one of the most common thing thrown at atheists is - lots of intelligent people believe in god.
this darkmatter 2525's video is an excellent explanation as to why very logical people possess religious belief systems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y201qzddzbg.
Indeed, regarding Einstein:
Albert Einstein's religious views have been studied extensively. He said he believed in the "pantheistic" God of Baruch Spinoza, but not in a personal god, a belief he criticized. He also called himself an agnostic, while disassociating himself from the labelatheist, preferring, he said, "an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being".
i never thought i would admit it, but i don't.
i might superstitiously have some kind of doubt but digging a bit deeper in my heart i really don't believe in god.
as a human i could never just sit and watch people be tortured, live years of abuse, suffer from illness and disabilities and all the other awful things people have to endure day after day without doing something about it.
Which God(s)?
Unless someone presents credible evidence that their specific God exists and presents evidence (not claims) for all the properties this God supposedly has, I do not believe in any gods.
So far I noticed believers apparently only present arguments why their (or any) God could or might exist, or something along the lines of "you can only believe it if you first believe it". Thanks, but no thanks.
And yes, this is the complete opposite of what I believed to be true for most of my life.
i've been using windows 7 for several years and have had no complaints.. i've tried many browsers and settled on google chrome.
it has absolutely everything i want or need.. i kept hearing about the free upgrade to windows 10, so i went to youtube and watched endless "reviews" pro and con.. what pushed me over the (microsoft edge) was the fact i could test drive the new operating system.
for 30 days and go back to windows 7 if i didn't like it!
At home I have almost exclusively used Linux for the last 15 years (on a dual boot system).
After upgrading the hardly used Windows 7 to 10, never went back to Linux again.
absolutely amazing how fast this technology is advancing.
at the darpa challenge last year the robots could hardly walk up right and it took them ten minutes to walk through an open door frame.
now they're running around outside and opening doors like a pack of velociraptors!
my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.
i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.
in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.
@Billy,
Btw kudos to your politie and calm demeanor.
You behaviour is unlike many other (so-called) Christians and/or Jehovah's Witnesses responding to people challenging the validity of their beliefs.
It doesn't mean you're right ;-) but it's a commendation to your humanity :-)
my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.
i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.
in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.
@QMI,
Imagine a person making money selling cherries.
He has a basket full of cherries. Half of them healthy, half of them poisonous.
He picks out the healthy cherries and eats them. He tells you about how healthy these cherries are, and how the guy who grows the cherries is such a nice guy.
Then he wants to force you to buy and eat the whole basket including the poisonous cherries. "Because the guy who grows the cherries is such a loving and kind guy."
So, no cherry picking of any kind please.
my name is stephen and i am new to the forum.
i am a christadelphian and through my discussions with fellow members of my ecclesia it has inspired me to reach out to other religions to find out exactly what others believe to enhance my own faith and further bring me closer to our heavenly father.
in no way do i mean disrespect if it has been caused.
Results of shunning in my case:
Now, since about September I found out JW are not the truth (and I am confident to say neither are Christadelphians or any other religion)
Religious mandated shunning is evil.
Any religion that practises shunning and makes people 'kill' their own family, blame it on the victims, and then call that 'loving' is a cult.
now that i'm free to bet, i figured it would be neat to start a pool on when the watchtower is going to change light bulbs on the prophecy about the united nations turning on worldwide religion.
there is no doubt in my mind that this prediction will be dropped.
not only is this the longest-running unchanged prediction in the wt's history (1925 and 1975 had much shorter gestations) it's the last detailed concrete prediction the society has left in its bag of tricks.
Yes, and yes.
So, what can we expect will happen during the coming great tribulation? Jehovah will “cut short” the attack of the United Nations on false religion, not allowing true religion to be destroyed with the false.
4 How will the great tribulation begin? The book of Revelation answers by describing the destruction of “Babylon the Great.”
[...]
But who will destroy the harlotlike organization? Jehovah God will put “his thought” into the hearts of “the ten horns” of the “scarlet-colored wild beast.” These horns represent all the present political powers that give support to the United Nations, an organization pictured by the “scarlet-colored wild beast.”
just a few observations from this morning.
.. this morning as i was trying to choke back the bile that kept wanting to come up during the wt study one comment in particular screamed cult.. towards the very end as comments were being made about "counseling" others with "gracious" words one of the uber-dub minstral-serpents made this comment, "we see in the last image that the brother is holding a bible as he counsels the other brother.
we look closely at the picture and we can know exactly what he is counseling the brother about.
How Christian of those taking issue with your personal grooming not to speak to you first.
Or were the elders just lying?
One could check it out by politely asking 'which one of my brothers has something against me, so I can make it right with him?'
this is just meant to be a fun topic.. what are some tv and movie snippets that summarize the conformity and extremism of watchtower life in general?.
i found this trailer for the giver to be dead on :-).
it shows what happens when you start to openly question the organization and its policies.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etspwr5deek&feature=youtu.be.
@jw07,
Thanks, I'll watch that one with my still-in wife ;-)
