Agreed, tbh. Same with Hagee and all the other mega-Church ministers. You get to take 10% of their income while promising them something (heaven) that doesn't exist. It's the most brilliant ponzi scheme of all time
Agreed, tbh. Same with Hagee and all the other mega-Church ministers. You get to take 10% of their income while promising them something (heaven) that doesn't exist. It's the most brilliant ponzi scheme of all time
I don't know if it's a ponzi scheme, I would like to believe that Heaven does exist...
Joseph Smith was in quoted saying, "If you wanna be rich, start a religion" yet Mormons still believe he was some sort of prophet
.....but Karma is real.
not sure if serious
Me too, but I'm not 9
rofl yeah I'd also like to believe in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, etc.
I know a guy on the SS who gives everything he has to his church..his money, his time, his concern..but because he doesn't have the 'presentation' like Hagee or Olsteen he lives like a pauper....
You "would like"; therefore it's true?
I guess that is one way of looking at it, but beliefs aren't so easy to understand...unlike the tooth fairy or Santa Clause...religion can lead to great things like people turning themselves around or even whole societies believing that they can succeed because they have the grace of God... , all of America thinks that way...
That worked really well in 2000 and 2004 when America made George Bush a two term president because he has god behind him.
I don't know whether it definitely does or doesn't, do you?
The burden rests on you to prove it does exist, not the other way around.
If your waiting around for proof then your gonna have a long wait.....that's why they call it faith...
And that's why they have to use some really inspiring cliche word like "faith" to justify believing in something for no logical reason whatsoever.
How did that "faith" work out for America when it voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004? Inquiring minds want to know since you decided to use America as an example of religion doing good things.
Philosopher Paul Chamberlain says it is logically erroneous to assert that positive truth claims bear a burden of proof while negative truth claims do not.[11] He says that all truth claims bear a burden of proof, and that like Mother Goose and the tooth fairy, the teapot bears the greater burden not because of its negativity, but because of its triviality, arguing that "When we subs ute normal, serious characters such as Plato, Nero, Winston Churchill, or George Washington in place of these fictional characters, it becomes clear that anyone denying the existence of these figures has a burden of proof equal to, or in some cases greater than, the person claiming they do exist."
..Because religion has been misused for all of its existence...it doesn't make it inherently badHow did that "faith" work out for America when it voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004? Inquiring minds want to know since you decided to use America as an example of religion doing good things.
So Spaghetti Monster is god. Prove me wrong.
So you're admitting it had catastrophic effects enabling someone who should have never been near the white house to become president, glad we agree there.
lol qualifying how religion is "used" and "misused"
lolbut it inspires stupid pathetic people who need a reason to live
..it's proven wrong by its very trivialness.....Christianity, as well as other religions aren't so trivial....
WTF is trivial about our lord and creator?
...it also gives some people purpose and hope....and that is a benefit to society as a whole...but it inspires stupid pathetic people who need a reason to live
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