The TRAs pushed shit too far. Couldn't leave kids alone. Had to shove their agenda down our throats and parade it around, like it was such an accomplishment to wear falsies and a dress.
Yeah, human intelligence/knowledge is way too limited to make any certain claims about this kind of shit. We can get first hand statements from people who have started to die, usually seeing a white light etc, but that's about it as we don't have necromancy.
You can reasonably dismiss claims without evidence, burden of proof and all that. But I don't call myself an atheist because you can't disprove every single god that has ever been thought up, let alone the ones that haven't been thought up yet. Although most religions do attempt that, whilst excluding the one they personally agree with the most lol. Atheists just go one step/religion further and are slightly more consistent with it, but are still guilty of the exact same conceit.
Nah I think I getcha, I'm more on the agnostic side personally. Hoping the Norse were right, Valhalla sounds like the coolest afterlife. None of us can know until it's too late to know, as death is brain death and our brains are how we comprehend anything. Maybe it depends how we go, what parts of our brains die first etc?
Idgaf what people believe though, until they start inflicting it onto others. Which is what the religious/woke left have exponentially done since occupy wallstreet. I also don't think this leftist cult's growth was organic, it's too convenient that the left and right got blown apart from each other this much right when everyone was united against the bankers after they fucked us without lube.
OWS was totally subverted. Also, on the same page with you - mostly. It's pretty obvious that something created reality around us; but I also find claiming that you can nail that something down, along with all the details about the beginning, middle, and end, from human sources with absolute certainty is a hubris on par with an atheist.
all the religion thing .. i myself lean towards Christianity , but pretty well keep it to myself.. i dont like "holy rollers" much.. but im appalled by those things considering themselves religious .. sorry i dont make much sense , im retarded :p
The way I see it, they're just part of a religion that doesn't want the consequences and responsibilities of being called a religion. Wokeism/fagism, whatever you want to call it they don't have an official name, and they wanted their religion to dominate culture. We have the human right to be free from religion, yet they bypassed that by claiming it was something else. I think it's easily justifiable to find people that want to strip your human rights morally offensive tbh, some are definitely going to take it too far against their meatshield of mentally unhealthy people rather than the ideologues though. I'm hoping we get asylums back.
Yeah, the gays just allegedly wanted to push their mental disorder/sexuality onto religions and infringe upon the freedom of (and from) religion. They wanted an exclusive privilege to infringe upon the rights of the religious, that no other mental disorder/sexuality had. Then when they got that foothold, they pushed and pushed and pushed against other human rights. Then it was "the human right to not be offended" and the vague and hilarious "tHeY jUsT wAnT tHe rIgHt tO eXiIiIiIsSsSsSsSt". Which actually meant, fuck the genuine human right enshrined in US law of free speech.
Know what easy and basic thing could've dismantled all of that shit from day 1? Just legally buff up civil partnerships to marriage's status, it's just a contract with the government and that's what they claimed they wanted. Know what could've dismantled all the bathroom shit? Unisex bathrooms, bathrooms built to safely be used by both sexes with sane straight men around to beat the shit out of pedophiles and other rapists. But they only ever wanted special privileges, and wrapped it up as "equal treatment" and "human rights" to be more marketable.
I do still feel sorry for the alphabettis that are genuinely victims of mental disorders and LGBTMNOPs, but every single activist and slacktivist deserves what they're going to get imo. No matter how violent the return swing of the political pendulum is, as they caused it to get that extreme that fast. Fuck 'em.
This is the fucking thing that gets me, they HAD and STILL HAVE rights. Human rights. That's all they claimed they wanted, to be treated "equal" to others. Trans rights on the other hand means special privileges, which infringe upon the basic human rights of others.
Throw him in the fucking chipper, he's learned nothing he's just upset that he's losing now.
That's the shit I hate about modern cosmology - we can only observe shit down to specific levels and even then, it's not with complete understanding. Instead of saying we don't know, we get "well here's theory that has been matched to our mathematical abstractions with zero evidence." This also goes light speed in the opposite direction, where for nearly a century, we have "well our observations of galaxy rotations have blown gravity based theory out of the water, so uhhh here's dark matter which by definition can't be observed, to fix the problem. Please send more grants, thanks."
> From a historiographical perspective, the gospels should probably be taken just as seriously as any other biography in their genre (e.g., Agricola by Tacitus)
Your example was written by the son in law of Julius Agricola, the gospels on the other hand.. Well, there are many theories of the authors there. Then there are the rewrites/reinterpretations... All with a lot more vested interest in religious motives over historical accuracy. It's been a while but I'm pretty sure that Julius Agricola's biography didn't include unfounded shit like miracles, which would further discredit the authenticity of the text. I'm also willing to bet there aren't even half as many mutually exclusive versions that again, discredit the authenticity of the text.
The historical claims for Jesus Christ's resurrection are extraordinarily compelling. History, as a discipline, doesn't prove facts, but it weighs the probability of claims and theories against each other. Modern scholastics have been doing an increasingly good job placing the historical claims of Christianity in their 1st century jewish context, allowing for very compelling arguments regarding, for example, the criterion of embarrassment.
Despite what philosophers like Hume assert, miracles aren't something we can dismiss out of hand. If you view the miracle of the resurrection like any other historical claim, there are few arguments against it and many coherent arguments for it. From a historiographical perspective, the gospels should probably be taken just as seriously as any other biography in their genre (e.g., Agricola by Tacitus). Textual criticism heavily supports this conclusion.
You can't really discount miracles without a reason, the logic is circular. We don't believe in historical claims in miracles because we don't have evidence for miracles. We don't have evidence for miracles because we dismiss claims of miracles out of hand. They should be held to the same standard as any other historical claim.
Most historical events of importance are documented in multiple sources that have certain conflicting details, but if they agree on certain claims, those claims have weight.
The circular logic is believing a text because the text says it comes from an unquestionable source. Discounting claims that have zero credible evidence is completely reasonable, both of us do it daily. Claims require evidence, supernatural claims require more evidence. Again, I'm sure we both dismiss ridiculous claims that are without evidence all the time. There's nothing circular about that logic.
Most historical sources don't include talking snakes and other fantasy elements, we also still account for the bias involved in the sources except when it comes to religion's sources. Weird huh?