A Believers Critique Of The Humanist Manifesto

God responds

I dunno, but it's still the difference between my relationship with God and your relationship with long John Silver.

We know that Long John Silver is a fictional character and a lot of people talk about their relationship with God.But you can still call me crazy if you want to.

They'd all agree with me that God exists and you're wrong so that's a billion in my favor I don't doubt that (my) God is "inaccurate", I just doubt that He's fictional. Well you're obviously crazy But maybe I am too And I was gonna say that maybe your relationship with LJS is on par with mine with God, I dunno what you're doing up there all by yourself, but it's whatever. I don't think I'm very right, I just know it's not fake.

I think the results would be inconclusive, but I'm gonna say "no" here - depending on what you mean by standing up to it. I mean, we'd be dealing with emotions and feelings n'stuff, so I'm not sure how much scientific scrutiny we're going to achieve.If you're asking about any kind of, say, "success" in that endeavor, then I can more easily so that I don't think that's going to happen. My belief in God is based on direct experience. Nobody here today saw the Flood.Also, we know for a fact that the entire planet has not been covered in water since humans have been here - so regardless of the basis for their belief I already know they're wrong.

No, it's like saying the movie version of Long John Silver is better than the book one. I'm saying a billion muslims would agree with me that God exists - that their concept of god differs some from mine doesn't make mine a fictional character.

In my experience, you don't. It takes faith.I don't know that what I experienced was God. I do think that the concept that most people use the word "God" to describe does fit for the thing that I encountered. I can't tell if my opinions about it our accurate or not, and I don't know if the way my parents raised me was on track.I asked them about how I was raised, and what they believe, and we all came to the conclusion that it was a good track to be on. While the odds are that we're off on a lot of things, given the reality of God I can be confident that the teachings that I've receieved are an honest attempt to understand what's going on here.With the history of my family, and those that came before me following in these footsteps (and the successes that this family has achieved and continues to pass forward), I can accept that our religion is a good way to approach an attempt at figuring out this thing that we cannot understand.So I'm in.

If The Flood did occur, then God is giving us false evidence - and that's wrong.Too, if the sun was created ex nihilo rather than forming, then should see evidence of that. Since the evidence suggests that it formed, if it was created then that would be a trick as well.So it's not just about being based on direct experience, but also what are the ramifications of the belief being true.My experience with God could have been a trick. But if it wasn't God, then it wasn't God who was tricking me

Who and how do we decide which religions are worth of our protection?