WOTM: Evidence & Change, Part I
Hey Gang!!! Sorry to load these up on the last day of the month, but I had the worst case of writter's block I've had since Mr. Deity and the Void (where I learned my lesson about trying to write a compelling story featuring a lead character who is an immaterial Being living in a timeless void of nothingness — find the story in THAT ONE!!!). Anyway, I have part II of this video coming as well. But this one is about all the evidence that SHOULD exist to convince me of God's existence. And I'm not talking about anything crazy! Just the stuff that should be there if the Bible where the inspired word of an all-powerful, supernatural Being. Part II deals with the way believers get around that lack of evidence as well as a bit about my own journey out of religion, and one of our apologist friends who comments on my videos frequently on YouTube. Prepare for the insanity — from an otherwise, intelligent, articulate person. WOW!!! Just...WOW!!!
Thanks again for all your help! I hope you enjoy these. They were painful for me. ;-) B
Comments (7)
Consider Genesis 3:22 (And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”) How does a belief that Adam would never have died if he hadn't "gone astray" exist in the face of this simple verse? How, could God, have condemned Adam for eating from the tree he did when he had no knowledge of right and wrong? Very perplexing.
Amen Brother Brian : )
You may be preaching to the choir, but us choristers are grateful, Brian!
Agree that your pain is our gain! As always, logical, articulate and point on. Raising my own little atheist and this will definitely be saved for future talking points! Ty
A lack of evidence is irrelevant to true blue believers. Wanting to see a swatch of cloth, a button, even just a thread before praising the Emperor's New Clothes... would be heresy in their minds. All that's needed is... [cough]... "faith." And if you present them with evidence to the contrary... their cognitive dissonance shifts into overdrive. Carl Sagan, in his "The Demon-Haunted World," put it succinctly: "If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones arise."
Thank you! It's almost like JS was prophetic or something 'cause he put all those anti Christs in the BOM who begged for "signs and wonders" (read: evidence) and in the end all admitted that they "knew" the truth all along but were under the power of the devil. Your desire for evidence is just an admission of your pure evil. Evil genius. I'd love to see you explore how an overwhelming lack of evidence can overcome the fallacy of arguing from ignorance. Thanks for making today (Supreme Court justice, Muslim ban .... I'm starting to believe all those "end times" crazies) a little better.
Your pain is our gain! Thanks again!