Is Christianity In Trouble?

[BrainSmashR]

Originally Posted by Al Swearengen

Rhertz is exactly right. Somebody in your position, if they had any sense, wouldnt be churning out a bunch of dumb-ass posts (not that I dont enjoy them) on an internet messege board, unless ofcourse its all part of your brilliant strategy to convince the authorities that youre a complete imbecile and thus incapable of committing the crime. I've heard of the "insanity defense", but the "stupidity defense"? I suggest you find yourself a new lawyer. You aint the sharpest knife in the drawer, are ya boy? Bout as sharp as a sack o wet mice.

Yes well that's what happens when you have two apparent idiots who take statements out of context then jump to conclusions.

[BrainSmashR]

Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

I understand your position on this topic. I agree that as childbirth, in itself, is easily explanable on a scientific basis and thus is not a miracle. It's true that conception has not only been explained, but observed through a microscope. There is nothing miraculous about this process.

However, the feelings you experience when that moment happens to you is nothing short of miraculous. The miracle in childbirth, though not the process itself, is how this simple process can bring an immeasurable degree of happiness and joy into the lives of two lovers. How does the extraction of a large collection of accumulated chromosomes and proteins bring such a powerful wave of unparalleled joy to the very heart of your soul when you first peer into the new child's eyes? Simple! Because it's a baby, new life, and not merely a collection of chromosomes and proteins. Like any other gift in our world, it is not gift itself, but the feeling that it gives you inside. This is the miracle of childbirth.

I can agree with that assessment 100%....however, feelings of pride and joy are not exclusive to Christians, or parents and certainly don't suggest the intervention or presence of an omnipotent being....

[BrainSmashR]

Originally Posted by Neo

I have been missing in action for few days. After reviewing past replies, I think Brainsmash has won the prize for longest reply and can be named Librarian Kain for ample bibliography. Also, I would like to nominate him for master headbutter that will not conceed an inch.....I think I here the division bell!


Hey brainsmash Tom cruise is coming to town. What do you think of his religion?

"Scientology" has nothing to do with Science....

[Texasbelle]

and that would be you...........Brainsmasher. I have read this thread a couple of times since last night to be sure I did not miss anything. I wanted to be sure I was very clear on everyone's position. The thing I took away most from this is that you apparently feel that you just want to argue with anything and everything that anyone says. You are determined no matter what that you are not going to believe in God. I pity you for choosing this road, but hope that one day you will change your mind. I do believe and know that there will continue to be many times for you to make the decision to take up the cross and follow!

Above all though I feel so sad for you. Your life has most likely been full of hate, sadness, bitterness, evil, and so much hurt that you feel the need to turn it around on others. You have chosen this board and venue as one source to lash out as others. I can't help but wonder in what other ways have you lashed out? Is that perhaps the crime you've been accused of? Did it hurt someone? At what point will you begin to really take a good hard look in the mirror and see the self destruction here and realize what's really going on? All of these people here apparently, though they do seem to be tough on you at times, do care what happens to you. Most of them are probably praying for you. I will. I hope that you can find a place within yourself, your life and spend the same energy that you spend spitting venom and turn it into good. Turn that hurt and anger and defensive hostile nature over to "our higher power" God and see what can happen in your life. It looks like you've truly got nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain. There is wisdom to be learned from Isaac, and others. Try to do so and may God bless you and be with you.

[LateNight]

Welcome to SBLive! there Texasbelle. Always glad to hear from someone new.

[AnimeSpirit]

Welcome to SBLive! Texasbelle! Please don't judge Brain too harshly.

I am not saying that I totally agree with his opinions, but many of us don't agree with each other at times and some of us get so caught up in a debate that we let our proprieties slide. You can't take it personally as this applies to all of us as members of a forum. Besides that, a person with different (or even a radical) opinions often gives us perspective on our own. Why else would we be motivated to ponder our opinions without those who didn't share them?

[Neo]

I would think that if someone dislikes God as much as Brainsmash does + This is one nation under God for which it stands + The nation's dollar states In God We Trust = Brainsmash doesn't want to part of this nation....


A+B+C= X


What's holding you back from the necessary conclusion?

Nobody likes to be miserable, they usually go to a more comfortable existence

I think this equation can be proven with fact and science!!!

[AnimeSpirit]

Originally Posted by Neo

I would think that if someone dislikes God as much as Brainsmash does + This is one nation under God for which it stands + The nation's dollar states In God We Trust = Brainsmash doesn't want to part of this nation....

I may have missed a few posts, but has BrainSmasher admitted to hating God? Or has he merely stated that he doesn't believe in God. There is a difference.

[scarlett]

Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

I may have missed a few posts, but has BrainSmasher admitted to hating God? Or has he merely stated that he doesn't believe in God. There is a difference.

I don't think BrainSmasher hates God I really feel he doesn't believe in him but really only he can answer this one. I am going by all the postings he posted. He claimed to be a confirmed catholic so I don't know.

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by Texasbelle

and that would be you...........Brainsmasher. I have read this thread a couple of times since last night to be sure I did not miss anything. I wanted to be sure I was very clear on everyone's position. The thing I took away most from this is that you apparently feel that you just want to argue with anything and everything that anyone says. You are determined no matter what that you are not going to believe in God. I pity you for choosing this road, but hope that one day you will change your mind. I do believe and know that there will continue to be many times for you to make the decision to take up the cross and follow!

