Prove there's a god.

[Mylan]

Aura Mytha wrote:

They don't say that, what they say is that there is little to identify who he was...if he did exist.

No, I'm pretty sure they are MUCH more specific than that. LOL...

"The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn," writes Baruch Halpern of Pennsylvania State University.

"The Book of Joshua is of no historical value as far as the process of settlement is concerned," contends Volkmar Fritz, director of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem.

"The period of the patriarchs, exodus, conquest, or judges as devised by the writers of Scriptures ... never existed," declares Robert Coote of San Francisco Theological Seminary.

The Genesis and Exodus accounts are "a fiction written around the middle of the first millennium," states Niels Peter Lemche at the University of Copenhagen, and, "The David of the Bible, David the king, is not a historical figure."

Not sure how an educated person could misinterpret what they said, unless they're a big fan of unicorns...

[RiversideRedneck]

OCB wrote:

<quoted text>No- you just believe that EVERYONE should think the word "god" on money refers to the god that YOU believe in, so yes, you DO believe that everyone should think the same, LIAR.

On that note, yes.

Because it's true.

Just like I want all people to think that "$20" on a US note means "twenty dollars". Because it's true.

[Mylan]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

Besides, do you know where he got his "data"?
I do.

Well thanks for verifying that no matter what, you'd try to weasel out of the facts. Plenty more where those can from. LOL...

[RiversideRedneck]

USG wrote:

<quoted text>
Just because there is a slogan on money doesn't prove or disprove anything. What is your point anyway?

That some silly poster (I won't name OCB's name) likes to think that the US was in no way, shape or form founded by Christian people and that America is in no way, shape or form a Christian nation.

Every time I say "Christian nation", all she talks about are the laws, even though our US Congress approved the addition of "In God We Trust" on our money since 1864 and it has never been altered or removed.

Or that very recently, our US House of Representatives kept "In God We Trust" as the US motto, in a landslide victory of 396-9.....

[Mylan]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

No, it doesn't say "In The Christian God We Trust".
I've never said it did.

We already know that OCB won the debate, you don't need to verify it any further.

[nanoanomaly]

Cephyr13 wrote:

We exist.
Someone who can create matter had to have created us, because we didn't spring out of nothingness for no reason.
Enough said.
Whether we believe or not, He'll save us in the end, one way or another. Technically, deep down, we all know He's real. Some just don't want to acknowledge it, because we're upset with Him.
- Brian

Maybe humans are an experiment gone awry.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/articl...

Maybe our God is bored of our fleshly debacles of greed, lust and murdering our own kin. Could it be that his expectations were too high regarding primates? Or maybe he's on a millennia long bender and left us on the back burner?

[RiversideRedneck]

OCB wrote:

<quoted text>His point? NONE- as usual, or at best (which is really at worst) he is trying to back up his moronic and erroneous notion that the USA is a Christian nation.
RR would like nothing better than for the USA to be a theocracy with it being a CHRISTIAN theocracy.
And he has the GALL to claim to be a good American.
HA!

Derp.

A theocracy is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God.

I've told you countless times that is NOT what I want.

I know it must butt-hurt you beyind belief to have this knowledge of our Christian nation stuck in your mind.

Don't like it?

HA HA HA!!!

[USG]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

RiversideRedneck wrote:
What?!?
If it was Buddhists that keep that slogan, it'd say "In gods We Trust"...
'_'
<quoted text>
LMAO!

Well, for all you know the Buddhists would have had it correct!

[Mylan]

USG wrote:

So then, what would the world look like with no religion?

Well for starters there would be less judgmental people, and MUCH less killing... Religion is an insult to human dignity. There will always be good and bad people in the world, but history has recorded that for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

[RiversideRedneck]

Mylan wrote:

<quoted text>No, I'm pretty sure they are MUCH more specific than that. LOL...
"The actual evidence concerning the Exodus resembles the evidence for the unicorn," writes Baruch Halpern of Pennsylvania State University.
"The Book of Joshua is of no historical value as far as the process of settlement is concerned," contends Volkmar Fritz, director of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
"The period of the patriarchs, exodus, conquest, or judges as devised by the writers of Scriptures ... never existed," declares Robert Coote of San Francisco Theological Seminary.
The Genesis and Exodus accounts are "a fiction written around the middle of the first millennium," states Niels Peter Lemche at the University of Copenhagen, and, "The David of the Bible, David the king, is not a historical figure."
Not sure how an educated person could misinterpret what they said, unless they're a big fan of unicorns...

elcome to the intellectual world of the biblical minimalists, a new breed of radical scholars who would turn Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and even King David into legends and myths by the stroke of their pens, or in your case a stroke of the keyboard.

The problem with your straw man is it's all conjecture.

Sorry.

