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If you disregard fairy tales, you won't be able to distinguish fact from fiction. It is only through comparative analysis that you can form distinctions. A sign of a closed mind incapable of learning is a mind that disregards what it does not understand or believe or agree with.
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No, the mark of a closed mind is a man who is taught Christianity since childhood and so never questions it, but rather finds excuses to ignore scientific evidence and attributes his excuses to faith.
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It's exactly what the Christian God has done and it's not bad, it's wonderful. Look what Paul said:
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For as I passed by and saw the things you worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you.
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Excuse me, but that doesn't seem like God revealing himself to anybody, it seems like Paul preaching about his own God.
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In too many ways to tell.
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Oh, please do tell. Humor me.
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So, then, we don't exist because of this? What's your point?
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Why would you believe an omnipotent God, able to end all suffering with a single thought would exist? Every time evidence is brought against Christianity, Christians fall back on "faith". Well, God hasn't earned any faith.
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I want you to consider that you don't have a clue as to what you are saying. Perhaps what you meant to say is that God has really not earned YOUR faith. Speak for yourself, not for others.
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God hasn't earned anybody's faith, and I'd like you to give me one single reason why He has earned yours.
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Think again. What you have been given was through no effort of yours.
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This is exactly the kind of crap that Christianity spews all the time. My parents are downstairs making dinner right now. They earned that food, they worked hard at their jobs, and to attribute it to God is quite frankly an insult. When I move out of here, I am going to have to work to support myself, and I will earn money to buy myself a house. God isn't going to give it to me, and what you have just said has no truth in it whatsoever.
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If you had ever read it you would know that to be false.
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I have read it, and I see no reason to believe a word that it says. A document is not proof of its own truth.