I Know That God Does Not Exist

yes. I read both of you. As Christians, we need to market Christ before we market our responsibility. Otherwise we may as well quit playing games and simply call ourselves humanists.

Bullshit.Utter bullshit!Jesus was all about responsibility; the message of Jesus is responsibility.To market Jesus separate from responsibility is to denigrate, diminish and degrade Jesus and the message of Jesus.

It makes sense as written. I couldn't care less what "Christian tradition" tries to twist it into. It really doesn't.What does make sense is if "the Word" refers to words.

That would certainly be a step up.

Hi Dr, If I look at sun, or moon I see a circle. If I see them as a circle does that mean they are flat?As far as that goes the 1611 definition of the word 'circle' encompassed the whole body or solid matter of a round substance, are denominated a circle; a ring; an orb; the earth.If I say I see the earth sitting on the circle of the sun does that mean either is flat? But Genesis 10:25 specifically states: "for in his days the earth divided". It says nothing about the families or people, or the ones building the tower.I think science teaches that the earth did divide in the past, or did I misunderstand what is taught?

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Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

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The verses preceding this verse talks about the people who were building a tower to heaven. Them he scattered upon the face of the earth.God Bless,

no, but it means that if you declare them to be a circle that you would be wrong. 1611 is much later then when the bible was actually written.

Hi Dr, But that is when the KJV bible was translated from Hebrew and Greek to English. And the definition given was for the English word circle at that time.God Bless,

so 1611, after it was widely know that the earth was sphere-ish, the translators used a word that said the earth was round. So at best, the translators of the bible predicted that the earth was round long after it was common knowledge.

Religion For The Non-Religious

when u get up in the morning i want you to look in the mirror and saygod did not create megod does not existthat is the definition of mental illnessthe creation telling his creator he is not there

A cartoon in a mid-70's German parody/political magazine, Pardon! shows a person with an enormous nose looking up into the sky asking God why he had been given such a huge nose. God appears to him from behind a cloud with an enormous nose to tell him, "Because you were created in my image."Do please at least try to get a clue!

That is the unstated creed that I speak with every breath. Thousands of times a day, just by breathing, I reaffirm this creed of reality.Further, your god will not challenge me will not oppose me.He knows he is made from men’s minds and can be vanquished with a mere thought.Your non-existent god cowers in my presence. I am man. I rule over your god and his heaven.

abiogenesis is impossibleyou were createdyou know thatyou try to delude yourselfeveryday.but you're no better than the chair made by the woodworkeryou're a created beingand that truth rings for eternity in your soul and your mind and echoes out of your every orificethere is no getting around ita chair did not just appear there. the woodworker made it.matter cannot create itself. it doesn't have the intelligence to develop into life forms and humanoids.you are a created being.god laughs at your protest.for in the deepest pockets of your soulyou know he fashioned you out of dustu were made in the image of godthat's why you have a visagewith eyeballs that peerand you were created uniquethere is no other AZPaul3but that is the definition of mental illnessthe created being denies his creatorlike pinocchio rebuking geppettobut you are a chreated beaingand you've cheated yourself out of authentic existencebut there's a sound that whispers in your ears when you drown your natureyou were created and you have launched a protestbut there is a whisper in the wind that says i love you'i am god i created youand you hear it slightlyyou can believe anything you want.but the serial number is written on your heartyou were createdjust as everything else is a part of his creation.

Abiogenesis is on the path of life. We are complex chemistry in continuous motion and your denials will not alter that fact. Which means nothing in the reality of the universe. Nature, not god, made the woodworker as well as the tree from which he made the chair.And the knowledge to make the chair from the tree is the product of human intellect and creativity, two additional qualities your non-existent god lacks.You are an ape, an evolved monkey, once a rat born of a fish born of a worm.All the evidence of history, all the evidence of planet Earth, attest to this fact. And all your catholic angst and want of suffering and all your appeals to majik and stupidity cannot alter the facts the universe presents us. George Carlin again? Oh, gawd, I sure as hell hope you're right. I couldn't take another one of me. Hell, I can barley tolerate the one that's here except he does have a most excellent beard.

Thanks Phat, I liked that link.I think it does a really good job taking a large subject and explaining a lot of important aspects of it.My one contention is the entire article (except for maybe a small part near the end?) seems to take on this whole: "This is really important to me... therefore something similar is really important to everyone!!" vibe... which I don't like.Example:

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Society at large focuses on shallow things, so it doesn’t stress the need to take real growth seriously.

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Here he's implying that "real growth" is necessarily "religious/spiritual/mental/state-of-mind."
Although I agree that such growth is extremely important (and one of the most important things to me personally) - I would never call it "real growth" in the sense that it "must" apply to everyone.People vary so much... to assume that anything applies to "everyone" is, well, missing the point of what he's talking about throughout most of his own article.This is, also, just me being nit-picky.
Like I said - he does make some mention to this at the bottom in his entire "What Are You?" final section.
Here he talks about figuring it out for yourself and it could be anything at all - which is really good stuff.But, then he falls back into the trap again with his last sentence of "I hope I’ve convinced you how important this is. Don’t wait until your deathbed to figure out what life is all about."And seems to forget that it's entirely possible for someone to not think this is important at all, not need this to be important at all, and is perfectly happy (perhaps happier than him, even?) without considering it in the slightest.Other than that - I like his ideas very much and really enjoyed reading over them - so thank-you.