Civil Discussion About Religion

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by jsarno

Have you ever heard the expression that when you point your finger, there are 3 pointing back at you?
You have talked about having lively debate, but most everyone here has been calm and provided ample info to wrap your mind around (for or against religion / evolution) but you use anger, profanity and demean people. Why?
This is my last response to you. Some people are just closed minded and they can't think outside the box...you my friend are the poster child at this point.
When you make a comment we look at it and evaluate it. When we make a comment, it's like you don't even read the entire post, you just instantly go into attack mode. It doesn't make for lively debate.
I'm not trying to attack you, if you feel I have, I am sorry for that. Just remember you can learn something from the oldest man, or the youngest child. I learn something every day from the oddest places.

I seem close minded to you because I'm unwilling to go on faith alone regarding the existence of God. I was engaging the morons in this thread who tried to present "scientific" evidence that the theory of evolution has been disproven. I won't apologize for coming harsh at someone who does that. Everyone knows that there is no scientific evidence disproving the theory of evolution. If there was, it would never be taught in our public schools again. Giving me a link to some guy's musings and passing it off as scientific proof is nothing short of retarded, and quite frankly, insulting to my intelligence.

I have no problem with your views at all. I think if you believe in it, that's great. There really is no harm in being religious at all (as long as you don't organize against other faiths or discriminate against other faiths, and I don't think you do). What I have a problem with is trying to pass off a heaping pile of crap as actual evidence. I mean we all went to high school right? We all know that evidence needs to come from credible sources, right? We know that if we write a term paper and say something like E=MC2 (my friend James told me so). No, we have to put E=MC2 (Einstein).

Just like in Redskin related threads we ask for links to news stories, I'm doing the same thing here. You can't come on the board making claims that aren't true and then go linking to some hack. Again, the problem wasn't with his or your belief. The problem was with the style of debate.

Religion is all about faith. For anyone to think they can prove the existence of God, then they don't even understand religion at all. His existence cannot be proven. You can only believe in him based on faith. That's the entire point of religion: believe in Him and ye shall be saved.