@the-cysko-kid said:

Hey everyone's got preferances. Asians do nothing for me either.

Not a big fan of roast beef?

@the-cysko-kid said:

Black girls do nothing for me.

I'm not shocked, haha

@mld-woody said:

What did you do, just search "Christian murder" in Google?

What makes the killers "likely Obama supporters"?

Their blackness and criminal natures.

@clevfan4life said:

Or your cat could be dreaming up ways it could bump you off:

Cats ARE neurotic - and they're probably also trying to work out how to kill you, say researchers

@westside-steve said:

So you think human, little do you know your cat is probably cleaning up in it's fantasy leagues.

@logicisforsquares said:

Yup haha. I guess I just don't see the point of talking in circles. I get enough of that just trying to figure out dinner plans with my wife.

Yes, & I was shocked to find out that my cat doesn't care who starts on Monday night!

WSS

@westside-steve said:

That's Life amigo. Unfortunately human beings, as far as I know, are the only creatures on earth with the ability to think in the abstract. And so it goes.

WSS

Yup haha. I guess I just don't see the point of talking in circles. I get enough of that just trying to figure out dinner plans with my wife.

@logicisforsquares said:

A religious debate that goes nowhere. If you are convinced there is a God or not, what a stranger says on a football forum won't change that.

That's Life amigo. Unfortunately human beings, as far as I know, are the only creatures on earth with the ability to think in the abstract. And so it goes.

WSS

@gftchris said:

Perhaps you're right. I think most atheists here and the world over would be happy if people applied the same scrutiny to their own religion as they do to others, and other claims. For example, pretty much everybody agrees that climate change is a thing that we're causing, yet some are demanding absolute proof beyond any possible doubt and as soon as anyone says anything that's not completely in line with expectations - rightly or wrongly - that's enough to make people say it's all bullshit. Well, apply that same level of requirement to your religion. Is there any proof for any of it (the supernatural part, that is), outside of your religious text?

I am an atheist and would like that but I am not holding my breath. If someone is religious, I just don't give a shit. If they try to push it on me or naysay my opinions using their religion as the basis for it then I will pipe up. Until then, I don't think I am convincing anyone and they aren't convincing me to join a religion.

@mld-woody said:

As a non believer the story of Jonah would be mocked and it makes sense it would be from unbelievers. It would take a miracle to happen. Some believe in miracles and some don't. What doesn't make sense to me are Christians who think the story of Jonah is too far fetched even though Jesus Himself used the story of Jonah to illustrate his own death and resurrection. These type Christians can believe that God became a man, died on a cross for their sins and rose from the dead but the miracle of Jonah is just too unbelievable? To me that does not make sense.

@logicisforsquares said:

Perhaps you're right. I think most atheists here and the world over would be happy if people applied the same scrutiny to their own religion as they do to others, and other claims. For example, pretty much everybody agrees that climate change is a thing that we're causing, yet some are demanding absolute proof beyond any possible doubt and as soon as anyone says anything that's not completely in line with expectations - rightly or wrongly - that's enough to make people say it's all bullshit. Well, apply that same level of requirement to your religion. Is there any proof for any of it (the supernatural part, that is), outside of your religious text?

@mld-woody said:

If you're convinced a man lived in a fish... Well... Yeah

shot

WSS

@jbluhm86 said:

For someone who is supposedly beyond human comprehension and understands the universe in ways we are unable to, God takes a rather humanistic and keen interest on what goes on between two naked people in the privacy of their bedroom. Or on making a fuss against eating bacon. Or elucidating rather specific rules in mutilating an infant boy's penis to show proof in belief of him.

No, those are the possibly inaccurate ideas of what mankind thinks God wants.

For instance my cat might be afraid to do some things because I will shout and scare her. She might do some things because I usually give her a treat. She might hop up on my lap so I can scratch her head when I make a specific sound. Or jump off the table if I clap my hands and speak loudly even though I've never hit her. She just does these things like we do, but she's not sure why or exactly what we want.

WSS

@westside-steve said:

Or is either above or outside that particular fray since the Lord perceives and understands the universe in yways we are unable to.

WSS

@oldbrownsfan said:

From what I read about Albert Einstein he was one who believed in God but could not believe in a personal God because of some of the very things you listed...

The "God" that Einstein refered to was not the concept of God that I assume you believe in. Einstein's position was more pantheistic:

"Let us remind ourselves of the terminology.

A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the universe in the first place, is still around to oversee and influence the subsequent fate of his initial creation. In many theistic belief systems, the deity is intimately involved in human affairs. He answers prayers; forgives or punishes sins; intervenes in the world by performing miracles; frets about good and bad deeds, and knows when we do them (or even think about doing them).

A deist, too, believes in a supernatural intelligence, but one whose activities were confined to setting up the laws that govern the universe in the first place. The deist God never intervenes thereafter, and certainly has no specific interest in human affairs.

Pantheists don't believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe, or for the lawfulness that governs its workings.

Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles.

Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intellegence, rather than the pantheist's metaphoric or poetic synonym for the laws of the Universe. Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism"

- Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

...I think it is easier to see that there is a Creator God in all of this but It is harder to believe in a personal God however the bible is clear that God is a personal God and the cross is enough proof of that to me as a believer. The answers to the questions most skeptics have of a personal God are revealed in the bible.

Using that logic, Muslims can claim the same thing about Allah and Muhammed, using the Koran.

@fairhooker11 said:

an honest look at your life and events can be a reason to believe in the supernatural triune God

How so?