The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161997   Message #3855148
Posted By: Jim Carroll
15-May-17 - 02:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
Subject: RE: BS: Stephen Fry Blasphemy
"No Jim, Keith has put forward examples of people who have experienced God or the works of God, "
No he isn't - he has put up everything from spooks to spiritualists
Don't think he's got round to David Blaine or David Nixon yet - early days!!
"No one can say there is definitely no God, because......"
In two millenia nobody has been able to produce a single shred of evidence of his existence
He remains, like the 'Flat Earth" theory, a primitive attempt to explain the world which has long been discarded
Even the Church has been forced to backtrack on some of its long held outrageous claims like angels and eternal Paradise
Now some of its most fundamental beliefs are being challenged FROM WITHIN
The concept of a supreme being has always been an utter nonsense, yet people have been living under the threat of eternal damnation for questioning it since its inception.
Hypocrites such as yourself target other religions, like Islam, for their faith, yet interference of the minds of children from their earliest days are passed through on the nod as long as the persecutors are of the right colour and culture or if they don't threaten "our jobs and apprentice training schemes"
It is attitudes like this that expose the real threat of religion, or "our traditional values" as you choose to describe it.
Religion, when practiced voluntarily and consciously, is fine.
When the practitioners adhere to the humanistic ("liberal!!!") principles of their religion, it is even to be welcomed and encouraged.
In the hands of bigots and hate-merchants such as yourself, it is tyranny's oldest and most effective weapon.
Jim Carroll