[USG]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

<quoted text>
That some silly poster (I won't name OCB's name) likes to think that the US was in no way, shape or form founded by Christian people and that America is in no way, shape or form a Christian nation.
Every time I say "Christian nation", all she talks about are the laws, even though our US Congress approved the addition of "In God We Trust" on our money since 1864 and it has never been altered or removed.
Or that very recently, our US House of Representatives kept "In God We Trust" as the US motto, in a landslide victory of 396-9.....

Why doesnt it say "In Christ we Trust"?

[nanoanomaly]

_BobLoblah_ wrote:

<quoted text>21Feb13.....
..'ListenUP'...BOC ya schidt-for-brains....
.....Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, Harrison Ford, Stephen Spielberg, BobLoblah, Oprah Wimprey, Mark Zukerberger, Henry Ford III, Lee Iococca,(no communist Chinks), the King of Thailand, Francis Ford Copulla,....jest to name a few.
Ps:....Bill Gates and Warren Buffett (under the guidance of Bill's wife Melinda ....a lovely Roman Catholic wife and mother..takes care of the distribution) alone donated 'computers to EVERY School in India jest a few years back).'Melinda' ensures that ALL the monies goes to 100% worthwhile causes....and NOT to fraudsters such as members of GreenPeace and anyDing associated with dat corrupt 'Al(midnightMassage)Gore'' Wasn't it a blessing-in-desguise that Good President George W. Bush won that election and put 'olAldaFraudsterGore'...out to pasture. After 'olAldaFraudsterGore' garnished his Nobel Peace Prize....hundreds of thousands of people of High Esteem lost confidence in the Nobel methodology. The same applied to a few years ago when it gave a Nobel Prize to 'yasserWasArat'..da fatherOfTerrorism'. Go Figure.
GOD bless Bill Gates and Warren Buffett (by da vey.....Warren bought 'Heinz' corporation last week for $$28$$ Billion dollars CASH....eat yer heart out on dat von). They have their hearts in da right place.
Ps:....Not up their arseHoles like you, ya envious and jealous eeejit.
Forever and Ever
BobLoblah

Gates is a dickhead....

http://naturalsociety.com/bill-gates-dodges-q...

....dickhead.

[Mylan]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

what religion other than Christianity calls their god "God"?

Nice try but ALL monotheistic religions use the term 'god'. Moron.

[RiversideRedneck]

Mylan wrote:

<quoted text>Well thanks for verifying that no matter what, you'd try to weasel out of the facts. Plenty more where those can from. LOL...

I offered you more facts to better qualify your bullshit link.

"Zip codes" do not equal "Christians"......

[waaasssuuup]

nanoanomaly wrote:

<quoted text>Maybe humans are an experiment gone awry.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/articl...
Maybe our God is bored of our fleshly debacles of greed, lust and murdering our own kin. Could it be that his expectations were too high regarding primates? Or maybe he's on a millennia long bender and left us on the back burner?

hon, He is faithful to every generation and what His Son did at Calvary is just as sufficient to redeem and to restore our lives today as it ever was:)

[Greens-tuf]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

<quoted text>
What made life?
If dirt comes from life and death (lol), what made life?

Atoms give the impression of life. Everything is atoms. Everything is interchangeable.
Atoms give form, form without substance.
So what really is an atom? That's the question you should be asking.

[OCB]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

<quoted text>
On that note, yes.
Because it's true.
Just like I want all people to think that "$20" on a US note means "twenty dollars". Because it's true.

You IDIOT. We have PROOF that $20 on a bill means it is twenty dollars.

NO proof of WHICH god is referred to on money any more than there is any proof of any god to begin with.

You've about bored me to tears with your nonsense and your LIES.

I have better and more important things to attend to than sticking around here right now.

But YOU- given how you actually LIVE on Topix; they might be sending you a RENT bill.

You- the VERY little "dictator"- saying what YOU want people to think- you FOOL.

People will think what they WANT to, not what YOU want them to you stupid fascist anti-American domestic terrorist.

Toodles!

[RiversideRedneck]

Mylan wrote:

<quoted text>Well for starters there would be less judgmental people, and MUCH less killing... Religion is an insult to human dignity. There will always be good and bad people in the world, but history has recorded that for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Right, Then people like Stalin & Pol Pot would run around unopposed.

You'd love that.

[OCB]

USG wrote:

<quoted text>
Why doesnt it say "In Christ we Trust"?

B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T!!!

Could very well be not only one of the best posts of today, but one of the all time best posts on this thread to date.

MAJOR kudos to you!

[Mylan]

RiversideRedneck wrote:

Religion helped bring about the end of slavery.

Not true. Not even close, slave. In fact the Bible praised the use of regulated slavery in the Old Testament.