prove it.)
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can't be done. if you could prove a "supernatural" phenomenon it would no longer be supernatural. it's like exposing the mechanics behind a magic trick.
if you could prove god exists, you wouldn't need
faith you'd have proved it's existence as an entity as a fact. your faith would no longer have any value at all.
creationists can't
logic their way to prove gods existence, or they'd kill the concept of faith. the creationists argument is a tactic (I believe) just invented by the church to expand (i.e. push into schools etc) the church. it may be held as real by some of the faithful, but that's just because they've drank the coolaid.
someone mentioned trust, that's just faith. knowledge is a different thing, I know the rock is there, I don't
trust the rock is there. science proves A so I
know A is a
fact I don't trust or believe facts, I KNOW them.
god
needs your faith. that's all he (it ?) wants. if you prove he exists, you take away any possibility of him getting what he wants from you and any value you get from him. I think.
