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A beginner's guide to being an atheist, by Richard Dawkins
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Freddy Figbottom
Was it me?
Just reading the back of a book isn't "reading the book" cy.
WHy don't you use Google AI to tell you what it says. Like you do when you have a Bible question.
^^ Perry PhD is so impressed with the content and organization of my posts he believes they could only conceivably be possible by artificial intelligence and sophisticated software.
Practically the only time I have to use Google is when you don't believe what I say and I have to give you an independent source corroborating and confirming what I wrote.
In other words, it's entirely your fault if I have to use Google. You could have just accepted what I wrote was generally true.
The most interesting thing about this exchange is the speed with which you backtracked from the claim Paul was a rouge teacher, spewing his own personal opinion unsanctioned by Jesus' apostles and the founding church in Jerusalem.
I have never read the Bible but I use Google AI when I have a discussion. And now I have to come up with excuses after I gave everyone so much shit for using Google. I'm a massive hypocrite. All just so you will tell me I'm the smartest. Please tell me!!!!!
ftfy
Perry the reason I am not constantly frantically Googling like you and getting things wrong like you do is because I read hundreds of books, take hundreds of classes, and watch thousands of hours of documentaries and podcasts.
Your method of cherry picking, frantic Googling, and confirmation bias is absolutely the wrong way to go about getting a decent working knowledge of any subject. You just have to do the hard work of actually learning.
ftfy
Says the frantic googler.
I quoted the Bible, you quoted Google AI.
'Nuff said.
you are exposed as the poseur you are.
Now go watch some more Youtube videos, faker.
ftfy
You're a strange bird, Perry PhD
It actually makes a statement that posters of the quality of you, Freddy Figbottom, and Into The Nightgown make common cause to follow me around and complain about my posts.
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
I would as well if I were interested enough to make the effort.
I was raised as a Catholic as a child--
although honestly mostly a wedding and funeral Catholic--
but except for the Gospel recitations at Mass,
even devout Catholics didn't read the Bible much.
Catholicism isn't really about salvation by faith alone as most other Christian denominations are.
Catholicism is more about doing your best.
IF religion made any sense at all to me,
I probably would have stayed a Catholic.
Great architecture, art, and music.
Although admittedly, some African American denominations have more fun music.
I'm so mad that people saw that I didn't know the Bible but used Google AI making me a ginormous hypocrite! Now I'm going to pout!
Ftfy, Master Googler.
Yeah, I really enjoy gospel music.
But really, churches in the US want followers, not thinkers.
And if Cypress hadn't spent the past several months excoriating people for "frantic googling" like he's above it I wouldn't be pointing it out.
Google is fine. Unless you are @Cypress the smartest man in the world.
But it's clear Cy isn't able to support his position with quotes from the BIble, he has to go with AI. That's just sad, actually.
As my wife who is a cradle catholic (lapsed) says: "We wrote the BIble, we don't have to read it".
Not white congregation hymns. Those are dreadful.
That's how faith works best. I used to be really enthralled by the Scholastics and the early Church fathers adherence to logic as a support structure but it now kinda feels like the infrastructure they built is not as firm as I once thought.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
That's a pretty broadbrush. How many different denominations of Christianity did you survey before drawing that conclusion?
Dude, give it some thought.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
It's okay if you don't have a logical reply. I was simply curious if you did.
Churches are businesses, dude. They want people in the pews, listening to the sermon, maybe a little music and dropping the money in the collection plate.It's okay if you don't have a logical reply. I was simply curious if you did.
They don’t want people questioning their dogma. For Christians, the absurdity of the Trinity, virgin birth, resurrection, flood or creation myths. And tons more.
The Mormons don’t want their members to know that Joseph Smith was a conman, that the golden tablets would have been too heavy to carry or that their critical Book of Abraham is bullshit.
True critical thinking and research into those holy books, dogma and the origins of their theology is the surest way to create atheists. Or, in the least, lose their money cows.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Wow. Obviously, you aren't a business man. "Give the customer what they want".
Your claim that churches are cramming their views down the throats of innocent American citizens and taking their money then claiming those citizens don't have a choice in churches or other Sunday morning activities....which is what I do. I only go to church for weddings and funerals...and not many of those. How is that a great business model for those Christian churches you hate so much?