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Atheists & Agnostics

Warpy

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14. Logic and belief have nothing to do with each other

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Original post)

Fri Aug 4, 2023, 05:14 PM

Aug 2023

My problem is a fully functional bullshit detector. Even when I was a kid, the crap I heard in Catholic school pinned it.

Of course, I am also logical, the A in symbolic logic (heavy on the Lewis Carroll) proves it. Still, the bullshit detector prevents me from being religious. I just can't do it.

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I am too logical to understand Christians. [View all] Ferrets are Cool Aug 2023 OP

Amen! vishnura Aug 2023 #1

Ah, but God answers all prayers. Glorfindel Aug 2023 #2

welcome to my world, lol gay texan Aug 2023 #3

but, but, but,,,,, KarenS Aug 2023 #4

Exactly Ferrets are Cool Aug 2023 #15

A huge part of the problem is that proto-orthodoxy and then Orthodoxy took writings by Gnostics Karadeniz Aug 2023 #5

Gobbledegook (sp?) NoRethugFriends Aug 2023 #6

This Ferrets are Cool Aug 2023 #16

Oh, but god works in strange ways. That was the BS they used to tell me. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2023 #7

"..god works in strange ways." In other words, shit happens. n/t spike jones Aug 2023 #8

Yep!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2023 #10

If god is omniscient... PJMcK Aug 2023 #9

I never understood their prayers because it was always "God, do this. Do that. Do this" demigoddess Aug 2023 #11

God sent His only Son to walk among us and show us The Way. Midnight Writer Aug 2023 #12

LOL Ferrets are Cool Aug 2023 #17

Archaic animal sacrifices are at the cultural heart of a lot of the modern beliefs of Christianity Proud to be Woke Aug 2023 #13

Communion is a remnant of blood sacrifice. The wafer is transformed to the Flesh of Christ, Midnight Writer Aug 2023 #19

Logic and belief have nothing to do with each other Warpy Aug 2023 #14

Nor can I warpy, nor can i. Ferrets are Cool Aug 2023 #18