Going to make me work on this one I see.
Wrong; men using God for their own purposes doesn't constitute extremism. Also refer to my previous post about what I think extremism should be.
It was a time when people would kill you for not following the Bible how that isn't extremist behavior is beyond me. If your ignoring what an extremist is in favor of your own happy go lucky definition I'm sorry but that simply fails.
Emotional responses are how reality is generally judged.
Yes because we all know science is based on emotion bias and not objective evidence. If you can't tell I'm being sarcastic.
Emotions are subjective, reality is based on objective observations.
Oh, and your other responses to Beast on this matter.
Explain to me the last time you attempted to use science to determine why you love someone?
First of all this is a subjective matter unlike say humming birds can fly. Why do we love someone is likely an evolutionary response. Those of us capable of forming deep emotional bonds with one another increased there chances of survival and reproduction So this trait got passed on. But why one person over another such as in finding a mate? Well again certain traits would be desirable over others. The decision of one trait over another is based on both predetermined desires and desires developed through experience. As such someone with a reasonable number of those traits causes the brain to produce certain chemical responses.
According to pure logic the best way to reduce the hunger problem is to kill excess people; yet, emotionally, it's wrong.
When one is hungry the most logical response to to search for food. Extend this further to a group mentality and you have a number of those in that group looking for food for everyone as a survival tactic. As such it would have been counter intuitive to the survival of the species to just kill off the hungry ones.
For others yes but as far as my personal belief goes my own experiences are good enough for me.
That's quite obvious but my point still stands.
For the record Jesus didn't benefit from Christianity like L. Ron Hubbard did from Scientology which is a huge difference between the two.
Doesn't really matter for the point being made that it also experiences opposition. If your going to argue that Christianity experience more then other religions here that is reasonable considering the vast majority of Christians here compared to the other religions.
Where you asking where Christianity is illegal?
First off we can eliminate the obvious countries on that list that are run as extremist religious countries of other faiths. Since I already said besides such places. As for some of the others, like it or not Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity. Given that site lists places such as Cuba which is primarily Catholic as being anti Christian, this leaves me in suspect of the validity of this list.
For the general Christian who spreads their faith they practice through the mantra "Teach the faith always use words only when necessary" in other words act in a way that people question; that differs positively from society so they ask you whats going on then you explain what you believe after they have approached you.
Time to play every apologists favorite game Goalpost Moving.
Can't say I have really seen the casual Christian really follow the part of spreading the word. Most of the time at least in my experience it's more of a live and let live attitude for the most part. However this is not the case as you move further up on the spectrum. You almost seem to be trying to imply that just because the low end spectrum of this religion doesn't do it that it doesn't occur in the way I said in the religion.
How I feel about people saying God doesn't exist.
Present this evidence for examination then. So far every time someone has asked for proof that God exists it been given the run around or came back to "well I believe he exists so he exists" answer. Keep in mind saying "things exist proves God exists" is not proof for God existing only for things existing. We've been over that one already.
Yes because not believing in something (if it's true) makes it go away..
Your right if Christianity is true and God is as petty as he seems in the Bible us non believers will have a very toasty afterlife. But given the likely hood of it being true it's not something to worry about. There is an equal chance we are both wrong and Islam is the right answer. In that case we can both enjoy among other tortures being smashed in the face with a hammer for eternity.
Can't considering the fact that a perfect translation of the original language can't be created so updates are needed constantly.
Your God could divinely inspire the entire thing but couldn't divinely inspire an accurate translation of it for later use?
Actually... It does. The power of the human mind is amazing to say the least.
Let's test this. Disbelieve the screw drive on my desk out of existence.
I think if someone cared to try and figure it out, there would be as much evidence of faith as there is of gravity.
Considering the very definition of faith is believing without proof how does that work?
We know the existence of hundreds of planets because of their gravitational effects on known space bodies. We know God through his effects on everyday life.
We have yet to conclusively find anything that can be directly pointed to "God did it". In fact most things have been explained with other more likely possibilities moving Gods effects on us and the world to ever grow smaller.
Defining something with itself? That's brilliant.
I really hate when dictionaries do that.
