Why does it seem the SL population hates Christians?

Actually some of those are hundreds of years apart, between prophecy and fulfilment.



I think common sense dictates that when you build something below sea level, there is a high probability that it will flood at some point, when all that is holding the water back is a couple of high walls. Did you know New Orleans flooded in 1927? http://www.southbear.com/New_Orleans/Geography.html it's basically an accident waiting to happen, and http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html explains some more about its history

Lewis

Awwwwww

Well that's exactly what many others are doing in this thread regarding their non-belief in Christianity. In fact, I could easily also say that you are.

Lewis

Well, now there's one thing where I can say we agree.

Seriously.

Finding the death of people who are trying to help out amusing, even if they don't share your personal hatreds, is twisted.

I can honestly say I don't recall ever seeing something so disturbing on the forum. Even the christian = hitler woman a few pages back wasn't that bad.

Consider getting help.

No. We aren't trying to make you give up your faith, or shove our personal beliefs down your throat.

Interesting. So, 'experts' on one side are allowed to provide proof, but those on the 'other' aren't?

Face it, scientists are just as biased in their writings as you are claiming Christians to be.

Scientific methods change all the time as 'new discoveries' are made - meaning they are only facts until disproven otherwise.

God does not change, however.

Lewis

You'd probably find there's a lot more things, when the subjects come up.

Lewis

Won't disagree with that either.

Neither do the facts underlying science.

However, I do recall God changing his mind about an awful lot of stuff. God who is perfect and infallible, as I recall.

I'm not telling you to believe as I do. I quite frankly don't care what you believe in to the extent that you do not cast your judgement down on the rest of us for being different. I am explaining why I don't believe or follow Christianity as is everyone else. At best, people are providing alternate examples of thought -- I can see where that might taint your pure saved soul. There is a big difference between me explaining how/why I am not a Christian and you telling people that they are not saved because they are not Christians. I don't think you should be an atheist etc. but you seem to think we should all be Christians. Did you even read the rest of my post?

Faith and proof are mutually exclusive. Example:

My socks keep vanishing. I read on this website/book that it's the Invisible Pink Unicorn who keeps rapturing them! There, I solved the mistery!

Only it's complete nonsense.



Quite right, science is constantly disproving things. Like bits of religion. Zeus became completely unnecessary for instance, and vanished in a puff of logic.



So when was the last time we saw a burning bush, or water splitting, or a booming voice coming from the sky? He sure seems to keep a lot more to himself lately. That's a change.

A brainwashed religious zealot does not an expert make.

Regards,

-Flip

Christianity's marketing angle is all wrong.

Now, if it marketed itself as a deathcult with a zombie saviour, and institutionalised ritual cannibalism, it could garner itself some street cred.

and Lewis, I know that you have your beliefs, and i respect your right to them, the same respect youve extended me as a friend, youve done yourself a disservice the way youve come across in this thread.
As to the original poster... if you attempt to evangelise to me in world, youll quickly find a prim bible shoved up your keister.

Peole have tried to make me a Sub in SL. It happens every day. Day in and day out yet I do not go after these people. I turn away from them.

You are making me feel better. You have broken down to vulgar language. That is a sure method in seeing a losing argument Also your message says to me that you can not stand people that disagree with you. The truth is that you are the person with no tolerance.

Christianity would be more on-target today if they worked in the sex angle.

What happened to the great parts in the bible, you know, where so-and-so's-wife couldn't get pregnant, so the husband got to impregnate their servant? Now *that* is classy.

Just imagine the service industry dollars if we could get that integrated into society today. Those people were innovators!

I still think church needs more skirts.

You read the Handmaiden's Tale....
or seen the movie adaptation Maxx?
chilling stuff.

Also there is no "original bible."

It's a book that evolved over a long period of time based on a lot of different sources. Some of the oldest bits are indeed ancient Hebrew, but parts of them are essentially identical to older Summerian stuff. The majority was written in Aramaic.

There are also almost zero recovered texts that make up the bible that survive from the period of the stories they refer to.

Almost all the earliest surviving texts of the New Testament for example were written hundreds of years after it happened (I think one gets as close as about 70 years now), so whatever the "original," said is still very much in doubt.

Uh, what do you call the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament?

God changed.

Briana Dawson

Strictly speaking, the Bible isn't God.

You obviously have not read all the posts in this thread. Especially the last 2-3 pages.

Briana Dawson

Wow.

That managed to neither address her comment (which was, admittedly, baseless) or have any relevence to anything else in this thread. But yet, it wasn't funny, like Pie.

Well, after this got moved, the original poster (who has yet to respond in this thread) created a bitchpost in the General forums asking why it was moved and claiming that Christianity was being descriminated against.

Which to me tells me that all this debate has been simply feeding an evangelistic troll.

At least, the debate is intelligent. For the most part. I've seen a few dumb things, like Pascal's Wager and assumption that all religions that believe in a form of Magick are tripe, but for the most part, very intelligent.

I will submit, though, that man created religion. Religion is not God. Religion was discovered the first time a rock fell off the top of a mountain and killed someone.

I don't think people should be held accountable for what they believe, but should be held accountable for how they express it to others once they claim the belief. Each person according to their own definition of sin. If you can't face yourself, regardless of belief, you're certainly not going to be able to face your deity.

Please show us where you've tried to be reasonable. You've made absolute claims that YOUR way of belief was superior to everyone else's, but the only 'evidence' you've provided has been links to fundamentalist websites which have the same agenda as you. Maybe I should cite www.positiveatheism.org or www.infidels.org back at you -- even though you'd never read them, the fact is that they contain far more logic and reason than you've demonstrated in this thread.

Nobody's trying to change your mind, Lewis, but keep your superstitious, condescending nonsense to yourself and make everybody happy.

No - it would be 'having people smitten'.