Above all though I feel so sad for you. Your life has most likely been full of hate, sadness, bitterness, evil, and so much hurt that you feel the need to turn it around on others. You have chosen this board and venue as one source to lash out as others. I can't help but wonder in what other ways have you lashed out? Is that perhaps the crime you've been accused of? Did it hurt someone? At what point will you begin to really take a good hard look in the mirror and see the self destruction here and realize what's really going on? All of these people here apparently, though they do seem to be tough on you at times, do care what happens to you. Most of them are probably praying for you. I will. I hope that you can find a place within yourself, your life and spend the same energy that you spend spitting venom and turn it into good. Turn that hurt and anger and defensive hostile nature over to "our higher power" God and see what can happen in your life. It looks like you've truly got nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain. There is wisdom to be learned from Isaac, and others. Try to do so and may God bless you and be with you.

I agree with your post. Sir Brain will not ever "admit" he is wrong. I am sure you will feel his flames soon as he reads this post. He will show no quarter just because you are female. He seems to like being the goat and that is ok because it is all about "choice" is it not Brain. Not all souls are not saved and as I have said in other post he has had to drink the dregs of the dark side to long and maybe like ole Darth before the end he will recant so never count that out. I hope that you will post more we need a few female voices on this page at this time there is Scarlett and Isabella both very nice ladies. I think it is about time for the Brain to punch out and get home to post so folks hang on to your hat there are many things headed toward the fan.
Isaac

[Neo]

I never said brainsmash hated God. If you review my reply again, I said he dislikes God. There is a big difference in hate and dislike......

However, I think you agree he does not like God, since he does not acknowledge his existence. Reminds me of pres. Iran and the Holocaust

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

I may have missed a few posts, but has BrainSmasher admitted to hating God? Or has he merely stated that he doesn't believe in God. There is a difference.

I sure do not know if Bull **** boy hates God but from his post he is anti Christian which in my opinion is very close. Anime it is good to see a moderate come from the gallery to help the boy he sure could use some help. He is living in a world of rules that can not be broken and faith is for fools There is physical truth to be found but like any other info it too is part of the construct and there for would be debunked by the nay sayer no matter how true it is. I say show him no quarter as he has done to the people that have tried to be nice to him. I think it is more like this here Sir Neo -- Bull + **** = Smash Brain and he aint the sharpest tool in the thread
Isaac

[Al Swearengen]

Originally Posted by BrainSmashR

Fine, have it your way.....I have completed the rituals and earned the title of Confirmed Catholic.....if that makes me a Christian in your eyes, then so bit it. That certainly wouldn't be the first mistake made by a Christian and his/her warped sense of beliefs.



Actually Mother Nature has met her superior. Notice man tends to alter the environment to suit our needs rather than us adapting to the environment. For instance, I'm betting you are in a dry, climate controlled building today as opposed to standing in the rain.


I think that's the question you should be asking of those that bow to imaginary beings....


No, I'll never change my mind about the "sanity" of suicide....and you might be surprised to find out that Catholics aren't the only ones who consider it a sin.....Thou Shalt not kill is pretty cut and dry.

Actually Atheist is a religious term, specific to Christianity. In other words, everyone YOU know might agree, but that certainly doesn't make it true.

First of all, its not MY way, thats just the way it is. Catholics are considered Christians. Have been for quite some time now. I had nothing to do with it. Why did you bother completing the rituals to earn the title if you dont hold the doctrine to be true? Oh, I know, its because youre speaking in tenses, right? Stop with the semantics already. You've done such a thorough job of muddying the waters that its no longer clear where you stand. Congradulations on your blithering idiocy!

"Mother nature has met her superior"? Yeah right, thats why Katrina and Rita kicked our asses, because man is superior. You've been taking those smart pills again, havent ya?

As for suicide, everyone thinks its a sin, but as far as I know, only Catholics believe its unredeemable.

And "atheism" is NOT Christian specific. Look it up. "A"theistic means non theistic, just as "a"moral means not moral.

[AnimeSpirit]

Woah, we've almost crowned a new top thread again. SBLive! is jumping this month.

Anywho, I'm with Al on that one. Mother Nature is still, by far, superior to man. Not only the hurricanes, but consider the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, each devastating to mankind. Mankind is still, very much, under Mother Nature's rules.

As far as suicide goes, my views on the topic may sound somewhat harsh, but I consider suicide the coward's way out. Suicide, much of the time, is caused by a person's inability to find hope. The problem here is that we are always the source of our own hope. Our ability to stand up and keep going is, in a way, its own source of hope. Only when a person has willingly convinced him/herself that all hope is lost, does suicide become an option. This is the foolsmate.

[Al Swearengen]

Originally Posted by AnimeSpirit

Woah, we've almost crowned a new top thread again. SBLive! is jumping this month.

Anywho, I'm with Al on that one. Mother Nature is still, by far, superior to man. Not only the hurricanes, but consider the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, each devastating to mankind. Mankind is still, very much, under Mother Nature's rules.

As far as suicide goes, my views on the topic may sound somewhat harsh, but I consider suicide the coward's way out. Suicide, much of the time, is caused by a person's inability to find hope. The problem here is that we are always the source of our own hope. Our ability to stand up and keep going is, in a way, its own source of hope. Only when a person has willingly convinced him/herself that all hope is lost, does suicide become an option. This is the foolsmate.

I must disagree. Suicide is oftentimes a merciful, dignified release from needless agony and suffering and a kindness to the survivors and heirs. A person in the last stages of a chronic, terminal illness has usually reached the point where they accept and even welcome the release and relief that death brings. Not to mention the fact that the depletion of a family's savings helps absolutely nobody.