Your ignorance of the historical and factual basis of the Christian faith is profound, and your arguments, self-perceived as novel and enlightened, are hoary and thoroughly refuted countless times for the past 2000 years, by intellectual giants who have no peer in today’s smug, shallow postmodern “intellectualism.”

It really is in your best interest not to spout such nonsense in public — you really end up looking like a complete fool.

I could go on arguing all the same points over and over, the same points atheists always defend because when you deal with people of faith, faith has only given them so much ammunition before they start projecting hate speech at your questioning their logic.

So really, no matter what a theist says, it comes from the basis of fallacy and belief in something with no verifiable existence. It’s the mentality that has been used for thousands of years; explaining what man cannot explain. The existence of ourselves is the ultimate challenge as well. Theists claim that because they don’t understand our physical explanations that are theories, based on doubt, require the same type of faith as believing a book with a cross on it, because it’s a book with a cross on it.

I mentioned doubt; the area where science does it’s investigations, coming up with explanations based on hypothesis and fact finding. Religion dwells in the are of certainty, that what is written is what is and there is no dissent from that path, even when some of the stories run toe to toe with science. The Catholic church is a beautiful, shining example of denouncing others based on preconstructed beliefs, and writing off some of the most intelligent minds to ever grace the earth. Just reference Martin Luther for the church being wrong about internal issues, then consider the many philosophers who were denounced and discarded by the church, only to have their wisdom recognized centuries later.

The sooner theists, from whatever faith, recognize religion for the social machinery it is, take the writings as inspiration and not ultimate truth, and think for themselves, the sooner our world will actually approach peace, and not fight over who is the most peaceful by blowing one another up.

“There is nothing outside the man which going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man…For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts and acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride ad foolishness. All thesee evil things proceed from within and defile the man.” Mark 7:15, 21-23

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jer. 17:9

Our sinfulness is part of our inherent nature. We are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners.

How can each sinner choose morality for himself if he has a sinful nature? He can’t.

God Bless.