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Muramasa89
Hard. I believe in no higher entity, or whatever you wish to call God.
In that case, your beliefs take as much faith as anybody else's. Why argue about theirs?
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No. Too many times I've had people blurt out that Christianity (oddly I haven't had this from any other religion) is correct, and the only way you should live.
How many other religions have you been exposed to? How many times have you "had people blurt out that" their religious beliefs are correct, no matter what they are?
Of course people think that their beliefs are correct. Everybody does. Nobody says, "well I know this to be false, but I'll believe it anyway".
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Okay; I get the point that you believe that. But I couldn't give a crap. Leave me alone. Yet they persist.
Just like you come into this thread and discuss your beliefs. How terrible of people to discuss their beliefs! And how utterly vicious of them to want others to share those beliefs!
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I never mentioned guns. There are many forceful ways, and don't necessarily require harming a/the person. Maybe force was the wrong word.
Ya think? I've never had anybody "force" me to listen to their religious beliefs -- except, of course, for Evolutionism.
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But still, they come to your door as you said, and they talk about God. Maybe, just maybe, they don't care? Rather than trying to convert everybody, just let them live their lives.
... You're serious, aren't you? Wow, that's just ... sad. I'll try to make this simple. Everybody thinks that their own beliefs are correct. Everybody would like others to hold the same beliefs. This is especially true when those beliefs include one of a highly unpleasant eternal life for those who don't hold the same beliefs. They're trying to help you, and all you can do is bitch that they make you go through the inconvenience of answering your parents' door.
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If they wanted to join your religion, they'd seek YOU out.
Of course -- because every one of the nearly seven billion people in the world knows full details of every religious belief. I mean, there's just no need to teach anybody anything, since if they wanted to learn it, they'd teach themselves!
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Again, a problem with them putting their faith upon a person who perhaps might just want to be an Atheist?
They're telling you about their own beliefs and wanting you to learn more about them and believe them as well. They're not forcing you to do anything -- not even to listen to what they have to say. If you want to be arrogant in your ignorance and refuse to listen to the beliefs of others (while still calling those others "closed-minded", undoubtedly), that's your call, but don't expect to never be called out on your hypocrisy.
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Put it this way, since you used a racial example:
You throw racist comments; you deserve the same back. Karma, effectively.
Except that people don't choose to be certain races and can't convert to another. The racial analogy worked for one situation, but completely fails in your attempted usage. Not only that, but also, you are arguing that it's fine to throw racist comments and insults back at somebody who merely discusses their own race.
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Did you read my post? You cannot prove someone's faith. So of course I have a problem, with BOTH proving and disproving.
So you're admitting a lack of support for your beliefs. This reveals your ignorance of religion and petty, childish hatred of it as exactly what it is.
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Please. Stop using derogatory terms as an argument. You get nowhere.
Yet, I haven't stopped, nor will I. Some people here know that I call many people "kid", depending on the situation. Deal with it.
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And you do not know my age. So don't assume stuff.
Of course -- because the lack of maturity and intellect in your posts, along with the "89" in your username, point to absolutely nothing. Besides, as I have explained to others before, I use "kid" as a reference to maturity, not as to how many years one has spent on this earth.
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My point is valid, you cannot be right or wrong with religion (such as proving or disproving) since it is a matter of what you believe.
Then quit bitching about people who believe differently than you. You can have a problem with people discussing their religious beliefs or you can not, but it's hypocritical to only have a problem with people discussing beliefs that you don't share.
