*yawn*
Why on earth did we need God to say that? I could have told someone all that myself and I'm not exactly divine.
Why on earth did we need God to say that? I could have told someone all that myself and I'm not exactly divine.
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Fundos really get on my nerves! Especially Sojourner 
And the search goes on. A recent study, involving Muslims, Christians and other faiths, studied on a large scale the impact that prayer had on the health of the sick. The result? It made no darn difference whatsoever!
Link:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/15/MNGEODOHHQ1.DTL
It's equally odd how you claim there's "historical" evidence. Having studied Ancient History some time ago, I can tell you, for instance, that not one Roman Historian so much as mentions the events surrounding Jesus in the province of Judea from 0-33AD.
Another fact tof "historical" evidence is that it has to be treated with criticism and scepticism. If it doesn't stand up to the most rigid scrutiny, we're forced to discard it. The Bible as historical evidence, with this in mind, isn't worth much, especially when considering something so major as a belief in God - and a consequent eternal enlightenment or perpetual condemnation (the latter for me and Scattered, obviously).
So unless you can present some kind of evidence, besides just telling us it exists, I think a rational person is forced to conclude that either (A) God does not exist, or (B) God may exist and have created the universe, but since he hasn't left much evidence of himself or what he wants us to do he doesn't care how we act.
Neither conclusion leads to a faith in God, let alone one religion over another.
It's odd, isn't it? Scientists have been looking for any evidence of God over the last 300 years or so, many with the expectation that there would be something - if we can't observe God, you'd think that he'd at least leave some pretty clear signs that he's around. So far, not a shred of evidence has turned up.
And the search goes on. A recent study, involving Muslims, Christians and other faiths, studied on a large scale the impact that prayer had on the health of the sick. The result? It made no darn difference whatsoever!
Link:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/15/MNGEODOHHQ1.DTL
It's equally odd how you claim there's "historical" evidence. Having studied Ancient History some time ago, I can tell you, for instance, that not one Roman Historian so much as mentions the events surrounding Jesus in the province of Judea from 0-33AD.
Another fact tof "historical" evidence is that it has to be treated with criticism and scepticism. If it doesn't stand up to the most rigid scrutiny, we're forced to discard it. The Bible as historical evidence, with this in mind, isn't worth much, especially when considering something so major as a belief in God - and a consequent eternal enlightenment or perpetual condemnation (the latter for me and Scattered, obviously).
So unless you can present some kind of evidence, besides just telling us it exists, I think a rational person is forced to conclude that either (A) God does not exist, or (B) God may exist and have created the universe, but since he hasn't left much evidence of himself or what he wants us to do he doesn't care how we act.
Neither conclusion leads to a faith in God, let alone one religion over another.
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