Anyone an Aspie?

[Smiley]

He meant rule by force. Spare the rod, spoil the child. My parents certainly didn't spare it. They even broke a few against my body.

 

[MrDawn]

Religious people aren't necessarily poorly educated, but they are misguided in their believes. Tempest said it well:

Exactly. For example, according to the Christian book of Genesis, verse 1:28, God said to Adam and Eve: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the Earth.”

So, Christians take this for granted and use it as an excuse when someone asks them 'why do you have so many children'. Ergo, 'I'm going to have as many children as God wants me to' logic.

Better educated individuals who were trained in the art of critical thinking are more likely to question everything and demand hard evidence instead of just blindly accepting "because it says so in the Bible" argument, like religious people do.

God wants me to have children? Eh? Say what? God? What is this "God" you speak of? Your only "evidence" is some ancient book written by a human hand? Aha. Okay.

The Bible even asserts that we originated as Homo Sapiens and according to Forensic Anthropology and Paleontology. That is empirically wrong. The Bible makes a lot of assertions. It doesn't verify the existence of a deity or a magical prophet.

As an aside....

Christopher Hitchens begs to differ. When one makes a claim, they automatically accept The Burden of Proof. Fulton J Sheen is making a "claim". Did he ever provide and demonstrate objective evidence for the existence of any deity? I highly doubt it.

Stephen Hawking, one of the best physicists in our time saw it to be empirically impossible for a deity to exist as there is no objective evidence supporting such a claim. No amount of belief makes something a fact. One cannot argue a god into existence.

Richard Dawkins even concludes that there is no evidence supporting a deity ever existed.

 

[Smiley]

The Bible even asserts that we originated as Homo Sapiens and according to Forensic Anthropology and Paleontology. That is empirically wrong.

Bingo. The Bible claims God has created us in his image, but how can anyone know that for sure if God never showed his face to anyone? Assuming he exists, no one knows what God really looks like. He could look like a giant bug for all I know, which, incidentally, would explain where Franz Kafka got an inspiration for Gregor Samsa.

When one makes a claim, they automatically accept The Burden of Proof.

 

[MrDawn]

Bingo. The Bible claims God has created us in his image, but how can anyone know that for sure if God never showed his face to anyone? Assuming he exists, no one knows what God really looks like. He could look like a giant bug for all I know, which, incidentally, would explain where Franz Kafka got an inspiration for Gregor Samsa.

Or he could be the Wizard of Oz.

 

[Smiley]

I'm gonna let Beverly Crusher speak on my behalf:

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