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Originally Posted by Ixtellor
Ok...
Outside of a life and death firefight.
Do you think it is healty and good to have a level of doubt and skepticism about your religious beliefs?
Many people who consider them Christians/Muslism have NO DOUBT and believe in absolutes that are horrific.
Raping children,
Slavery,
Suicide bombers.
These people had zero doubt and placed their belief in God to justify all their heinous actions.
Today, millions of Americans have NO DOUBT that by sending large sums of money to the TV preacher, that they will be rewarded by God. No doubt.
I don't see the harm in stepping back and saying "I am 99% sure that I believe in X. But I am open to debate, and concede it is possible that I am wrong."
I think its a good thing.
Richard Dawkins claims he is a 6 out of 7 in his belief in aethism. (In other words, he leaves room for doubt)
Ixtellor
P.S. Don't rape 15 year old girls. Please have doubt that you are doing the work of God.
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One of the young students who was killed at Columbine high school in Colorado several years back was approached by one of the gun wielding lunatics and asked "does anyone here believe in Christ?" This was in the school library. She answered yes. She was shot for her trouble.
That dear friend Ixtellor, was an act of pure unadulterated evil.
I don't want to hear the mumbo jumbo scientific psychology, "Daddy didn't give enough attention" b.s., the young man was under the influence of pure evil.
If there's not a Heaven and if there's no God to take that young woman's soul and Love her for proclaiming Christ in her last action on this Earth? well frankly, I'll be glad when I die then, because if there's no true Justice for Evil, than Life itself is amoral and deserves what it gets in the end.
Extinction.