RORooinek
Captain18,117 posts
RORooinekCaptain18,117 posts
31 Aug 2020, 10:08#4
Well, he KNOWS that we're all going to die and only a blithering idiot or brainwashed zealot would disagree.
Don't see him claiming to KNOW any more than that . . . unlike you claiming that you KNOW there are UFOs because you saw a picture where someone chucked a car hubcap in the air and snapped a photo.
LMAO!

sharkbok
Captain23,444 posts

sharkbokCaptain23,444 posts
31 Aug 2020, 15:48#9
Is Bum Plum still pretending that he is not religious -just because it isn't cool nowadays to admit that you are religious?
Even the most God-fearing happy-clappy has major doubts about if an afterlife exists. It could all be a hoax, and just a made-up tale created by primitive people.
RORooinek
Captain18,117 posts
RORooinekCaptain18,117 posts
31 Aug 2020, 16:50#11
"Lol, you do know that agnosticism isn't a religion, right?"
Says the drooling half-wit who thinks atheism is.
An agnostic is just a wishy-washy atheist without any real conviction.
"I don't believe in a god . . . but I'm not saying there isn't one just in case there is . . . so I'm keeping my options open . . . ".
LMAO!
Richard Dawkins sums up the agnostics quite well . . .
"It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is there evidence against his existence. So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"
Exactly right. I don't belive there's a god and I don't believe there are fairies at the bottom of the garden. A true agnostic wouldn't be sure of either.
Weak, simpering little fence-sitters too afraid to nail their colours to a mast. Not surprising to see Ayling fall into this category.

sharkbok
Captain23,444 posts

sharkbokCaptain23,444 posts
01 Sept 2020, 20:18#16
When I hear the religious talking about the afterlife, it just sounds like self-preservation. (e.g. who is going to save you?)
They are not talking about being religious as a means to being good people for the sake of it.
They talk about their membership program of a specific religion - that entitles them to an afterlife.
So sinning is allowed, as long as you become reborn again you will get into heaven. (The reward and punishment to sanction behaviour).
When religious talk about other religions, they dismiss it them as BS. For example, many Christians write off the Catholic Church and Pope as BS. (Catholics make up more than 50% of the Christian faith).
Or they write off Judaism, Hinduism. Muslim etc as BS. Yet they want other people to respect their religion- or at least their brand of religion. Israelites write Jesus off as BS, and he was the king of the Jews.
The reality is that when life ends, our fates may just be to rot away as a corpse. However, if some form of an afterlife exists, what are the chances of one religion being correct. So only one religion would go to heaven, and everyone else would rot in hell. Sure...