Do-or-Die wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:14 pm
OK I will bite. This guy has incredible oratorical skills. I am not sure everyone will agree with his views but man this monologue is incredible
https://youtu.be/P4dSiHqpULk
Lol, just sounded like an angry rant to me.
I think agreeing to disagree is the best way forward when calm discussion breaks down, but I fear that people with this type of attitude with the right power can lead others to dire consequences. I've seen this kind of atheistic aggressive lambasting quite a few times and you normally find in their background some childhood hurt where they probably felt abandoned by God. They then feel the need to get angry at God who they say they don't believe in or at believers in him!
Faith isn't the absence of evidence so he knows nothing, look at this explanation from the Bible itself.
Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.
Yes if you believe that all we have in existence is the physical dimension and evidence can only be from our physical in nature then you might struggle with this but I would say such a person is narrow minded. There's a denial in acting in such a way that there exists something called love and morality but at the same time preaching that our brains are merely a complex computer. As I've said before if morality is not absolute then anyone can justify anything based on it being their own moral system. Actually take the massive faith position of atheism, boil it down and what you have is a nihilistic worldview without any meaning, love, morality, a big fat nothing but do they act like that? I wonder how the man reacts when his grandchild wants the tooth fairy to visit, does he berate the child!

And there lies the problem with atheists like him, they cannot live out their preaching.
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:14
Is the above Bible verse true or not, if pride is stopping you from seeking it's truth then whose the ostrich burying its head in the sand. It is stating something that has no physical properties, the Spirit.
I have faith but I don't go to a building or organisation called a church, I meet people in community, I try to live out my faith by practicing the teachings in particular of Christ, I feel incredibly free but I do understand some of the bondage claims that certain churches place upon people which is anti Jesus's teachings.
Sol and I in particular have had healthy rigorous debates over faith but we do I think have a healthy respect for one another if not accepting each other's beliefs.
Remember atheism is merely another belief system or faith position.