bob young wrote:
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> Protagonist wrote:
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>> Bill M wrote:
>>> The obvious evidence is that all god beliefs are no more than the
creations
>>> of man.
>>>
>>> There are a thousands different religious/god beliefs. If there was a
REAL
>>> god, why would he permit all this misleading information to mislead
and
>>> confuse his flock?
>>>
>>>
>>> Man can communicate with the whole world via TV, Radio, Cell Phone and
the
>>> Internet.
>> That's called the RF!
>> Radio frequency, or RF, is a frequency or rate of oscillation within
the
>> range of about 3 Hz and 300 GHz.
>>
>> God don't use RF, but mans mined and soul.
>> Can you see or hear RF without some sort manufactured converting
device,
>> like radio, TV etc.. invented by man?
>> No!
>> So how did GOD communicate with man thousands of years ago, when there
>> was no radio or the knowledge to build one?
>> JS
>
> He didn't. The story tellers that made a living telling entertaining
much needed
> yarns around the evening camp fires did all of the communicating.
>
> The stories were remembered and later written down.
>
> They had plenty of time - it went on like this for tens of thousands of
years
> until the yarns became instinctive to the extent modern man can
recognize them
> and still be made to feel incredulous.
>
> It's all in the mind.
Those people lived with nature lot more than you, civilized men!
So they felt it a lot more than any one else!
One can't even see the stars from a cities now days!
JS
>
>
>
>>
>>> Certainly any real God should be able to do equally well! Why would he
not
>>> announce directly from his heaven that he is the real god and all the
others
>>> are fakes? Why would he not smite all the fakes?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why does he permit all this confusion and doubt? The objective
evidence is
>>> that all gods are purely the creation of men to assuage his panic fear
of
>>> the finality of death.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have OBJECTIVE VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE that any god actually
>>> exists??? The millions of opinions expressed over the centuries are
not
>>> evidence. They are merely 'opinions'!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not
omnipotent.
>>> Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
>>> Is he both able and willing? Then where does evil come from?
>>> Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him a God?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What distinguishes theology from mythology and astrology? All three
are
>>> founded on myth, folklore and legend. NONE are based on scientific
knowledge
>>> and objective, verifiable, reproducible evidence.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The religious faiths are not founded on faith in God but faith in MEN.
>>>
>>> Religious texts? They were created centuries before the invention of
the
>>> printing press. Written, interpreted, hand copied, modified, altered
and
>>> recopied by hundreds of MEN over thousands of years by other MEN.
Inspired
>>> by God? So MEN say. Which books are Scripture? The ones chosen by
MEN. What
>>> do they mean? What MEN say they mean. Dictated by God? Just the
OPINION of
>>> errant MEN. What is God telling you? Whatever MEN (ordinary selfish.
self
>>> promoting, errant humans) CLAIM he is telling you. These religious
texts are
>>> nothing but folklore, myth, contradictory and impossible stories
created by
>>> MEN. There is not one shred of objective verifiable evidence that ANY
of
>>> these ancient documents are the word of ANY God. The objective
EVIDENCE is
>>> they are purely myths and fables.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Of all the THOUSANDS of God beliefs and claims, how do we know which
is the
>>> real God and which are fakes? What MEN tell their flock is the real
God
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are is a wealth of different religious documents that proclaim
the
>>> validity of various Gods. Which, if any, are correct?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are just some of the religious texts and documents;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Baha'i Sacrid writtings
>>>
>>> Life of Buddha - Dhammapada - Pali cannon
>>>
>>> The Bible - Christian religious documents - 18 English versions alone.
>>>
>>> No originals of the old or new testaments exist.
>>>
>>> The Book of Mormon - Church of Latter Day Saints
>>>
>>> The Analects - Confuscianism
>>>
>>> The Eddas and Sagas - Icelandic beliefs
>>>
>>> Wicca - Neo paganism of Greece and Rome
>>>
>>> Bhagavgita and Rig Veda - Hinduism
>>>
>>> Qur'an - Islam
>>>
>>> Adi Granth and Dasam Granth - canonical scripture of the Sikhs
>>>
>>> Ta****h - Jewism
>>>
>>> Tao-Te-Ching - Taoism
>>>
>>> Nag Hammadi - Gnostics
>>>
>>> Zhuan Falun - Falun Gong
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Of all these different Gods and belief systems which is the true one,
if
>>> any, and which are fakes? None of these documents are any objective
>>> evidence. They are all documents written, hand copied, modified and
further
>>> copied, over the centuries, by errant men with their own personal and
>>> selfish motivations. All of these documents, except the Book of
Mormon, were
>>> hand written and hand copied over the centuries before the invention
of the
>>> printing press. There is no way to determine authenticity or accuracy
of any
>>> of these. The objective evidence is that they are a mixture of
inaccurate
>>> history, myth, folklore and legend.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does it make sense to base ones life on myths and fables of ancient
men???
>>>
>>>
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