I heard somewhere that last year it was davinci society that asked him to come out here. It makes sense in a weird way, how the homosexual group asks an extreme anti-homosexual Christian to come out here and make other Christians look like judgemental, ignorant fools.

Hopefully people are smart enough to realize that there are different levels of Christians who practice their beliefs with different levels of intensity.

Unfortunately we live in a place where there are people who are that naive to lump all Christians into the same bundle, whether they are the average, honest, non-patronizing sort or the extremist who thrusts the bible in your face everytime you say something that he or God doesn't agree with. It is extremists like this gentleman that shine a poor light on the rest of Christianity.


Mind you, while the first part is speculation, the second part is still true

I heard somewhere that last year it was davinci society that asked him to come out here.

Put quite simply, no.

I heard somewhere that last year it was davinci society that asked him to come out here. It makes sense in a weird way, how the homosexual group asks an extreme anti-homosexual Christian to come out here and make other Christians look like judgemental, ignorant fools.

Hopefully people are smart enough to realize that there are different levels of Christians who practice their beliefs with different levels of intensity.

Unfortunately we live in a place where there are people who are that naive to lump all Christians into the same bundle, whether they are the average, honest, non-patronizing sort or the extremist who thrusts the bible in your face everytime you say something that he or God doesn't agree with. It is extremists like this gentleman that shine a poor light on the rest of Christianity.


Mind you, while the first part is speculation, the second part is still true

Believe in an invisible man who watches over you: check
Believe in a zombie who came back to life after dying: check
Believe everyone else will suffer in eternal damnation: check

Yep, seems like Christians are judgmental, ignorant fools. Looks like they don't even need crazy preacher guy either - they've got it covered without him already...

I don't follow... How did your list lead to that conclusion?

Believe in an invisible man who watches over you: check
Believe in a zombie who came back to life after dying: check
Believe everyone else will suffer in eternal damnation: check

Yep, seems like Christians are judgmental, ignorant fools. Looks like they don't even need crazy preacher guy either - they've got it covered without him already...

I won't lower myself to the level of the crazy preacher guy and proclaim that you're wrong and that you'll spend eternity in damnation, but rather respectfully disagree. Sometimes you don't have to see something in order to believe it, but rather have faith that it's there. Take gravity, for example. You don't see it, but you see evidence of it. When you jump out of a plane (willingly and with a parachute) you have faith that you're going to fall towards the earth rather than shooting up into space. When you pull the cord, you have faith that the air around you (also not visible) will catch in the parachute and slow your decent significantly, thus bringing you safely to the ground. You may ask me, what evidence I see, and I see everything as evidence. You may find it a complete coincidence that we are the correct distance from the sun, the air is the right combination of gases, our bodies function successfully in our environments, but I see a higher design. I'm not saying that I believe in the whole "God created man and the earth in 7 days" scenario, but I'm saying that someone might have pushed development in the right direction.

Anyway, I've got other shit I gotta do

Long story short, I have my faith in a supreme being (God)
You have your faith in... not God... and that's fine by me, but don't insult me because of my views.

I won't lower myself to the level of the crazy preacher guy and proclaim that you're wrong and that you'll spend eternity in damnation, but rather respectfully disagree. Sometimes you don't have to see something in order to believe it, but rather have faith that it's there. Take gravity, for example. You don't see it, but you see evidence of it. When you jump out of a plane (willingly and with a parachute) you have faith that you're going to fall towards the earth rather than shooting up into space. When you pull the cord, you have faith that the air around you (also not visible) will catch in the parachute and slow your decent significantly, thus bringing you safely to the ground. You may ask me, what evidence I see, and I see everything as evidence. You may find it a complete coincidence that we are the correct distance from the sun, the air is the right combination of gases, our bodies function successfully in our environments, but I see a higher design. I'm not saying that I believe in the whole "God created man and the earth in 7 days" scenario, but I'm saying that someone might have pushed development in the right direction.

Anyway, I've got other shit I gotta do

Long story short, I have my faith in a supreme being (God)
You have your faith in... not God... and that's fine by me, but don't insult me because of my views.

I never understood where the argument came from that if you cannot prove or disprove something that gives people the right to believe it anyway. You aren't crazy as long as enough people believe with you. Otherwise you are a cult and just insane. I don't know why people cant believe in themselves to do good things.

Damn! In my philosophy class we talked about this... but basically, the counter is something along the lines of "If there were a planet that supported life, then that planet would have life on it." Well, Earth supports life, so I'm not surprised to find life on it.