Not at all. Atheism however…….

Nope, most people would consider that rude.

I don’t need religion to laugh in a pessimistic disjointed way. Humanity provides so many other opportunities.

I prefer to laugh in an optimistic and disappointed kind of way.

skippy, if you dont want to beleive in religons then dont. But keep your damn mouth shut because your makeing the rest of us athiests who are intelegent enough to debate it look like a bunch of intolorant inbreeds.

Professing to be wise, they became fools – Romans 1

Fools laughter sounds kind of like hyena’s laugh

It is sad, however, the truth is that most people are not fundies. Most Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and others just want to get on with their lives, and most admit that aspects of their faith are not really relevant to their lives, especially in the modern world.

Religion is failing, and the fundies are only getting louder because they know they are failing.

yes , and that is why I chose a BETTER and Living Way; Jesus Christ is LORD

No, but actually knowing there are people that think the way you do, make me shake my head in wonder.

Religion yes
But not Salvation

Totally. I almost want to become a politician just so I can say I don’t believe in god but still hold a high office. That would be so cool! If people asked me for my religious affiliation I would say “Humanist” and if someone asked me what my political affiliation was I would say “Humanism”. Maybe then more and more people would stand up and say “I don’t know if god exists and I don’t care because if god actually wanted me to worship him and have certain opinions about things then he can tell it to my face!”

WOW! Is that really a moral attitude – to tell lies about others? If so, you can keep it. I’ll stick with GOD’S idea of morality of honesty!

The Bible doesn’t talk about magical trees or talking snakes. It DOES, however talk about a tree that was forbidden, and about ONE snake (not “snakes”) that was given power of speech, and because it was abused, was taken away.

What I don’t understand is why people can still cling to the outdated notion that inanimate goo can suddenly change into animate life, when all the scientific discoveries of this 21st century, into the internal structure and function of the DNA molecule state that evolution is absolutely impossible, with a NEGATIVE chance of ever occurring!

In fact, even the outspoken atheist, Dr. Flew, had to finally renounce evolution as impossible!

And even the pretend “evidence” for prehistoric beings have been refuted by HONEST scientists. One such skeleton was built up from the tooth of a boar (a wild PIG!), while another was built by assembling the jaw of an ape with the skull of a human, and yet another was literally planted in advance so that it could later be found as “evidence”, and one was put together from bones that had been collected over a 100 mile radius! (How’s THAT for intellectual honesty!)

If it were up to evolutionists, we would still be goat-herders, living in caves!

Well, I would like to invite you to join us here in the 21st century, where science is refuting the goat-herder, cave-man myths of evolution!

How you can actually believe that drivel totally amazes me!

:The silliness of it all is unparalleled.

Evolution seems to make everything else in existence look incredibly rational by comparison.

Can ANY one think of evolution and NOT just laugh at it?

And it’s always a somewhat disenchanted, “I’m-embarrassed-that-my-fellow-humans-actually-think-this-crap-is-real” sort of laugh.”

No, because laughing at people, being pessimistic and disappointed in them is too egotistical. It makes you sound like you think you’re somehow better than everyone else even though you possess the same physical and mental and psychological and spiritual capacity of just about everyone else, most likely. I try to figure out WHY people believe the things they believe in the way they believe them. Why do you assume that MOST Christians and people with other beliefs actually believe that the Bible/other stories/myths literally happened and are not tales created to convey messages and teach lessons of life? Are they so embarrassing, ridiculous, silly, and irrational then?

What if the stories were created by spiritual leaders who used contemplation, meditation, and trance to gather stories from the Divine and bring them back to the people in an understandable way? You could easily call that philosophical thinking or true experiences of God/s, depending on their perspective and personal beliefs, and be perfectly okay with the stories and experiences that come out of it.

Of course the tales of any religion are going to be outrageous to people who are rational and think the tales are supposed to be actual events that happened in this world and this state of consciousness and with the laws of existence and physics that we all interact with throughout our lives. Try thinking of the stories as experiences in the mind that teach us something and, voila! They all make sense.

Of course, the argument is that some people DO believe that the stories in the Bible or other religious texts literally happened. I don’t understand that either, but I don’t laugh at them for their “irrationality” or anything like that. They just have a different, more magical perspective of the world. That’s okay and usually harmless, even if it’s difficult to sometimes have conversations about it with them.

Everyone has a different position on the path to salvation. Some are devout, but locked into a dogmatic belief system that may limit them. Others are wandering in the wilderness of the intellect, misunderstanding things the intellect is far too small to grasp. Many simply can’t see that the transcendent extends far beyond the illusion they are hiding in.

Remember that willingness to have the Spirit guide us is all that is required, and obviously within the reach of all.