Some find it more difficult to believe that our pretty little blue and green earth just happened, others hat there is a creator god. One or the other unbelievable thing must be true. I'm not sure how it is easier to believe the one than the other. There is no proof.
Personally, I find it easier to believe that there is a creator. It just seems more logical, more believable, than that earth just happened, but that doesn't make it so necessarily, nor does it say anything at all about the nature of that creator.
! The Catholic Pope wasn't the leader of the Christians?
Surely, you're not going to tell us that Catholics aren't Christians, are you?
I'm not sure that "justified" is the right word. The Crusades were an aggressive and decidedly un Christian like attack on Islam that resulted in enmity between the two religions that led to an angry Muslim population that wouldn't allow Christians to cross their land, leading to the development of seafaring by the Europeans, which eventually led to the discovery of the Americas.
The Crusades indirectly had a profound effect on the history of the world, and did lead to the continued spread of Christianity. Surely, no one is going to argue that that outcome was intentional. I'm not so sure that the native inhabitants of the Americas would think that the outcome was positive, either.
History is the account of wars, and it is written by the victors.
Prayer in schools is not illegal. Compulsory prayer is illegal. For some reason, there seem to be some modern Christian fundamentalist sects who are big into compulsion. That seems to me to be rather un Christian, but that's just my perspective.
There is no conflict between evolution and god. Evolution is a scientific observation. God is a religious concept. The two are not mutually exclusive in any way, unless you want to try to believe that the Earth is really only a few thousand years old.
I think my sig line shows the only way anyone could possibly believe anything so absurd.
If god created man, then god created homosexuals as well. Who are you to say that she was wrong?
The Bible has very little to say about homosexuality. It is modern homophobes who make a big deal about it, not the writers of the Bible.
Come to think of it, one must wonder about a man who never married, but spend his time wandering about the world being followed by a contingent of other men, don't you think?
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Robertson has made some patently absurd statements, and been lampooned for it. Why would anyone take what he has to say seriously?
Do you believe that an earthquake hit Haiti because their ancestors made a pact with the devil?
How did such patently ridiculous superstition ever survive into the 21st. century?
No one can force anyone else to believe a thing. The worst they can do is tell us that we must believe what they believe, or incur the wrath of their god.
It seems to me that it is the fundamentalists who would force people to believe what they believe if they could.
In some ways, you're correct. There does seem to be a lot more dishonesty, thievery, and thuggery than there used to be. On the other hand there is a lot less bigotry and ignorance than there used to be. Some changes are good, others not.
