Mark. This has some very good points for discussion.

[Boris Norris]

If course it's Hitchens again.

 

[mark francis]

If course it's Hitchens again.

Hitchens was a fool. He had a great deal of faith in his erroneous opinions and had quite a following of ignorant rubes by the time he died and went to God to give an account for his sins.

 

[Boris Norris]

Hitchens was a fool. He had a great deal of faith in his erroneous opinions and had quite a following of ignorant rubes by the time he died and went to God to give an account for his sins.

He had more brains than all the USA godbotherers combined. A fool? Because he showed you exactly what a mug you are? You and your silly god. You're embarrassing.

Why would god take him?
In fact, his body went to science to be chopped up.

 

[mark francis]

He had more brains than all the USA godbotherers combined. A fool? Because he showed you exactly what a mug you are? You and your silly god. You're embarrassing.

Why would god take him?
In fact, his body went to science to be chopped up.

Secular Humanists have blind faith in their opinion that there is no life after death.

 

[Tripoli]

Secular Humanists have blind faith in their opinion that there is no life after death.

There is no life after death because there is only life and death and if you are alive after death then you are not dead. Seriously Mark try thinking

 

[Boris Norris]

Secular Humanists have blind faith in their opinion that there is no life after death.

Secular humanist have no faith there is life after death.
It's based on lack of evidence and not fear of death or superstitions.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

The belief is that of all the animals on this planet, only humans have a soul. Your dog or cat has no soul, and when they cross the rainbow, they simply <*POOF*!> vanish.

There are those that maintain that all dogs go to Heaven. I don't think I would go that far, but there are certainly a lot of very loyal, helpful and obedient dogs.

Of course, there is no proof that any creature has a soul. It is possible that some or perhaps all do. I would think that an E coli microbe would have a rather tiny soul, though.

There is a theory that the human soul weighs 21 grams. Some doctor weighed one or more dying people, as I recall. That's about .74 ounces.

21 grams experiment - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Boris Norris]

The belief is that of all the animals on this planet, only humans have a soul. Your dog or cat has no soul, and when they cross the rainbow, they simply <*POOF*!> vanish.

There are those that maintain that all dogs go to Heaven. I don't think I would go that far, but there are certainly a lot of very loyal, helpful and obedient dogs.

Of course, there is no proof that any creature has a soul. It is possible that some or perhaps all do. I would think that an E coli microbe would have a rather tiny soul, though.

There is a theory that the human soul weighs 21 grams. Some doctor weighed one or more dying people, as I recall. That's about .74 ounces.

21 grams experiment - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A soul???
Huh. Been there done that.

 

[mark francis]

Secular humanist have no faith there is life after death.
It's based on lack of evidence and not fear of death or superstitions.

Secular Humanists believe by faith, not by scientific observation, what they do about life after death.

 

[Boris Norris]

Secular Humanists believe by faith, not by scientific observation, what they do about life after death.

And faith equates to nothing. There is no afterlife.. there's no evidence of it.

 

[mark francis]

And faith equates to nothing. There is no afterlife.. there's no evidence of it.

That's what the Humanist mystics tell us.

 

[Boris Norris]

That's what the Humanist mystics tell us.

Yes and what truer words ever spoken. Like faith you believe there's a god. It's ridiculous.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

That's what the Humanist mystics tell us.

Humanists are not mystics.

You have no clue what the word "mystic" means.

 

[Boris Norris]

Humanists are not mystics.

You have no clue what the word "mystic" means.

He just hates everything left. It's all you ungodly heathens that will be piling up at hells gates.

 

[Gabriel_Bell]

And faith equates to nothing. There is no afterlife.. there's no evidence of it.

All the states that have lotteries need to have a winner once in a while. The odds against willing a Powerball lottery range from about 175,200,000 to 292,200,000. But every state knows that to keep the suckers and saps buying their almost totally worthless tickets, they need to have a winner every once in a while.
How well does God know math? Assuming he is omniscient and therefore knows everything, he must be pretty good at it. Plus, he also knows the future, so he would obviously be able to pick the perfect winner to convince people that people actually go to Heaven.
As is is, there are more people on this planet that know what a Cola Cola is and what to do with it than are aware that Jesus exists and what to make of him.
It would make perfect sense for the Know it All Deity to realize that an occasional personal appearance of God or perhaps just one person returning from salvation would greatly cause people to believe more strongly.
There was this kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Came_Back_from_Heaven

But God chose a six year old kid named MALARKEY? Does that sound like the name that an omniscient deity would choose? MALARKEY?