The Official "Lets bash Christians" thread...

AnnaG

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You don't have a point, that is the problem.
Not one that you can see anyway. Big surprise there.
Your continued assertion that religious "dogma" some how limits a persons thoughts is completely out to lunch.
*shrugs* That is your opinion.
Besides the ones mentioned by YJ, the person that first postulated the big bang theory was a Catholic Priest.
So? That has nothing to do with what I said. As you indicated in your first sentence, you don't get my point.
 

AnnaG

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Most people upon discovering something that does not make sense to them, think the event is a miracle and they do that because of the religious dogma saying that supernatural beings performed miracles a lot. That is a limitation on thought.
The truly open-minded person would research the event to discover the real reason it occurred.
For Pete's sake, fire used to be a miracle until people figured out that is simply rapid oxidation. But how many fire gods are there? Dozens.
 

gerryh

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Most people upon discovering something that does not make sense to them, think the event is a miracle and they do that because of the religious dogma saying that supernatural beings performed miracles a lot. That is a limitation on thought.
The truly open-minded person would research the event to discover the real reason it occurred.
For Pete's sake, fire used to be a miracle until people figured out that is simply rapid oxidation. But how many fire gods are there? Dozens.

"most people"?:roll:

The Catholic Church doesn't hand out "miracle" status willy nilly, they do exactly what you state, they research and ensure that a "non miraculous" explanation is not available first.

"Some" people don't bother looking beyond the nose on their face and pin "miracle" on anything they can't personally explain. Kind of like those that discount God as impossible because they personally can not explain him and discount those that DO have a personal relationship with him as being "brainwashed", "simpletons" or some other demeaning expletive.
 

AnnaG

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"most people"?:roll:

The Catholic Church doesn't hand out "miracle" status willy nilly, they do exactly what you state, they research and ensure that a "non miraculous" explanation is not available first.
So they tell us. Besides, are the people that investigating these "miracles" not religiously following religious dogma? Or are they independent and objective?

"Some" people don't bother looking beyond the nose on their face and pin "miracle" on anything they can't personally explain. Kind of like those that discount God as impossible because they personally can not explain him and discount those that DO have a personal relationship with him as being "brainwashed", "simpletons" or some other demeaning expletive.
Yup. There are those types of people, too. Then there are people like me who don't really care if there are gods or not, think they are irrelevant to life, who don't doubt the existence of gods but also don't purport that they exist, etc. It leaves me without a bias pertaining to beliefs or disbeliefs in gods.
 

gerryh

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So they tell us. Besides, are the people that investigating these "miracles" not religiously following religious dogma? Or are they independent and objective?

Yup. There are those types of people, too. Then there are people like me who don't really care if there are gods or not, think they are irrelevant to life, who don't doubt the existence of gods but also don't purport that they exist, etc. It leaves me without a bias pertaining to beliefs or disbeliefs in gods.


:roll:.... I'm done..... your mind is so closed a 10 foot pry bar wouldn't be able to open it.