QUOTE(Shapechanger @ Aug 17 2006, 01:07 AM)
So drawn into this intricate web of lies they are that nothing gets through to them. Yet how did they get so deep into this web? Was it their parents? A desperate want and need of an afterlife? Maybe they have to believe they're part of some grander scheme of the universe? I don't know...
Quite interesting question. I, for example, can't answer it. When I was asked "Why do you believe in God", I told "My life experience and my perception of the world made me think that God exists". I think it's kinda unexplainable, like love...
QUOTE(Shapechanger @ Aug 17 2006, 01:07 AM)
Today, I found myself in an arguement with the most hardcore zealot I have ever met. He dismissed all science as either "lies" or "hoaxes" employed by the devil to lead us off the path of God.
That person was either extremely stubborn, or stupid.
QUOTE(Shapechanger @ Aug 17 2006, 01:07 AM)
The first arguement was such - He stated that fossils of sea creatures found in high altitude locations was undeniable proof that the story of Noah's Ark had occured on this Earth. To this, I responded that the world was almost, if not completely, sumberged during the Ice Age, because water expands when frozen. To this he responds that evolutionaries make up all sorts of crap to hide themselves from God, completely dodging a logical counter to my explanation.
I believe that dinosaurs exist, and I believe that God exists. Those two things do not "disproove" eachother for me.
QUOTE(Shapechanger @ Aug 17 2006, 01:07 AM)
Later, he asked me if I believed in Evolution, to which I replied "Yes". He then asked me if I believed all life on Earth started as a single cell, to which I also said yes. He then asked me how that single cell changed into the life that is on Earth today, so I started from the basics, explaining how each generation of said cell might have mutations, for better or for worse. He said he didn't believe in mutations and such, so I asked him if he had ever taken a basic biology class. He said yes, but also that he didn't believe a word of it. He asked me why those sorts of mutations didn't occur anymore, to which I pointed out that flies, do in fact, mutate very often. He simply acted like I didn't exist, and talked with somebody else.
Dumb or stubborn, no doubt.
QUOTE(Shapechanger @ Aug 17 2006, 01:07 AM)
Now, obviously I whooped his ass in this arguement, but I simply cannot understand why people would stand unwavering in the face of any evidence I throw at them. How does their mind work? I'm starting to think that religion is a defect of the mind, honestly, when I see people like this so tightly wrapped around their lies that they see no truth whatsoever. All science is a lie? A hoax? How could somebody be this stupid?
I have met only one person approx. like that in my life. He denies everything that is not like him. He is stupid, and evil. He laughs at any other music style besides the one he listens to, he laughs at anything he does not do. (Quite funny, now he called all people who chat in the i-net "whores", but started chatting himself in about a year after that).
QUOTE(Shapechanger @ Aug 17 2006, 01:07 AM)
Now if you are a Christian, fine. Most Christians accept most science, though. If a Christian is reasonable, I have nothing against them. But the person I argued with earlier today was nothing short of a complete moron.
I think your argument with him was totally not connected to God, or religion. He was dumb/stubborn, so he would "disproove" anything you say with any crap that first comes into his not very bright head.
People are different. You just met such a moron that happened to believe in God. If he would believe in mushroom people, he would use them as the source of his arguments.