Is it a sign of our times that people widely believe concepts like religion need to be 'proven' in order to be valid, especially supposed intelligentsia? I feel like this is the end of the world, or at least humanity.
Is it a sign of our times that people widely believe concepts like religion need to be 'proven' in order to be valid...
Jose Butler
Luis Watson
What kind of a ridiculous question is that?
Nicholas Green
Atheism is the only religion that pretends it's not a religion, user.
William Hill
I think it is a pretty good question. I don't see why this mode of existence is worth preserving.
Carter Reyes
if anything it's just the end of another cycle; another downfall of civilisation into a new one. unless Armageddon happens
Luke Taylor
The anti-intellectual sentiment that religion need not be true, that it exists purely for political or social purposes, is exactly the reason religion is on the decline.
Luis Hall
>religion need not be true, that it exists purely for political or social purposes
nowhere did i even imply this
Camden Foster
where's the statue from?
Caleb Morgan
>Is it a sign of our times that people widely believe concepts like religion need to be 'proven' in order to be valid
Then what is this intended to mean?
Kevin Martinez
That people cannot understand that religion must be taken axiomatically, on faith, and would rather just parrot things like "well prove God exists."
Justin Carter
Precisely. That sentiment you've just expressed is heretical, and the reason the Faith is dying. The correct and Christian response is 'Fine I'll prove it', followed by appeals to history, logic, theology, prophecy, and philosophy.
Joshua Powell
based and redpilled and correct
Brody Gomez
>appeals to history, logic, theology, prophecy, and philosophy
These are all philosophical. However, all of this has to occur under the context of faith and authority of scripture.
People want to be able to point out God under a microscope, that is what I am seeing today. Rationalism has gotten the Church in a lot of trouble in the past and it is now worse than ever. There must be balance.
Austin Jones
LMAO putting your faith in "God" is retarded, might as well put your blind faith in the idea of Eternal Life.
Mason Ward
>this is the end if the world
They've been saying this since millenia.
Ryder Hernandez
Nonsense, the authority of Scripture is substantiated by these things. The very word Faith has been distorted. The word in Greek is Pistis and its literal meaning is 'to be persuaded'. The people who hold 'faith' today have not been persuaded. The word faith today means belief in the lack of evidence, or more seriously in SPITE of the evidence. In short the biblical sin of delusion is the real meaning of Faith in the minds of the modern believer. What little wonder that people as philosophically shallow as the modern atheist is able to run rings around them. If you want to know why the churches are empty and God's throne covered in thick darkness don't look back to some imaginary prehistory when people just took your word for it. Rather look to the prophet Hosea who laments [albeit in different context] the true tragedy of the Age.
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!"
Wyatt Gonzalez
What is the difference?
Levi Parker
To me, Christianity is the refinement of the self in a very specific manner, in which behavior leading away from a sense of fulfillment is labeled as irrational desire resulting from original sin, which we overcome through virtue bolstered and made whole by faith, i.e. attempting to bring one's self in line with the 'absolute good,' or God. It seems more like a goal than something that is objectively true from a rationalist's point of view, you can't point to some man in the sky and say "this is god." It is all abstract.
Joseph Rogers
Both of you talk like fags. Either repent and profess your faith in Christ, or get the fuck back to re*dit goddamn underage big brain fedoras
Chase Sanchez
>religion must be taken axiomatically, on faith
Then it shouldn't be taken at all.
If something is not true you shouldn't act as if it is
Ryan Hernandez
Well, I guess nothing is true then.
Mason Turner
>Fine I'll prove it', followed by appeals to history, logic, theology, prophecy, and philosophy
But that doesn't work. None of those things offer any proof for religion. Except theology and philosophy because they're bullshit fields for dumbasses.
Blake Hill
Logic and faith are linked by rationality. One cannot rationally lack faith in that which is known through logic, or have faith in anything that cannot be logically identified. Those who attempt to drive a wedge between faith and logic, or faith and knowledge, are up to no good.
Joseph Sanders
Shut the fuck up with that faggot speak. Schools out for summer and all you fedoras come out with your stupid fag words. We get it your smart now go jack off to some big brain YouTube debate video
Nathan Walker
Yeah and they masqaurade in the regions of mightly intellect
Jeremiah Mitchell
Are you mad people found out it is all a poorly patched together kike LARP, gaslighted golem?
Blake Clark
based and rationalpilled.
Religion is in decline because it's somewhat easily falsifiable. Not in the sense of proving it incorrect but proving it's alleged axioms incorrect; plus the whole lack of reproducibility of miracles and, it's indistinguishable from good enough fantasy.
Jose Scott
>proving it's alleged axioms incorrect
Well, lets hear it then.
Nathaniel Smith
Christfags fuck off. Follow your biological imperative and follow the gods of your pre-Christian ancestors. Universalist death cults are psychologically, spiritually, and physiologically retarded.
Parker Edwards
>Atheism is the only religion that pretends it's not a religion, user.
Atheism is not a religion but a personal relationship with Athe.
Jonathan Ward
>Universalist death cults
The religions you posted had literal human sacrifices.