Why Do We Pander To Rubbish Like This?

[Deskdiary]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7565499/Victorian-priest-poet-Cardinal-Newman-canonised-historic-ceremony-Vatican.html

You'd like to think, in 2019, that people had grown-up and realised what total rubbish religion is.

In 2013 an American had a torn placenta and prayed to Cardinal John Henry Newman to stop the bleeding - and lo and behold, the bleeding stopped.

That's what people in the real world with a grasp of reality call a coincidence.

I wish religionists would sometimes consider what they think objectively. If they did you'd hope they'd have an epiphany and realise they're being ridiculous.

I genuinely believe that people who believe in god and heaven and so on have a form of mental illness. If I swore blind in the existence of leprachauns, people would quite rightly question my sanity....and yet even though there's as much proof in the existence of god (i.e, NONE), were meant to take their nuttery seriously and respect it.

Madness.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Don't think anyone panders to 'rubbish like this' . You either believe or you don't, but should respect those who do and not accuse them of mental health issues. Maybe you have a problem?

[Mamyalynne]

I find the best way is to shrug off the jibes and jeers of mental illness or cultlike attributes.
If it makes them feel better then they deserve some pity.

[Deskdiary]

I believe in god (we're meant to accept in the belief and respect it).

I believe in leprachauns (literally as much proof in their existence as in god - but I'd be ridiculed).

Surely you can see the absurdity?

[Mamyalynne]

I wouldn't ridicule your belief in Leprechauns.

[ummmm]

I can't believe anyone is suggesting leprechauns are not real!

[Mamyalynne]

The World is made of all sorts, room for us all.

[ummmm]

Yep...I was reading about a lady who was planning on marrying an aeroplane earlier.

[Mamyalynne]

Gets you to the end of the rainbow quicker I suppose.

[Theland]

Throwaway comments are cheap and thoughtless, and lack a considered account of the big questions.

[naomi24]

Theland to Deskdiary, //If you *** off believers, you have to come up with an alternative theory of the existence of the universe, the beginning of life, and proof of evolution.//

No … he doesn’t. You’re the one claiming to know the answers, Theland, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where’s yours?

//If there was a plausible explanation for the three questions I posed above, that would disturb my faith so do you have any?//

You can hardly claim your explanation is plausible, Theland. When was attributing the unknown to the unknown ever plausible?

[Mamyalynne]

I'd rather make lighthearted throwaway comments than ridicule someone's faith Theland - I am beholden to no one to answer the big question - whatever that is.

I live my life in a good honest way and sleep with a clear conscience.

[Theland]

Hi Naomi, welcome back. Hope you managed to progress Brexit whilst out of the country with Mon Sewer Barnpot.

Anyway, evidence?
Yes, the universe for starters.
Or do you know better?

[naomi24]

The universe is evidence? How?

[Theland]

God or another cause.
What cause?

[naomi24]

I'll ask again. Where's your evidence, Theland? Convince me.

[Theland]

Oh Naomi, so late and time short.
Gladly engage when I have better time to do this subject justice.
Respectfully.

[SparklyKid]

god only exists in the minds of the deluded.

[vulcan42]

Theland, your "evidence" seems to consist of " If you can't prove to my satisfaction there is no God then God must be the answer".

[Mamyalynne]

It's certainly not been the case in my life and the atheists I have met but many of the AB atheists are bar room psychiatrists and rude ones at that.

Conversational skills of a beermat.

[naomi24]

How charming mamyalynne.

Theland’s stuck again.