Komodo dragons are big ugly lizards. I mean real dragons, firebreathing, winged beasts of myth and legend. Also note I said I believe in them. Not I believe they are real.
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As for the religion debate:
Monotheists win the "security/feel-good" category.
Atheists win the "logic/reason" category.
Pagans win the "fun" category.
While I know you're joking. I'm just reacting to this post because I can.
You seem to be confusing monetheism with the tradisionalist/ fundamentalist intrepretations of modern religions.
I've known religious people that put their lives in danger for their beliefs, in order to do what they believed was the right thing to do.
I've read/ met Atheists that failed to make any sense, and so on. (
Might even have some of these on this very forum)
Third, I've read texts from Greek philospophers(ie paganistic; or at least that's the context that word was used in) that thrumph both of the above.
13 NInjas.
13.
I consider myself an atheist, but if somehow (a) god(s) were proven tomorrow, if something supernatural were to be proven tomorrow, I'd say "Sure, I believe in him."
I just wouldn't worship him. Guy would have to be a world-class asshole, considering the world as it is. I might even contemplate finding a lawyer to file a class-action lawsuit against him. Why, with all the deaths and disasters pinned on "Act of God" already, that alone would be a cinch.
... I wonder, if capital-g God exists, that might mean Hell exists. Which means we might be able to get there, and rescue all the people there. Which would pretty much make everything humans have ever done worth having been done.
And it would be just -fascinating!- to watch science unravel him into an explained phenomenon, including how all the stuff we know now as godless phenomenon would be explained with god(s) in the picture.
I consider myself a Christian. And if somehow it was proven tomorrow that God/ Jezus or even most of the saints do/don't exist, I wouldn't even care(To be fair, I would from a scientific point of view). Wherether God does or does not exist does not matter. Besides, the Christian God is not a powerfull, evil smiting one. He got himself nailed to a cross in his own book, for example.
EDIt: 17 NINjas, still counting.
Anyway, as awesome as the screenplay Descan's post made me think of is, can we kindly move onto something that isn't religious debate please?
Oi, religious debates are fun as long as they don't inflame.
Why Christianity didn't pull a roman and take all the badass bits of Greek mythology baffles me. I mean, come on. I would have actually gone to church if were being preached to about Hercules and the Illiad.
Hah... I may have been a bit more interested if my catholic school did teach about Hercules and the other stuff. That Hercules show on the sci-fi channel was one of the best show for me as a kid.
I'm pretty sure they did, at least a bit. It's just that not all the morals fit with those of the Bible. Sure, could adjust them and such, but...
Besides, let's not forget that the Bible(at least the NT) was made in some Concilium in Rome by the church's leaders 1500 years ago.
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