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Originally Posted by Sir Smash'Alot
im not talking about the occasional thing where somebody comes around and says "this argument sucks"
i mean in general
non believers are ALWAYS trying to pick apart EVERY religion, its like people have nothing else to live for, besides try and make people seem like idiots
You can follow science, which will be different in a few months, maybe years, or historical documents..
Although the bible is really corrupt from the romans, its still historical. In 50 years, those same things happened.
and apart from that, im not even saying youre wrong for trying to find the truth, but why are you gonna sit around trying to prove one group of people wrong all the time? How does it affect you if you dont believe in any sort of higher being? and after this all youre gonna be is worm food.
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Non-believers in what? I believe in almost every (legitimate) religion, including christianity, that doesn't mean I can't pick apart peoples idiotic ideas of what their religion is. If anything, destroying somebody's beliefs is a way to help them get closer to the truth, people don't usually do it just for the sake of being a jerk. And there are a lot of different understandings and doctrines within the same "religion" for example the different sects of Buddhism or different Christian groups. Obviously religions change and develop over time, people add their understandings and discoveries to the religions to try and help people, or in a lot of cases to selfishly try and help themselves.
So it is a great thing to do to point a finger at something that sounds fishy, pick it apart and completely ruin it. It's like a process of elimination, the more people rule things out, the closer everybody will get to finding the right beliefs for them. The choices will be narrower, it will be easier to see what appeals to you.
In most cases if someone is protective of their religion and doesn't want someone trying to rule their beliefs out, they get upset instead of rationally defending their beliefs. Often it becomes a matter of "well what do you know" or "arguing doesn't prove anything" or "you're going to hell anyway it doesn't matter." Even unexplainable things can at least be referred to. If a Christian says to me "I believe in God because of some experiences I have had that I think are miraculous," I will say well what are these, and if there is no good explanation for them then that's great. All that's left for them to do is develop their perceptions and beliefs and fill in the gaps.
Once all the gaps are filled in, it becomes clear that what you have constructed is the outline of an unfillable gap, and then it clicks.
But to praise and defend a doctrine just because you believe in it isn't a good thing to do. One thing you have to be careful of is religions, they are fucked up and full of misinformation and corruption.