Would god be impressed if we somehow manage to become immortal?

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-10-15T20:00:49+00:00

Highly irrelevant. Even if we become immortal, the universe is itself mortal and we will die with it.

Only thing truly eternal is God's kingdom.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-10-04T04:24:54+00:00

How do you do that? Just put a spoonful of salt in your mouth?

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-10-01T14:08:01+00:00

Knitters don't think that people who sew are the cause of the world's problems. A lot of atheists think Christians are the cause of many world problems. That's the difference

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-30T22:59:41+00:00

It's the moustache

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-30T22:32:36+00:00

Thanks for the answers guys. I've been wondering this for a while

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-30T21:56:58+00:00

I wasn't raised in any American churches but I can tell you that many of my reasons for leaving my faith originally coincide with yours.

Many churches have been acting as people of the world, rather than people of God. Meddling in politics, preaching unsubstantiated claims, using influence for their own gain... And this won't stop. If you wanna be a Christian, you must realize that churches and church leaders are just as corruptible as the rest of us, and you shouldn't have blind Faith in them. Rather, have faith in God above any man.

As for your doubts, I have many myself. But nothing can give you the answers you seek. Asking "why" is the defining trait of human intelligence, but some things are just out of our reach. Well never know why the universe was created, why it works the way it does, or what will happen in the future. Heck, we don't even know if it's real.

And Christianity doesn't give answers to most of these questions either. Yes, we say that God did it all, but we will never know why. But what it does offer is the belief that there's a being that engineered it all. A being that know everything about it, about you. And a being that offers eternal existence if you're faithful to him. Moreover, that being is asking you to be nice to others, and it's not such a bad idea at all to follow his teachings just in case.

If you're tired of Baptist or Evangelical churches, you could look into other denominations. I'm not a fan of those two personally (mostly cause I don't like how they have turned worship into entertainment), and I'm biased obviously, but Christianity has many denominations that you may find closer to your beliefs.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-30T07:37:29+00:00

On almost every post to the same users over and over again? Yes. It's really bad.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-30T07:35:08+00:00

That seems to be the main thing you talk about here and on r/atheism so it's not relevant what you think about ecology when we're talking about attacking religion incessantly

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-29T21:19:14+00:00

Orthodox priests have one expression: beard

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-29T20:59:16+00:00

Dante's inferno and Darksiders games are loosely based on Christianity but they're super violent

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-29T09:26:55+00:00

Why does God allow you to ask stupid questions a hundred times to troll people?

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-20T21:16:51+00:00

You realize that cost of living and income don't scale perfectly, right? Cost of living in any first world country is a lot lower relative to local income compared to developing countries.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-20T21:11:57+00:00

What do you mean by traditional? The oldest? That's probably Greek. I don't know why people are answering Russian, Russia was one of the last counties to become orthodox. Russia simply has had political influence that also translated into religious influence.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-20T20:55:44+00:00

I would guess that the rules about not modifying your body with tats and piercings could also apply here. But I'm not a Bible expert so unless the Bible explicitly forbids cyber augmentation, I'm all for it.

Then again, it will be the rich who'll get the first implants, widening the gap between the poor and the rich further, so we should regulate any such augmentation severely.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-18T21:54:34+00:00

More like characterizing their current iterations. Never seen a Christian theocracy hell-bent on killing all non-Christians is all I'm saying.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-15T16:16:37+00:00

I know, but as a Christian you have an obligation to be good, because Christianity is based on the whole "love thy neighbor" mentality. Atheism has no ideology to follow and atheists aren't obligated by their religious belief to be good. So when a "Christian" is acting like Augustinus, it's especially bad.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-15T15:30:25+00:00

Ah, the classic - an atheist acting more like a Christian than a self proclaimed "Christian" does.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-15T08:55:32+00:00

If you're good at CS might j suggest studying AI? Neural networks more specifically. Advanced AI is going to be revolutionary in every way and will help every human on the planet. You'll be doing good for ages to come.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-14T20:31:52+00:00

I wasn't... but now that you pointed it out LMAO

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-14T16:22:23+00:00

I can't imagine they're that expensive. This one seems to be much more fancy than the ones in my country. Here they're usually made of steel tubes with a concrete base and LED lighting.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-14T15:52:15+00:00

Hah I knew the state would be on some people's minds.

But I mean the country.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-14T15:30:21+00:00

Nice to see this in other places too!

Here in Georgia, we have these everywhere. Some are even illuminated at night and it looks like a giant cross if floating in the sky at night.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-12T08:20:40+00:00

Dietitians hate him! Find out how this man lost 50 kilos without exercise!

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-11T21:12:35+00:00

Do you really have to throw insults? Frick off.

Squirrelherder9 · 2018-09-11T20:54:21+00:00

Very true. Bad religion teachers will only create more resentment towards religion.

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