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Weeeell, I suppose it depends upon how you _define_ fact...
There are facts like 2+2=4 and then there are the facts like "Jesus woke up for the Sunday Easter Egg Hunt." Okay, okay, all you Christians...I am just in a weird mood....
posted by
FactorFiction
on November 3, 2005 at 10:56 AM
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mikebrown -- you've given me an idea for a post with your comment
posted by
gomedome
on November 2, 2005 at 7:47 PM
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i like your concluding point
that this stuff is actually evidence of very, very flawed thinking. the logical fallacies used by religious people fuckin astound me.
well, sort of. the people don't really astound me, but the fact that so MANY people have the same problem thinking with clear, lateral reasoning really does.
i think the best arguement against evolution is that natural selection never weeded these people out a long, long time ago. hmmmm.
posted by
mikebrown
on November 2, 2005 at 6:33 PM
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ok that's good
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 2, 2005 at 1:53 PM
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Hemlocker - no real surprise that amongst 35,000 Christian denominations
worldwide, that they cannot agree who is one of them or not. ...thanx for stopping bye.
posted by
gomedome
on November 2, 2005 at 1:38 PM
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gome--
I thought it was Mormons who are not considered Christians--by everyone but themselves.
posted by
Hemlocker
on November 2, 2005 at 1:30 PM
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gome--
When I was young, I based my life on Jughead. I love to read the comments that come back to you, especially from such as "No Peace" who is #10 in Opinion, with "Homosexuality." Oh, my!
posted by
Hemlocker
on November 2, 2005 at 1:29 PM
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Xeno-x -- I heard a bad joke concerning invasion of other countries by
armies that are predominantly Christian. Where the Moslems refer to their holy wars as a Jihad, we refer to them as a Yeehawed.
posted by
gomedome
on November 2, 2005 at 10:51 AM
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ok
Christians in the U.S.
Catholics are a minority of that group.
majority worldwide for obvious reasons
but in the U.S., that's where we are operating anyway --
our futile contentions here arn's taken so seriously elsewhere, or sometimes are laughed at except when our (not my) religion sparks invasion of other countries (possibly)
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 2, 2005 at 10:40 AM
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jollyjeff -- no doubt, I think the insanity exists in trying to apply parts
of it, that no longer fit our modern day knowledge base.
posted by
gomedome
on November 2, 2005 at 8:46 AM
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The Bible contains both
a lot of wisdom and a lot of stupidity.
posted by
jollyjeff
on November 2, 2005 at 8:36 AM
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Xeno-x --I don't know if you can say that the existence of the Holy Trinity
is a belief held by a minority of Christians. Protestent Christians maybe, but consider that the Catholics hold this belief as demonstrated in the "sign of the cross", which is accompanied by a small prayer:....."In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit." ...this is of course assuming that Catholics are considered Christians.
posted by
gomedome
on November 2, 2005 at 7:56 AM
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yeah well
there is no real "trinity" expounded on in the New Testament.
Many Christians consider this a falsity.
they consider the "Holy Spirit" to be an "essence" rather than a person.
so certain Christians consider it not to be real.
we have a great divide among Christians.
prominent groups align on both sides
so how can one side persist in telling you how real it is.
and then we consider that this Trinitarian view is held by a minority of Christians.
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 2, 2005 at 7:08 AM
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you mean, Archie comics aren't a true story? ; )
posted by
-blackcat
on November 2, 2005 at 6:50 AM
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